Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

1. The Case of the Missing Detectives; or, Reassessing the American Contribution to Detective Fiction
Pamela Bedore

2. The Happy-Ending Deception; or, Uncovering the Subversive Potential of Detective Dirne Novels
Pamela Bedore

3. The Case of the Contaminated Icon; or, Allan Pinkerton’s Dangerous Detective Doubles
Pamela Bedore

4. Playing with the Ace of Hearts; or, Mentorship, Sportsmanship, and Nick Carter’s Epistemological Dilemmas
Pamela Bedore

5. Faulkner, Twain, and the Legacy of Dirne Novel Detectives
Pamela Bedore

6. Conclusions and Directions for Future Research
Pamela Bedore

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, North American Literature, Literature, general, Crime and Society, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory