The Technique of the Mystery Story电子书

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Chapter 1 - THE ETERNAL CURIOUS

1. Inquisition into the Curious is Universal

2. Early Riddles

3. The Passion for Solving Mysteries

Chapter 2 - THE LITERATURE OF MYSTERY

1. The Rightful Place of the Mystery Story in Fiction

2. The Mystery Story Considered as Art

3. The Claims of Antagonists and Protagonists

Chapter 3 - THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY

1. Ancient Mystery Tales

Chapter 4 - GHOST STORIES

1. A Working Classification

2. The Ghost Story

3. Famous Ghost Stories

4. The Humorous Ghost Story

Chapter 5 - RIDDLE STORIES

1. Some Notable Riddle Stories

2. The Nature of the Riddle Story and its Types

Chapter 6 - DETECTIVE STORIES

1. What is a Detective Story

2. Rise of the Detective Story

3. The Detective-Fictive and Real

4. Fiction versus Fact

5. The Interest of the Detective Story

6. A Summing Up

Chapter 7 - THE DETECTIVE

1. The Real Detective and His Work

2. Fictive Detective Material

3. The Transcendent Detective

4. Pioneer Detectives of Fiction

5. Recent Detectives of Fiction

6. The Scientific Detective of Fiction

7. The New Psychology in Detective Stories

8. Other Types

Chapter 8 - DEDUCTION

1. Ratiocination in Early Detective Stories

2. Deduction Used in Every-day Life

3. The Analytical Element in the Detective Story

4. Poe's Detective—The Prototype

5. The Detective in the Novel

Chapter 9 - APPLIED PRINCIPLES

1. The Detectives of Poe, Doyle, and Gaboriau

2. Individuality of these Detectives

3. The Real Sherlock Holmes

Chapter 10 - THE RATIONALE OF RATIOCINATION

1. Sherlock Holmes' Method

2. Lecoq's Method

3. Other Methods

4. Holmes' Method Evaluated

5. The Inductive and the Deductive Methods

6. Two Striking Examples

Chapter 11 - CLOSE OBSERVATION

1. The Search for Clues

2. The Bizarre in Crime

3. The Value of the Trivial

4. The Tricks of Imitation

Chapter 12 - OTHER DETECTIVES OF FICTION

1. Some Original Traits

2. Two Unique Detectives

Chapter 13 - PORTRAITS

1. Some Early Detective Portraits

2. Some More Modern Portraits

3. Some Less Known Portraits

4. Idiosyncrasies of Fictional Detectives

5. Favorite Phrases of Detectives

Chapter 14 - DEVIOUS DEVICES

1. Snow and Rain

2. Some Particularly Hackneyed Devices

3. Devices Which Are Not Plausible

Chapter 15 - FOOTPRINTS AND FINGERPRINTS

1. The Omnipresence of Footprints

2. Other Miraculous Discoveries

3. Remarkable Deductions from Footprints

4. Fingerprints and Teethmarks

Chapter 16 - MORE DEVICES

1. Tabulated Clues

2. Worn-out Devices

3. The Use of Disguise

4. Other "Properties"

Chapter 17 - FALSE DEVICES

1. The "Trace" Fallacy

2. The Destruction of Evidence

3. False Hypotheses

4. Errors of Fact and of Inference

5. The Use of Illustrative Plans

6. The Locked and Barred Room

Chapter 18 - MURDER IN GENERAL

1. Murder Considered in the Abstract

2. Murder as a Fine Art

3. The Murder Theme

4. The Robbery Theme

5. The Mysterious Disappearance

Chapter 19 - PERSONS IN THE STORY

1. The Victim

2. The Criminal

3. Faulty Portrayal of the Criminal

4. The Secondary Detective

5. The Suspects

6. The Heroine and the Element of Romance

7. The Police

8. The Supernumeraries

Chapter 20 - THE HANDLING OF THE CRIME

Chapter 21 - THE MOTIVE

Chapter 22 - EVIDENCE

1. The Coroner

2. The Inquest

3. The Witnesses

4. Presentation of the Evidence

5. Circumstantial Evidence

6. Deductions from Evidence

7. Deductions from Clues

8. Evidence by Applied Psychology

9. Direct Observation

10. Exactness of Detail

11. Theories of Evidence

Chapter 23 - STRUCTURE

1. Length

2. The Short-Story and the Novel

3. Singleness of Plot in the Detective Story

4. The Question of Length

5. The Narrator in the Detective Story

6. The Setting

Chapter 24 - PLOTS

1. The Plot is the Story

2. Constructing the Plot

3. Maintaining Suspense

4. Planning the Story

5. The Question of Humor

6. Some Unique Devices

Chapter 25 - FURTHER ADVICES

1. The Use of Coincidences

2. The Use of Melodrama

3. Dullness

4. Unique Plots and Their Solubility

5. Women as Writers of Detective Stories

Chapter 26 - FINAL ADVICES

1. General Qualities of the Detective Story

2. Correctness

3. Names

4. Titles

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