- 225 pages
- English
- PDF
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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.Ā The bookĀ includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative
- 2 The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickensās āThe Signalmanā and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story
- 3 The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Greenās The Filigree Ball
- 4 G. K. Chestertonās Enclosure of Orthodoxy in āThe Wrong Shapeā
- 5 The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carrās The Hollow Man
- 6 Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection
- 7 The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Austerās Locked Room in City of Glass
- 8 The Narrative of Enclosure
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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