Crime Stories As Cautionary Tales
Crime Fiction And Policing
The Golden Age To The Present
Mystery And Detective Fiction
Retracing The Steps: The Origins Of Mystery Fiction
Reasoning Machines: The Figure Of The Amateur Detective
Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters To Murder
Maintaining Social Order And The Status Quo
Murder For A Reason: Origins And Development
A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero
Last Chances And New Beginnings: The Myth Of The Frontier
Mean Streets And Rats' Alleys: Modernity And The City
Fallen Angels: Appropriation Of The Hard-Boiled Mode
Thin Blue Lines: Fiction As Ideological State Apparatus
Private Eye To Public Eye: The Development Of The Procedural
Textual Investigations: Characteristics Of The Procedural
Social Placebo: The Magic Bullet Of Procedural Reassurance
Arrested Developments: Appropriations Of The Procedural
Outlining The Crime Thriller
The Anti-Conspiracy Thriller
Writing History And Interpreting The Past
Crime, History, And Realism
The Case Of The Name Of The Rose
Postmodernism And The Anti-Detective Novel.
