Once an influential figure of Victorian popular literature, Catherine Crowe has now fallen into obscurity for modern readers outside a small circle of academics. Given that Crowe's novels are little known to modern-day audiences, Heholt provides a synopsis of Crowe's five novels as part of the introduction. As such, Heholt argues, Crowe's "generic hybridity should initiate new assessments of genres, such as the Newgate novel, Sensation fiction, and the mysteries tradition" (19). [Extracted from the article]