Introduction chapter one. Information about the development of the detective genre

1^ Lasine, Solomon, Daniel, and the Detective Story: The Social Functions of a Literary Genre, 257.

2^ Scaggs, Crime Fction, 12.

3^ Poe, The Complete Stories, 474.

4^ Škvorecký, Nápady čtenáře detektivek, 35.

5^ Scaggs, Crime Fiction, 20.

6^ Holquist, Whodunit and Other Questions: Metaphysical Detective Stories in Post-War Fiction, 139.

7^ Škvorecký, Nápady čtenáře detektivek, 36.

8^ Scaggs, Crime Fiction, 30.

9^ Ed McBain is one of the many pseudonyms of Evan Hunter who was born with the name Salvatore Albert Lombino. At the age of 26 Lombino legally adopted the name Evan Hunter but many of his novels were still written under the pseudonyms.

10^ Auden, The Guilty Vicarage, 409.

11^ Scaggs, Crime Fiction, 21.

12^ Scaggs, Crime Fiction, 29.

13^ Scaggs, Crime Fiction, 50.