Detective Fiction

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Narratives of Detection and the Sciences of History

Chapter 1: What is Detective Fiction?

Chapter 2: Detection and the Historical Sciences: Two Locked Rooms and Two Keys to Unlock Them

Part II: The Rise of Detective Fiction and the Birth of Detection

Chapter 3: From Rogues to Ratiocination

Casebook 1: The Ape and the Aristocrat

Chapter 4: From Detectives to Detection

Casebook 2: The Scientific Detective's Bohemian Soul

Chapter 5: From Holmes to the Golden Age

Casebook 3: Of War and Wimsey

Chapter 6: Hard-Boiled Detection

Casebook 4: No Game for Knights

Chapter 7: Cold War, Cops and Counterculture

Epilogue: The End of History?

Works Cited

Index