This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive
with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions
needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The
theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the
getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English
Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this
theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional
detection - cool or rational, and warm of emotional. The evolution
of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in
which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the
English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy
stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic
Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are
suggested.
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