21.   This spoof of juvenile detective fiction involves the traditional Ridiculous recipe of sight gags, arcane literary allusions, cross-dressing, flesh and simulated sex.

22.   Very seldom does a critical work about detective fiction cause one to rethink the fundamentals of the genre.

23.   Adams-Volpe hopes to create a database of detective fiction for academics, cross-referencing psychological traits and such preferences of villains and victims as favorite foods and locales.

24.   Around the same time, he read detective fiction and thrillers, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

25.   The young Hitchcock followed murder cases in local newspapers, and voraciously read detective fiction and thrillers, gobbling up anything by Poe.