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Part 1 Theoretical Approaches to the Genre: Canonization, ModernLiteraure and the Detective Story, John G. Cawelti; Shamus-a-Um - Having theQuality of a Classical Detective, Timothy W. Boyd and Carolyn Higbie; AnIdeal Helpmate - the Detective Character as (Fictional) Object and IdealImago, Timothy R. Prchal; The Politics of Secrecy and Publicity - theFunctions of Hidden Stories in Some Recent British Mystery Fiction, PeterHuhn; Not So Much "Whodunnit" as "Whoizzit" - Margaret Millar's Command of aMetonymic Sub-Genre, Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson; Parody and DetectiveFiction, Janie Mant; "The Game's Afoot" - Predecessors and Pursuits of aPostmodern Detective, Kathleen Belin Owen. Part 2 Agatha Christie Novels andBritish Detective Fiction: Christie's Narrative Games, Robert Merrill; "ItWas the Mark of Cain" - Agatha Christie and the Murder of the Mystery, RobinWoods; Impossible Murderers - Agatha Christie and the Community of Readers,Ina Rae Hark; "The Daughters of his Manhood" - Christie and the Golden Age ofDetective Fiction, Mary Anne Ackershoek; "I Am Duchess of Malfi Still" - theIdentity-Death Nexus in "The Duchess of Malfi" and "The Skull Beneath theSkin", Carolyn F. Scott; "An Unsuitable Job" for Anyone - the "Filthy Trade"in P.D. James, Marnie Jones and Barbara Barker; Between Men - How RuthRendell Reads for Gender, Martha Stoddard Holme; Class, Gender and thePossibilities of Detection in Anne Perry's Victorian Reconstructions, Iska S.Alter; A Suitable Job for a Woman - Sexuality, Motherhood and Professionalismin "Gaudy Night", Jasmine Y. Hall; The Bureaucrat as Reader - the DetectiveNovel in the Context of Middle-Class Culture, James E. Bartell.