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Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction

The Locked Room Mystery

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Michael Cook
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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens’s ‘The Signalman’ and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 21-42

  4. The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Green’s The Filigree Ball

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 43-61

  5. G. K. Chesterton’s Enclosure of Orthodoxy in ‘The Wrong Shape’

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 62-84

  6. The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carr’s The Hollow Man

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 85-111

  7. Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 112-133

  8. The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster’s Locked Room in City of Glass

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 134-151

  9. The Narrative of Enclosure

    • Michael Cook
    Pages 152-172

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 173-210
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About this book

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. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.

About the author

MICHAEL COOK worked as Regional Director for the National Trust in South-West England until his retirement in 2002. He then completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Bristol, UK, which was awarded in 2008. He has lectured on diverse subjects including film and conservation, and is currently researching the Ghost Story and the poetry of John Clare and Wilfred Owen.

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