Guilty but insane : mind and law in golden age detective fiction / Samantha Walton.

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

xiv, 304 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.

Introduction: Death by adaption: the case for reading detective fiction -- Theories of mind: an introduction -- Psychological detection -- Guilty but insane -- Born criminals -- "The concealed enemy of the self": deviance and dissociation -- Irrational detection -- Dénoument.