Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Crime Fiction and Philosophy: Introduction and Overview -- a) The Philosophical Thoughts of Crime Writers and Crime Fiction -- b) The Philosophers' Views on Crime Fiction -- c) Philosophical Themes and Methods in Crime Fiction -- 2. Crime Fiction's Emergence from the Spirit of Western Philosophy -- 3. The Rationalworld of Sherlock Holmes -- a) On Logic in Crime Investigation -- b) On Rationalism in the Sherlock Holmes Stories -- 4. Gilbert Keith Chesterton's Christian Philosophy -- 5. Hammett's Pragmatism -- 6. Wittgenstein, PI, and the Mystery of the Missing Link -- a) Wittgenstein as a Reader of Crime fiction -- b) Traces of and Affinities to Crime Fiction in Wittgenstein's Way of Thinking and Writing -- c) The 'Fair Play Rule' Discourse Among Crime Writers and Wittgenstein's Concept of the Language Game -- d) Detective Stories and the Language Game -- e) The Final Clue -- 7. Albert Camus and the Philosophy of Crime -- 8. Jorge Luis Borges' Logic of Staging -- 9. Death in Crime Fiction and Philosophy -- 10. The Consolation of Crime Fiction is Stronger than the Consolation of Philosophy -- a) Philosophical Consolation -- b) The Consolation of Crime Fiction -- Index.