Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction : the locked room mystery /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cook, Michael, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:	Crime files series.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism. Rooms in literature. Setting (Literature) Space in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Crime in literature. Kriminalliteratur. Zimmer (Motiv) Zimmer. Detective and mystery stories. Geschichte. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

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 story is the writer himself : Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass
The narrative of enclosure.