Erik Routley - The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story (1972)

CONTENTS

Preface

1. Prologue: What Fun It All Was

I. THE MASTER

2. The Master - Sherlock Holmes

3. The Master's World - Sherlock Holmes

4. Romance - Sherlock Holmes

5. A Whisper of 'Norbury' - Sherlock Holmes

II. THE CLASSICS

6. Severe Science - John Thorndyke

7. In the Dark - Max Carrados

8. The Art of Making Objections - Reginald Fortune

9. The Mystery of Iniquity - Father Brown

10. The Fairy Tale and the Secret - Father Brown

III. PURITANS AND ROMANTICS

11. Coming of Age - E. C. Bentley : Freeman Wills Crofts : John Rhode

12. Quartet of Muses: First Pair - Agatha Christie: Dorothy Sayers

13. Quartet of Muses : Second Pair - Ngaio Marsh : Margery Allingham

14. Politeness and Protest - Michael Innes: Edmund Crispin : Joanna Cannan : John Bingham

15. And a Large Supporting Cast - Anthony Berkeley: John Dickson Carr : Josephine Bell : Gladys Mitchell : Chris­tianna Brand: Glyn Carr: Thurman Warriner: Anthony Gilbert: Andrew Garve: Cyril Hare: Nicholas Blake: Josephine Tey: Georgette Heyer: Mary Fitt: Mary Kelly : Winston Graham : Macdonald Hastings : Stanley Hyland: John Trench: Georges Simenon: Nicolas Freeling, and others

16. Certain Americans - E. A. Poe : Ellery Queen : Erle Stanley Gardner: Patrick Quentin: Francis Kemelman: Lesley Egan, and others

IV. EXCELLENCES AND LIMITATIONS

17. The Case against the Detective Story

18. On Being Serious-minded

Appendices :

I For the Tidy-minded

II For the Faithful Index

Index