Animals in Detective Fiction

Origins and Evolutions: The Brutal History of Detective Fiction.- Ontologies.- Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction.- Quantum Entanglements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.- Wolverines, Werewolves and Demon Dogs: Animality, Criminality and Classification in James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet.- Ethics.- The Psittacine Witness: Parrot Talk and Animal Ethics in Earl Derr Biggers’ The Chinese Parrot and Earl Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Perjured Parrot.- Ecology, Capability and Companion Species: Conflicting Ethics in Nevada Barr’s Blood Lure.- Laboratory Tech-Noir: Genre, Narrative Form, and the Literary Model Organism in Jay Hosking’s Three Years with the Rat.- Reptiles, Buddhism, and Detection in John Burdett’s Bangkok 8.- Politics.- Animals, Biopolitics, and Sensation Fiction: M. E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.- “The Motto of the Mollusc”: Patricia Highsmith and the Semiotics ofSnails.- “Before the white man came, when animals still talked”: Colonial Creatures in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Adrian C. Louis’s Skins.- Forms.- Aping the Classics: Terry Pratchett’s Satirical Animals and Detective Fiction.- Animal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction.- “As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket”: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem.