Contents -- Preface - Robin W. Winks -- Introduction - Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. -- Lynda S. Robinson and Lauren Haney: Detection in the Land of Mysteries - Rita Rippetoe -- John Maddox Roberts and Steven Saylor: Detecting in the Final Decades of the Roman Republic - Terrance L. Lewis -- Lindsey Davis: Falco, Cynical Detective in a Corrupt Roman Empire - Peter Hunt -- Peter Tremayne: Sister Fidelma and the Triumph of Truth - Christiane W. Luehrs and Robert B. Luehrs -- Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael - Edward J. Rielly -- P. C. Doherty: Hugh Corbett, Secret-Agent and Problem-Solver - Edward L. Meek, Theron M. Westerwelt, David N. Eldridge -- Susanna Gregory: Doctor Matthew Bartholomew, Master of Medicine and Detection - Jean Coakley -- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose - Judy Ann Ford -- Elizabeth Eyre: Detection in the Italian Renaissance - Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox -- Margaret Frazer: Sister Frevisse and Medieval Mysteries - Patricia W. Julius -- Josephine Tey and Others: The Case of Richard III - R. Gordon Kelly -- C. L. Grace: Kathryn Swinbrook, Fifteenth-Century Physician and Sleuth - Jean Coakley -- Michael Clynes: The Recollections of Shallot - David N. Eldridge, Theron M. Westerwelt, Edward L. Meek -- Maan Meyers: The Saga of the Dutchman - Frank A. Salamone -- Bruce Alexander: Sir Henry Fielding and Blind Justice - Donna Bradshaw Smith -- Keith Heller: A Genealogy of Detection in the Eighteenth Century - Scott R. Christianson -- Margaret Lawrence: An Eighteenth-Century Midwife - Marie Nelson -- Stephanie Barron: (Re)Inventing Jane Austen as Detective - Anita Vickers -- Kate Ross: Where Have All the Dandies Gone? - Jerry L. Parker -- James Brewer: Sleuths and Carpetbaggers along the Mississippi River - Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. -- Peter Heck: Mark Twain as Detective - Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.

Caleb Carr: Running Away from the Darkness - Douglas Tallack -- Anne Perry: Victorian 'Istorian and Murdermonger - Linda J. Holland-Toll -- Peter Lovesey: No Cribbing on History - Margaret L. Foxwell -- Elizabeth Peters: The Last Camel Died at Noon as Lost World Adventure Pastiche - Gary Hoppenstand -- Contributors.