The life of crime : detecting the history of mysteries and their creators
(Book)

Revolution : Origins -- Mystery and imagination : Edgar Allan Poe and the first detective stories -- Guilty secrets : Sensation novels -- Detective fever : Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and early detective fiction -- Poacher turned gamekeeper : The French Revolution: Vidocq, Gaboriau and their worldwide influence -- The great detective : Sherlock Holmes -- Rogues' gallery : Raffles and other villains -- The nature of evil : G.K. Chesterton and faith and sin in detective fiction -- Plot minds : Marie Belloc Lowndes and Edwardian-era detective fiction -- The science of detection : R. Austi Freeman and scientific mysteries -- Had I but known : Mary Roberts Rinehart and "women in jeopardy" novels -- War and peace : The First World War and detective fiction -- Treacherous impulse : Early spy fiction -- The mistress of deception : Agatha Christie -- American tragedy : Van Dine and the American Golden Age -- Superfluous women : Queens of crime -- Challenging the reader: Detection and game-playing -- Locked rooms : Impossible crime mysteries -- The long arm of the law : Early police stories -- Blood simple : Dashiell Hammett -- Murder and its motives : True crime -- Twists of fate : Francis Iles and ironic crime fiction -- The sound of mystery : Radio mysteries -- In lonely rooms : Raymond Chandler -- Brothers in crime : Patrick and Bruce Hamilton -- Cracks in the wall : Georges Simenon and European crime fiction -- Sensation in court : Legal mysteries -- California dreaming : Crime writers and Hollywood -- Carnival of crime : Mystery and the macabre -- Waking nightmares : Noir fiction -- Dagger of the mind : Casebook novels -- Whose body? : Whowasdunins: mysteries about the victim's identity -- Private wounds : Transitioning from the Golden Age -- Out of this world : Traditional detective fiction evolves in the United States --

Perfect murders : Crime and the end of empire

Mind games : Post-war psychological suspense

Deep winter : Patricia Highsmith

Forking paths : Borges and postmodernism

Bloody murder : Julian Symons and crime fiction criticism

People with ghosts : Post-war private investigators and the legacy of Vietnam

Killing jokes : Comedy and crime

Literary agents : Post-war spy fiction

Nerve : Adventure novels and thrillers

Outside in Amsterdam : Dutch crime

Whodunwhat? : Theatrical murder

Black and blue : British police fiction

Home discomforts : Domestic suspense

Mystery games : East Asian detective fiction

Early genres : Difference and diversity

A suitable job for a woman : Women writing about private investigators

A feeling for snow : Scandinavian crime writing

Fatal inversions : Ruth Rendell and modern psychological suspense

Dark places : American police fiction

Long shadows : Historical crime

A taste for death : P.D. James and the truth about human character and experience.