Section 5, dealing only with 2000 to 2017, nevertheless describes the largest number of authors and novels of any section, and shows how police detectives, for long nationally unpopular, finally become, in both genders, a major element in what is now a widely recognised, socially explorative and strong-selling genre. Having published in "The Mysteries of the Cities" (2012) a chapter on George Reynolds’ "The Mysteries of London" (1844-48), Knight grew increasingly interested in this hugely popular author of thirty-six novels, several of them multi-volume, and over twenty million words of fiction in all. Reynolds has been almost completely ignored by English literary criticism, in part because of his popular status, but also because of his politics: he was a Chartist and general supporter of the lower social orders, especially seeking their improved education. Much disliked by Dickens, largely for his radicalism, he in return called Dickens an `aristocratic lickspittle’. Literary criticism has evidently shared hostility to his politics and popular orientation and he has hardly ever been discussed or even mentioned in critical surveys. There have in recent years been some essays written on him, but this book, surveying and analysing all of Reynolds novels and novellas, is the first written on this remarkably overlooked and decidedly important author. Knight has appeared in the media many times, producing reviews for newspapers, magazines and radio, including for ten years from the mid-1970s a monthly column in The Sydney Morning Herald on crime fiction. He has also written radio reviews and features and has appeared on Melvyn Bragg's BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time", discussing Robin Hood, Merlin, and the legend of the Fisher King, as well as on the 2006 BBC television production "World of Robin Hood", with Jonathan Ross. He has done a range of interviews on "The Politics of Myth" (2015). He received media attention across the world in 1999 through his commentary in London's "The Sunday Times" relating to gender roles in the Robin Hood legend, which some elements of the media took to be evidence that Robin Hood was gay.