Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Crime Culture and Modernity -- Part I: Breaking Boundaries: Games, Art and the Image -- 1. Playing Dead: Crime as a Social System -- 2. Psychopathology as a Game: J. G. Ballard and Conceptual Crime -- 3. Crime, Abjection, Transgression and the Image -- Part II: Revisiting Noir -- 4. The Female Side of Crime: Film Noir's Femme Fatale and the Dark Side of Modernity -- 5. Post-War American Noir: Confronting Fordism -- Part III: Vixens and Victims: Criminal Femininities -- 6. Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: The Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing -- 7. Contemporary African American Women's Crime and Mystery Novels -- Part IV: Angels of Death: Criminal Masculinities -- 8. Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A -- 9. The Angel of Death: Targeting the Hitman -- Part V: Reading the Criminal Other -- 10. Risk Management: Frank Abagnale, Jr, and the Shadowing of Pleasure -- 11. 'Police Thy Neighbour': Crime Culture and the Rear Window Paradigm -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.