Poe and the beautiful Segar girl

Josef Škvorecký

1-9

Body language

a study of death and gender in crime fiction

Sarah Dunant

10-20

Fascination and nausea

finding out the hard-boiled way

David Trotter

21-35

The writers who knew too much

populism and paradox in detective fiction's golden age

David Glover

36-49

Sherlock's children

the birth of the series

Martin Priestman

50-59

Making the dead speak

spiritualism and detective fiction

Chris Willis

60-74

The locus of disruption

serial murder and generic conventions in detective fiction

David Schmid

75-89

The detective as clown

a taxonomy

Audrey Laski

90-103

Mean streets and English gardens

Warren Chernaik

104-123

Authority, social anxiety and the body in crime fiction

Patricia Cornwell's unnatural exposure

Peter Messent

124-137

Desires and devices

on women detectives in fiction

Birgitta Berglund

138-152

A band of sisters

Margaret Kinsman

153-169

An urban myth

fantômas and the surrealists

Robert Vilain

170-187

Bleeding the thriller

Alain Robbe-Grillet's intertextual crimes

Jonathan C. BROWN

188-200

Oedipus express

trains, trauma and detective fiction

Laura Marcus

201-221

Open letter to detectives and psychoanalysts

analysis and reading

Patrick FFrench

222-232