Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction
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Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction

The Locked Room Mystery

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Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction

The Locked Room Mystery

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The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction.The bookincludes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230313736

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative
  10. 2 The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens’s ‘The Signalman’ and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story
  11. 3 The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Green’s The Filigree Ball
  12. 4 G. K. Chesterton’s Enclosure of Orthodoxy in ‘The Wrong Shape’
  13. 5 The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carr’s The Hollow Man
  14. 6 Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection
  15. 7 The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster’s Locked Room in City of Glass
  16. 8 The Narrative of Enclosure
  17. Notes
  18. Select Bibliography
  19. Index