Theory and practice of classic detective fiction

Abstract

Preface Theoretical Approaches to the Genre Canonization, Modern Literature, and the Detective Story by John G. Cawelti Shamus-a-um: Having the Quality of a Classical Detective by Timothy W. Boyd and Carolyn Higbie Ideal Helpmate: Detective Character as (Fictional) Object and Ideal Imago by Timothy R. Prchal Politics of Secrecy and Publicity: Functions of Hidden Stories in Some Recent British Mystery Fiction by Peter Huhn Not so Much Whodunnit as Whoizzit: Margaret Millar's Command of a Metonymic Sub-Genre by Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson Parody and Detective Fiction by Janice Mant The Game's Afoot: Predecessors and Pursuits of a Postmodern Detective, by Kathleen Belin Owen Agatha Christie Novels and British Detective Fiction Christie's Narrative Games by Robert Merrill It Was the Mark of Cain: Agatha Christie and the Murder of the Mystery by Robin Woods Impossible Murderers: Agatha Christie and the Community of Readers by Ina Rae Hark The Daughters of His Manhood: Christie and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by Mary Anne Ackershoek I Am Duchess of Malfi Still: Identity-Death Nexus in Duchess of Malfi and Skull Beneath the Skin by Carolyn F. Scott An Unsuitable for Anyone: Filthy Trade in P. D. James by Marnie Jones and Barbara Barker Between Men: How Ruth Rendell Reads for Gender by Martha Stoddard Holmes Class, Gender, and the Possibilities of Detection in Anne Perry's Victorian Reconstructions by Iska S. Alter A Suitable Job for a Woman: Sexuality, Motherhood, and Professionalism in Gaudy Night by Jasmine Y. Hall Bureaucrat as Reader: Detective Novel in the Context of Middle-Class Culture by James E. Bartell Index