Revolution : Origins Mystery and imagination : Edgar Allan Poe and the first detective stories Guilty secrets : Sensation novels Detective fever : Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and early detective fiction Poacher turned gamekeeper : The French Revolution: Vidocq, Gaboriau and their worldwide influence The great detective : Sherlock Holmes Rogues' gallery : Raffles and other villains The nature of evil : G.K. Chesterton and faith and sin in detective fiction Plot minds : Marie Belloc Lowndes and Edwardian-era detective fiction The science of detection : R. Austin Freeman and scientific mysteries Had I but known : Mary Roberts Rinehart and "women in jeopardy" novels War and peace : The First World War and detective fiction Treacherous impulse : Early spy fiction The mistress of deception : Agatha Christie American tragedy : Van Dine and the American Golden Age Superfluous women : Queens of crime Challenging the reader: Detection and game-playing Locked rooms : Impossible crime mysteries The long arm of the law : Early police stories Blood simple : Dashiell Hammett Murder and its motives : True crime Twists of fate : Francis Iles and ironic crime fiction The sound of mystery : Radio mysteries In lonely rooms : Raymond Chandler Brothers in crime : Patrick and Bruce Hamilton Cracks in the wall : Georges Simenon and European crime fiction Sensation in court : Legal mysteries California dreaming : Crime writers and Hollywood Carnival of crime : Mystery and the macabre Waking nightmares : Noir fiction Dagger of the mind : Casebook novels Whose body? : Whowasdunins: mysteries about the victim's identity Private wounds : Transitioning from the Golden Age Out of this world : Traditional detective fiction evolves in the United States
Perfect murders : Crime and the end of empire
Mind games : Post-war psychological suspense
Deep winter : Patricia Highsmith
Forking paths : Borges and postmodernism
Bloody murder : Julian Symons and crime fiction criticism
People with ghosts : Post-war private investigators and the legacy of Vietnam
Killing jokes : Comedy and crime
Literary agents : Post-war spy fiction
Nerve : Adventure novels and thrillers
Outside in Amsterdam : Dutch crime
Whodunwhat? : Theatrical murder
Black and blue : British police fiction
Home discomforts : Domestic suspense
Mystery games : East Asian detective fiction
Early genres : Difference and diversity
A suitable job for a woman : Women writing about private investigators
A feeling for snow : Scandinavian crime writing
Fatal inversions : Ruth Rendell and modern psychological suspense
Dark places : American police fiction
Long shadows : Historical crime
A taste for death : P.D. James and the truth about human character and experience.
