Preface * Acknowledgements * Mocking Modernity * Gender and Performance in the Criminal Masquerade * The Cavader as Criminalised Text * Where does that Criminality Come From? Women in a Criminalising Modernity * Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Sara Paretsky: the New Woman * Masquerade, Criminality and Desire in Toni Morrison's Fiction * Writing the Serial Killer into (Post) Modernity * Conclusion * End Notes * Index Preface * Acknowledgements * Mocking Modernity * Gender and Performance in the Criminal Masquerade * The Cavader as Criminalised Text * Where does that Criminality Come From? Women in a Criminalising Modernity * Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Sara Paretsky: the New Woman * Masquerade, Criminality and Desire in Toni Morrison's Fiction * Writing the Serial Killer into (Post) Modernity * Conclusion * End Notes * Index.