Detective fiction and literature : the figure on the carpet

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Detective Fiction and Scandal....Pages 1-15 Oedipus and Aristotle; Freud and The Moonstone....Pages 16-35 Poe....Pages 36-55 Gaboriau....Pages 56-73 Sherlock Holmes — The Series....Pages 74-92 Sherlock Holmes — The Valleys of Fear....Pages 93-104 Detective Fiction and Ideas....Pages 105-135 ‘A Little Art Jargon’....Pages 136-150 A Version of Pastoral....Pages 151-168 The Hardboiled Heritage....Pages 169-193 Back Matter....Pages 194-217