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title	:	Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes : Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society
author	:	Paul, Robert S.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809317222
print isbn13	:	9780809317226
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187105
language	:	English
subject	Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Christianity and literature, Literature and society, Theology in literature.
publication date	:	1991
lcc	:	PR830.D4P38 1991eb
ddc	:	823/.087209
subject	:	Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Christianity and literature, Literature and society, Theology in literature.

Page iii Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society Robert S. Paul Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville

Page iv Copyright 1991 by Robert S. Paul All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Jason Schellenberg Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Paul, Robert S. Whatever happened to Sherlock Holmes? detective fiction, popular theology, and society / Robert S. Paul. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism. 2. Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism. 3. Christianity and literature. 4. Literature and society. 5. Theology in literature. I. Title. PR830.D4P38 1991 823'.087209 dc2090-23719 ISBN 0-8093-1722-2CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v To Eunice Mary Paul who introduced me to the subject and Erik Reginald Routley who pioneered the way

Page vii There is no need to bore ourselves with this rubbish. Edmund Wilson, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd," in Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties. The real connoisseurs, who avowedly prefer this type of fiction to all others, and who read it with close and critical attention, are to be found among men of the definitely intellectual class: theologians, scholars, lawyers, and to a less extent, perhaps, doctors and men of science. Judging by the letters, which I have received from time to time, the enthusiast par excellence is the clergyman of a studious and scholarly habit. R. Austin Freeman, "The Art of the Detective Story" The detective-story is the normal recreation of noble minds. Philip Guedalla, quoted approvingly by Dorothy L. Sayers The most curious fact about the detective story is that it makes its greatest appeal to those classes of people who are most immune to other forms of daydream literature. The typical detective story addict is a doctor or clergyman or scientist or artist, i.e. a fairly successful professional man with intellectual interests and well-read in his own field, who could never stomach the Saturday Evening Post or True Confessions or movie magazines or comics. W. H. Auden, "The Guilty Vicarage," in The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays The detective story reader is not a love of violence but a lover of order. Erik R. Routley, in The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story Detective fiction... becomes the mirror of society. Robin W. Winks, in Detective Fiction

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