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Christine A. Jackson is a professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she teaches critical and creative writing and literature. She is also a member of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and sits on the planning committee for SleuthFest, a mystery writers’ conference.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction: A Sound Structure      1. The Sidelong Glance      2. Codes, Cryptograms, and Crime Scene Investigations      3. Poe’s City of the Haunted Mind      4. Identity as the Divided Self      5. Identity as the Enclosed Self      6. Masks of Time      7. Poe’s Psycho-Fantastic Voyage into Reality TV      8. Over the Chopping Block      9. Poe at the Cineplex: Of Dungeons and Dragon Tattoos      10. Hurtling through Cyberspace      Conclusion      Works Cited      Index

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