| Preface | |
| Foreword | |
| Pt. 1 | The Obligation to Invent: Readers, Writers, and the Detectory Schema | |
| A Model of Competence: The Reader That Detective Fiction Has Made | 3 |
| The Detectory Schema: The Case against Oedipus Wrecks | 13 |
| In Poe's Image: The Reader That Poe Has Created | 25 |
| The Labyrinthine Text: The Fiction That the Reader Makes | 37 |
| Pt. 2 | Borges and the Labyrinths of the Detective Story | |
| Borges, Detective Story Reader | 49 |
| Treading the Labyrinth: Borges and the Detectory Reader | 57 |
| The Reading Self: The Golem Meets His Maker | 67 |
| "Death and the Compass": Lonnrot's Last Case? | 77 |
| Pt. 3 | The Readers Write: Bustos Domecq and Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi | |
| Bioy Casares and Borges: The Making of "Biorges" | 99 |
| A Compendium of Heresies: Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi | 109 |
| The Mystified Reader: "The Twelve Figures of the World" | 119 |
| "Honorio Bustos Domecq, What Is an Author?" | 131 |
| Pt. 4 | The Text as Web: A Case for Conjecture in the Name of the Rose | |
| The Narrative Mask: Preface on Eco's Preface | 145 |
| Detectory Method and the Mystery of the Rose | 151 |
| Jorge of Burgos: Eco's Minotaur | 163 |
| Labyrinths and the Detectory Schema | 179 |
| The Drive toward Resolution: A Case for Conjecture | 187 |
| Afterword | 199 |
| Bibliography | 207 |
| Author Index | 229 |
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
