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# Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Detective fiction and its origins
- 2 The post-war detective fiction boom: historical and social context
  - 2.1 Rethinking detective fiction
  - 2.2 The author’s life
  - 2.3 Gender and detective fiction
  - 2.4 Christie’s political context
- 3 Structures of detective fiction
  - 3.1 Mahjong: the function of the clue–puzzle narrative
- 4 The Purloined Killer: the role of the reader
- 5 Does Christie break ‘the rules’?
  - 5.1 The rules of detective fiction
- 6 Adaptation and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements

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