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Mystery & Detective Fiction

The detective story is the only literary form in which the reader is officially permitted to enjoy a corpse. Its central labour is to make the disordered...

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The detective story is the only literary form in which the reader is officially permitted to enjoy a corpse. Its central labour is to make the disordered legible: to take a death, a deception, or an absence, and reorganise the world around it until the reader sees what was always there. Key sections include: Mystery & Detective.; A FIRST WORD What the genre is for.; CHAPTER I Fair play.; CHAPTER II Poe invents the detective.; CHAPTER III Collins · the first English detective novel.; CHAPTER IV Holmes.; CHAPTER V The Golden Age.; CHAPTER VI Christie.; CHAPTER VII The locked-room puzzle.; CHAPTER VIII Father Brown..

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  1. 01Mystery & Detective.
  2. 02A FIRST WORD What the genre is for.
  3. 03CHAPTER I Fair play.
  4. 04CHAPTER II Poe invents the detective.
  5. 05CHAPTER III Collins · the first English detective novel.
  6. 06CHAPTER IV Holmes.
  7. 07CHAPTER V The Golden Age.
  8. 08CHAPTER VI Christie.
  9. 09CHAPTER VII The locked-room puzzle.
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII Father Brown.
  11. 11CHAPTER IX The hard-boiled school.
  12. 12CHAPTER X Chandler on what the form is for.
  13. 13CHAPTER XI The pulp tradition.
  14. 14CHAPTER XII Highsmith.
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII Postwar British.
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV The police procedural.
  17. 17CHAPTER XV Simenon · French restraint.
  18. 18CHAPTER XVI Scandinavian noir.
  19. 19CHAPTER XVII Japanese crime.
  20. 20CHAPTER XVIII The literary thriller.
  21. 21CHAPTER XIX The inverted mystery.
  22. 22CHAPTER XX Tana French.
  23. 23CHAPTER XXI Mosley · Black Los Angeles.
  24. 24CHAPTER XXII Domestic suspense.
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIII The crime novel as social novel.
  26. 26CHAPTER XXIV The working parts.
  27. 27CHAPTER XXV Cosy vs dark.
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVI Thirty essential mysteries.
  29. 29CHAPTER XXVII Where to go next.
  30. 30Case closed.
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