Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Investigations One. Reading the Crime Short Story Two. Early Crime Short Stories and the Crime Trope Three. Rise of the Detectives Four. The Golden Age Crime Short Story Five. The American Crime Short Story I: Domestic Noir Six. The American Crime Short Story II: The Hard-Boiled Mode Seven. Postcolonial Crime Short Stories I: Canadian Transgressions Eight. Postcolonial Crime Short Stories II: Irish Mythology Reimagined Nine. Reimagining Sherlock Holmes in the Postmodern Age Ten. The Nordic Noir Crime Short Story Afterword Works Cited Index