Detective FictionISBN: 978-0-7456-2942-1
Paperback
280 pages
September 2005, Polity
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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