Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Rebecca Josephy Typologies of Magic and Detection Magic and Detective Fiction: A Typological Approach Zi-Ling Yan Creating the Impossible: ­Magician-Authors and the ­Mystery-Making Process Neil Tobin Tricks with Mirrors: The ­Magician-Detective as Proxy in ­Magician-Written Mysteries Neil Tobin Magic and Detective Fiction: An Overlapping History "My power to do good or evil": The Magician as Criminal/Detective in Victorian Culture Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott "A prince among conjurers": Performance Magic and Grant Allen's An African Millionaire Christopher Pittard Arsène Lupin, ­Gentleman-Magician? The Art of Deception in Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin Series Rebecca Josephy Magic in Global Detective Fiction Considering Magic and Technology in the Works of Edogawa Ranpo and Murakami Haruki Robert Del Greco Black Magic and Its Complete Unmasking? Magic, Reason, and Russian Sleuthing in Boris Akunin's Adventures of Erast Fandorin Series John P. Hope Elvis Infante, from Occult Investigator to Shaman Detective: A New Manifestation of Criminal Fiction in F.G. Haghenbeck's Novels and the Diablero Series George Cole Appendix: ­Magic-Related Detection in Books and Pulp Magazines, 1899-1948 Neil Tobin and ­Zi-Ling Yan Bibliography: Important Texts in the Field About the Contributors Index.