The fourth in the City of Devils series, following City of Devils, Fifty Feet of Trouble, and Wolfman Confidential.
A Stitch in Crime provides examples of:
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Giant ants are treated like the cattle of this world.
- Fantastic Racism: Humans are the downtrodden minority. Monsters call us "meatsticks."
- Genre-Busting: It's a noir plot, there are monsters from horror fiction, it's urban and fantastic, and it's a comedy.
- Headless Horseman: Headless Horsemen are prominent in this installment, running "rantches" of giant ants.
- Hulk Speak: The male meat golems communicate entirely in mostly monosyllabic, two-word sentences. The female meat golems can't speak at all, and communicate mostly with facial expressions, gestures, and writing.
- Mix-and-Match Man: Jane's eyes are two wildly different colors, seeing as they came from two different people.
- Monster Mash: The series features vampires, zombies, banshees, goblins, witches, werewolves, gremlins, crawling eyes, meat golems, mummies, robots, doppelgangers, phantoms, ghosts, killer vegetables, ogres, sirens, gill men, bug-eyed monsters, and many, many more.
- Quest for Identity: The driving force behind Jane's actions; to find out more about the women she was made from, and to reconcile them with who she is now.
