Table of contents for The origins of the American detective story / LeRoy Lad Panek.

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Contents
Preface	1
 1. The First Fifty Years	5
 2. Sherlock Holmes in America	000
 3. The Police	000
 4. The Scientist	000
 5. New Science and Pseudo Science	000
 6. Journalism and Journalists	000
 7. Private Detectives	000
 8. Women	000
 9. Lawyers and the Law	000
10. Everybody Else	000
11. Last Thoughts	000
Works Cited	000
Index	000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Detectives in literature.