The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction

<div>1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks,&nbsp;Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew.- 2. “One Fixed Point in a Changing Age”: Reframing the Sidekick,&nbsp;Michelle D. Miranda.- 3. “Passed by unnoticed”: Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone,&nbsp;Oriah Amit.- 4.&nbsp;“…always with the Inspector”: The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian ‘Detective Literature’, 1845-1887,&nbsp;Samuel Saunders.- 5.&nbsp;“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson”: Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson,&nbsp;Annette Wren.- 6. “A Look of Doglike Devotion’”: Hercule Poirot’s Stooges and Foils’,&nbsp;J. C. Bernthal.- 7.&nbsp;Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels,&nbsp;Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan.- 8. “Pretty, but not so pretty…”: Marlowe’s Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction,&nbsp;Alexander Howe.- 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins Mysteries,&nbsp;Nathan Ashman.- 10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family,&nbsp;Kwasu Tembo.-&nbsp;11. “I’m gonna be the best friend you could ever hope for—and the worst enemy you could ever imagine.”: Frank Miller’s All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative,&nbsp;Lucy Andrew.-&nbsp;12. “World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives”: Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexter’s Sidekicks,&nbsp;David Bishop.- 13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits: Otherness in the Wells and Wong series,&nbsp;Alice Nuttall.- 14. Sherlock’s Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick,&nbsp;Dominique Gracia.</div>