Unit 1 -- The Rules of the Game

1.1 Welcome to the Parlor
1.2 A Mysterious Definition of Mystery Fiction
1.3 The Rules of the Game
1.4 "Dead" Serious?
1.5 Civil and Criminal Codes
1.6 You've Done for Yourself, Dot: A Case History
1.7 A Rule-Bound Genre That Makes the Unruly a Virtue?
1.8 The Case of Dr. Sheppard's Asterisks
1.9 Rules Were Made to Be Broken?

Unit 2 -- Analysis: I Deduct, Therefore I Am

2.1 Philosophical Certainty and the Origin of the Mystery
2.2 The Deduction of One Truth from Another
2.3 The Dangers of Random Coincidence
2.4 Dupin and the Cartesian Split
2.5 The Principles of Detection and Reading About Detection
2.6 The Disappointing London Consultant
2.7 Observe the Clue of the Story's Title, Watson
2.8 "Built Noticin'"
2.9 Lessons from Breaking the Rules and Upsetting Expectations

Unit 3 -- The Art of Self-Torment

3.1 Why Is There Air?
3.2 Art and Terrorism: "The Doom of the Darnaways" and the Weird of the Browns
3.3 Mirrors and Cameras
3.4 Bones and Silence: Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand
3.5 Is That Your Final Answer?

Unit 4 -- Hard-Boiled Detectives I

4.1 Knights in These Mean Streets
4.2 Where It All Began: Pulp Fiction and "Smashing Detective Stories"
4.3 Individual Justice Versus the System
4.4 Violence and Sex
4.5 Style
4.6 The Maltese Falcon

Unit 5 -- Hard-Boiled Detectives II

5.1 The Romance of the Hard-Boiled Detective
5.2 From Knight to Pawn
5.3 From Knight to Night: Film Noir and Double Indemnity

Unit 6 -- Police Procedurals

6.1 The First Detective Story
6.2 The First Police Detectives: The Origin of Organized Police
6.3 Casebook Literature: Police Detectives in Nineteenth-Century (Non-)Fiction
6.4 Twentieth-Century Police and Police Procedural Novels
6.5 Police Procedural Defined
6.6 A Good Egg, but Not a Complete Egghead, and Not Entirely Hard-Boiled, Either

Unit 7 -- Female Gumshoes

7.1 The Female Private Detective and Women's Lib
7.2 "You Got a Partner?"
7.3 But Don't Call Me Shrill
7.4 I Made a Lousy Housewife, but It Would Still Be Nice to Have a Picnic with the Kids
7.5 La Pieta

Unit 8 -- Female Gumshoes and the Next Generation of Male Detectives

8.1 A Kinder, Gentler Detective?
8.2 What's Love Got to Do With It?
8.3 The Post-1990 Detective: Getting "Soft-Boiled"?
8.4 "Such Matters Have No Vital Place in a Record of Crime and Deduction"

Unit 9 -- First-Generation Cozies and Agatha Christie

9.1 Welcome to the Garden
9.2 Epic Evil and the Cozy
9.3 Cozy Microcosm
9.4 Cozy Heroism
9.5 Cozy Stooges
9.6 Game, Set, Match
9.7 A Comedy Is Announced
9.8 All's Well That Ends Well

Unit 10 -- Cozies after World War II

10.1 Introduction
10.2 A Short History of Mystery Fiction Since World War II
10.3 The Haunting of the Cozy
10.4 Better Homes and Gardens
10.5 A Morbid State
10.6 Gothic Contained
10.7 The Gothic Interior Remodeled
10.8 "The Circle of Life Continues"

Unit 11 -- Endings

11.1 The End
11.2 Apocalypse Now
11.3 "Take It to the Limit One More Time"
11.4 "Death and the Compass"
11.5 "Full Circle"
11.6 Multiple Endings to Doyle's Saga: "The Final Problem" and "The Veiled Lodger"