Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper and Novel -- Chapter 2 - Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form -- Chapter 3 - Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein -- Chapter 4 - Victorian Courthouse Structures, The Pickwick Papers -- Chapter 5 - Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence -- Chapter 6 - The Newgate Novel and the Advent of Detective Fiction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.