Detective agency: women rewriting the hard-boiled tradition

1. Private eye and the public: professional women detectives and the business of publishing

2. Gumshoe metaphysics: reading popular culture and formula fiction

3. Does she or doesn't she?: the problematics of feminist detection

4. Text as evidence: linguistic subversions

5. Private I: viewing (through) the (female) body

6. Plotting against the law: outlaw agency

7. "She's watching the detectives": the woman PI in film and television.