The Second Detective Novel: On Howdunit is a critical essay that considers howdunit, the question of how a crime was committed in detective fiction, and extends its inquiry to whendunit and wheredunit, the questions of time and place.

A critical essay that moves from howdunit to the structures of detective fiction concerned with the time and place of an event.

This essay examines the work of Edogawa Ranpo through the lenses of animism and eros. It considers the relationship between the human and the nonhuman in Ranpo's writing.

An essay reading the work of Edogawa Ranpo through the lenses of animism and eros.