Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her previous books include Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction: DCI Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Deep Dead: Detective Fiction and Archaeology.- Chapter 3: The tongue is a fire: Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver Novels.- Chapter 4: The Body in the Library: Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Sarah Caudwell.- Chapter 5: Cover Her Face: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama.- Chapter 6: Historic Scotland: Val McDermid's Cold Cases.- Chapter 7: Crime at Christmas.- Chapter 8: Detecting the Dead.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.