Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Poe and the Beautiful Segar Girl -- 2 Body Language: a Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction -- 3 Fascination and Nausea:...
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Poe and the Beautiful Segar Girl -- 2 Body Language: a Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction -- 3 Fascination and Nausea: Finding Out the Hard-Boiled Way -- 4 The Writers Who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction's Golden Age -- 5 Sherlock's Children: the Birth of the Series -- 6 Making the Dead Speak: Spiritualism and Detective Fiction -- 7 The Locus of Disruption: Serial Murder and Generic Conventions in Detective Fiction -- 8 The Detective as Clown: a Taxonomy -- 9 Mean Streets and English Gardens -- 10 Authority, Social Anxiety and the Body in Crime Fiction: Patricia Cornwell's Unnatural Exposure -- 11 Desires and Devices: On Women Detectives in Fiction -- 12 A Band of Sisters -- 13 An Urban Myth: Fantomas and the Surrealists -- 14 Bleeding the Thriller: Alain Robbe-Grillet's Intertextual Crimes -- 15 Oedipus Express: Trains, Trauma and Detective Fiction -- 16 Open Letter to Detectives and Psychoanalysts: Analysis and Reading -- Index.
