Preface
Edgar Allan Poe and the detective story narrative
The locked compartment: Charles Dickens's 'The signalman' and enclosure in The railway mystery story
The body in the library: reading the locked room in Anna Katherine Green's The filigree ball
G. K. Chesterton's enclosure of orthodoxy in 'The wrong shape'
The hollow text: illusion as theme in John Dickson Carr's The hollow man
Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinth of detection
The story is the writer himself: Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass
The narrative of enclosure.