Introduction: ǂt The design of this book -- ǂg 1. ǂt The study of literary formulas -- ǂg 2. ǂt Notes toward a typology of literary formulas -- ǂg 3. ǂt The mythology of crime and its formulaic embodiments -- ǂg 4. ǂt The formula of the classical detective story -- ǂg 5. ǂt The …