1. Introduction PART I: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: WHAT MAKES A SERIES?2. Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender; Jon Blandford3. The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction; Federico Pagello4. 'More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection'; Carolina Miranda5. Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire, and the effet de collection; Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Alistair Rolls6. Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir; Pim Higginson7. Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series; Nick Heffernan8. The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy's LA Quartet Series; Steven PowellPART II: AS TIME GOES BY: PROGRESSING THE SERIES9. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series; Brittain Bright10. Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: the Feminism of Sara Paretsky; Sabine Vanacker11. From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund's Crime Series; Kerstin Bergman12. It's All One Book. It's All One World: George Pelecanos's Washington DC; Eduardo Obradó13. Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulæ of Crime Fiction; Nicoletta Vallorani14. The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond; Anna Pasolini15. Andrea Camilleri's Imaginary Vigàta, Between Formula and Innovation; Barbara PezzottiPART III: TRANPOSITION, IMITATION, INNOVATION16. Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities; Maysaa Jaber17. Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: the Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher; Rachel Franks and Donna Lee Brien18. From flâneur to traceur?: Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI's Paris; Jean Anderson19. The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia's Peter Temple and Shane Maloney; Carolyn Beasley20.'She's pretty hardboiled, huh?' Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars; Taryn Norman21. 'Exspecta Inexspectata': The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid; Detective Series for Young Readers; Lucy AndrewBibliography.