the scholarly U.S. periodical Maledicta (Waukesha, Wisconsin); and, finally, a 1986 Penguin edition (in the "Classic Crime" series), which also includes the Afterword of the 1981 edition (). Read on Francis Iles's Malice Aforethought (1931) is a psychological thriller where the identity of the murderer is revealed right at the beginning of the novel and where the reader is granted insight into the workings of a criminal mind. Freeman Wills Crofts's The 12.30 from Croydon (1934) is written in a similar vein, with the protagonist awaiting trial but unable to assess his chances of being acquitted. Raymond Postgate's Verdict of Twelve (1940) is a mystery novel that draws on the author's socialist beliefs to set crime, detection and punishment within a broader social and economic context. Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) looks behind the scenes of the film industry and of individual people working in that business in Hollywood rather than England. Ben Elton's Dead Famous (2001) is another example of a story where a murder is captured on film while the identity of the perpetrator remains in the dark, here in a late 20th-century Big Brother-type reality television setting. 1937 British novels Crime novels Victor Gollancz Ltd books 1937 debut novels