Detective Fiction: From Victorian Sleuths to the Present

Mysterious origins

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian Era

The queen of crime: Agatha Christie and the Golden Age

Gifted amateurs: academics and zoologists

Private investigators and hard-boiled heroes

Cops, capers, and police procedurals

Spies among us: espionage and techno-thrillers

In the teeth of the evidence: lawyers and legal eagles

Medicine for murder: the medical mystery

Probing the past: historical detective fiction

Women of mystery: beyond female intuition

International intrigue: detective fiction goes global

Investigating identity: ethnic sleuths

Regional sleuths and future trends in detective fiction.