Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction: The Locked Room Mystery

By Michael L. Cook

Book Overview

Preface Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens's The Signalman and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Green's The Filigree Ball G.K. Chesterton's Enclosure of Orthodoxy in The Wrong Shape The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster's Locked Room in the City of Glass The Narrative of Enclosure Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349325317
• ISBN13: 9781349325313
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"