Uses fin de siecle British crime narrative to explore a central question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? This study examines popular literary and cinematic culture of the fin de siecle era - roughly 1880 to 1914.

By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, "Framed "offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siecle British crime narrative