Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Edinburgh -- 'The map that engenders the territory'? Rethinking Ian Rankin's Edinburgh -- Corralling Crime in Cardiff's Tiger Bay -- Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin -- From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction -- Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenesand the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar -- The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown's Religious Thrillers -- A Tale of Three Cities: Megalopolitan Mysteries of the 1840s -- Conclusion -- Index.