Robin W. Winks -- The Guilty Vicarage / W.H. Auden -- Aristotle on Detective Fiction / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? / Edmund Wilson -- Only a Detective Story / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The Dangerous Edge / Gavin Lambert -- The Omnibus of Crime / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The Formal Detective Novel / George Grella -- The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel / George Grella -- The Study of Literary Formulas / John Cawelti -- Detection and the Literary Art / Jacques Barzun -- The Short Story's Mutations / Julian Symons -- The Case Against the Detective Story / Erik Routley -- The Writer as Detective Hero / Ross MacDonald -- Artistic Failures and Successes: Christie and Sayers / John Cawleti -- A Detective Story Decalogue / Ronald A. Knox -- The Criticism of Detective Fiction / George N. Dove -- The Sordid Truth: Four Cases / Robin W. Winks -- Two Sample University Courses on Detective Fiction -- Where to Obtain Out-of-Print Detective Stories -- Critical and Historical Literature -- A Personal List of 200 Favorites.
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