Multicultural detective fiction / Adrienne Johnson Gosselin -- Detective novel as a resistant text / Patricia Linton -- Xojo and homicide / Wayne Templeton -- Lucha Corpi and the politics of detective fiction / Tim Libretti -- Playing the boys' game / Phyllis M. Betz -- Queering the "I" / Stephen F. Soitos -- Gender-blending, genre-bending and the rendering of identity in Barbara Wilson's Gaudi afternoon / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Subject to interrogation / Jeffrey Langham -- Rose by any other name / Michelle Pagni Stewart -- Unraveling intermarriage in Faye Kellerman's detective fiction / Laurence Roth -- Do we need another hero? / Caroline Reitz -- Un-easy relationship / John Cullen Gruesser -- Bubblegum metaphysics / Priscilla L. Walton -- Chester Himes and the institutionalization of multicultural detective fiction / David Schmid -- Maybe I killed my own blood / William R. Nash -- Harlem heteroglossia / Adrienne Johnson Gosselin.