The sign of three Dupin, Holmes, Peirce - Eco, Umberto; Sebeok, Thomas Albert 1920- (Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1988)
Preface / Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok -- Abbreviations in the Text / Thomas A. Sebeok -- 1 One, Two, Three Spells UBERTY / Thomas A. Sebeok -- 2 "You Know My Method": A Juxtaposition of Charles S. Pierce and Sherlock Holmes / Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok -- 3 Sherlock Holmes: Applied Social Psychologist / Marcello Truzzi -- 4 Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method / Carlo Ginzburg -- 5 To Guess or Not To Guess? / Massimo A. Bonfantini and Giampaolo Proni -- 6 Peirce, Holmes, Popper / Gian Palol Carettini -- 7 Sherlock Holmes Confronts Modern Logic: Toward a Theory of Information-Seeking through Questioning / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka -- 8 Sherlock Holmes Formalized Jaakko-Hintikka -- 9 The Body of the Dectective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz -- 10 Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypothesis on Three Types of Abduction / Umberto Eco -- References.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236)
Keywords: Doyle, Arthur Conan -- Sir -- 1859-1930 -- Characters -- Sherlock Holmes; Poe, Edgar Allan -- 1809-1849 -- Characters -- Auguste Dupin; Peirce, Charles S. -- 1839-1914.; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Criminal investigation in literature; Logic in literature; Semiotics