Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. The Games Afoot 1
5. Armchair Detecting, or the Corpus in the Library
6. Chapter 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading 27
7. Chapter 2. Borgess Library of Forking Paths 55
8. Chapter 3. (De)feats of Detection 75
9. Hard-Boiling Metaphysics
10. Chapter 4. Gumshoe Gothics 101
11. Chapter 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer 117
12. Chapter 6. “The Question Is the Story Itself” 134
13. Postmortem: Modern and Postmodern
14. Chapter 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman 157
15. Chapter 8. “A Thousand Other Mysteries” 179
16. Chapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal 199
17. Forging Identities
18. Chapter 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space 217
19. Chapter 11. ”Premeditated Crimes” 231
20. Chapter 12. “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases” 247
21. In Place of an Ending
22. Suggestions for Further Reading 273
23. Contributors 285
24. Index 289