Table of Contents

We Must Have Certainity
Four Essays on the Detective Story
by J. K. Van Dover

	Contents
	Preface	9
1.	The Development of the Detective Story, 1841-2004	21
2.	The World of the Detective Story	62
3.	Classic Mystery	116
4.	"All men by nature desire to know"
	The Metaphysics of the Detective Story	130
	Notes	166
	Bibliography	205
	Index	214