Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction

JEROME H. DELAMATER is Professor of Communication at the School of Communication, Hofstra University.RUTH PRIGOZY is Professor of English at Hofstra University.

• PrefaceTheoretical Approaches to the GenreCanonization, Modern Literature, and the Detective Story by John G. CaweltiShamus-a-um: Having the Quality of a Classical Detective by Timothy W. Boyd and Carolyn HigbieAn Ideal Helpmate: The Detective Character as (Fictional) Object and Ideal Imago by Timothy R. PrchalThe Politics of Secrecy and Publicity: The Functions of Hidden Stories in Some Recent British Mystery Fiction by Peter HühnNot so Much "Whodunnit" as "Whoizzit": Margaret Millar's Command of a Metonymic Sub-Genre by Ann Thompson and John O. ThompsonParody and Detective Fiction by Janice Mant"The Game's Afoot": Predecessors and Pursuits of a Postmodern Detective, by Kathleen Belin OwenAgatha Christie Novels and British Detective FictionChristie's Narrative Games by Robert Merrill"It Was the Mark of Cain": Agatha Christie and the Murder of the Mystery by Robin WoodsImpossible 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": The Identity-Death Nexus in The Duchess of Malfi and The Skull Beneath the Skin by Carolyn F. Scott"An Unsuitable Job" for Anyone: The "Filthy Trade" in P. D. James by Marnie Jones and Barbara BarkerBetween Men: How Ruth Rendell Reads for Gender by Martha Stoddard HolmesClass, Gender, and the Possibilities of Detection in Anne Perry's Victorian Reconstructions by Iska S. AlterA Suitable Job for a Woman: Sexuality, Motherhood, and Professionalism in Gaudy Night by Jasmine Y. HallThe Bureaucrat as Reader: The Detective Novel in the Context of Middle-Class Culture by James E. BartellIndex