Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- The Game's Afoot: On the Trail of the Metaphysical Detective Story -- Armchair Detecting, or the Corpus in the Library -- 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story -- 2. Borges's Library of Forking Paths -- 3. (De)feats of Detection: The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco -- Hard-Boiling Metaphysics -- 4. Gumshoe Gothics: Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" and His Followers -- 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Auster's City of Glass -- 6. "The Question Is the Story Itself": Postmodernism and Intertextuality in Auster's New York Trilogy -- Postmortem: Modern and Postmodern -- 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec -- 8. "A Thousand Other Mysteries": Metaphysical Detection, Ontological Quests -- 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal: In Robbe-Grillet's Investigative Cell -- Forging Identities -- 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space: Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures and Tabucchi's Il Filo dell'orizzonte -- 11. "Premeditated Crimes": The Dis-Solution of Detective Fiction in Gombrowicz's Works -- 12. "Subject-Cases" and "Book-Cases": Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to Auster -- In Place of an Ending -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.