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Detective Fiction
Charles J. Rzepka
ISBN: 978-0-7456-2942-1
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280 pages
October 2005, Polity
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  • Description
  • Table of Contents
  • Author Information
  • Hallmark Features
  • Reviews
  • 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
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