Why did Conan Doyle kill his character Sherlock Holmes at the height of their popularity? What really happened during the sensational disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926? Which author died just days before his most famous work was published, which was to change the world of crime fiction forever? This graphic novel gets to the bottom of these and countless other questions that keep crime fans all over the world awake. Genre expert Claire Caland unfolds the story of the most successful genre of our time, illustrated by Sandrine Kerion with razor-sharp realism. Is the crime novel the greatest of all arts, as James Ellroy once claimed? The key to this question could lie in this non-fiction comic - but the investigation is up to you! With a foreword by the French bestselling author Franck Thilliez.