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Introduction  Chapter 1. A Chronology of Crime: Early Crime Narratives  Crime Stories as Cautionary Tales  Crime Fiction and Policing  The Golden Age to the Present  Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps  The Origins of Mystery Fiction  Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the Amateur Detective  Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder  Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo  Settings and Sub-Genres  Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason  Origins and Development  A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero  Last Chances and New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier  Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys: Modernity and the City  Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode  Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines  Fiction as Ideological State Apparatus  Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the Procedural  Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural, Social Placebo  The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance  Arrested Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural  Chapter 5. The Crime Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller  The Noir Thriller  The Anti-Conspiracy Thriller  6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and Interpreting the Past  Crime, History and Realism  The Case of the Name of the Rose  Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel