| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract(in English) | 第8-9页 |
| Abstract(in Chinese) | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Greene as a Writer of Detective Fiction | 第12-24页 |
| ·Graham Greene and His Works | 第12-16页 |
| ·A Brief History of Anglo-American Detective Fiction | 第16-19页 |
| ·Greene's Works with Elements of Detective Fiction | 第19-24页 |
| Chapter Two Detective Fiction Elements as Necessities in"Entertainments" | 第24-39页 |
| ·Poe's Shadow in The Third Man | 第24-29页 |
| ·The Inheritance of the Plot Formula | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Method of Deduction:The Fragmentation of Knowledge and Reconstruction | 第26-29页 |
| ·Characterization in The Third Man | 第29-33页 |
| ·The Detective and the Sidekick | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Overlap between the Criminal and the Victim | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Insertion of Other Elements of Detective Fiction | 第33-39页 |
| ·Setting:An Isolated Greeneland | 第33-35页 |
| ·Suspense:A Stimulus for Reading | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Backward Narration:The Pleasure of Delay | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Three Detective Fiction Elements as Appetizers in "Novels" | 第39-54页 |
| ·The Plot Formula of Detective Fiction in The Quiet American | 第39-44页 |
| ·Point of View:An Accomplice as the Narrator | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Plot Development:Backward Construction as a Strategy | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Devaluation of the Story of Investigation | 第43-44页 |
| ·Characterization in The Quiet American | 第44-50页 |
| ·The Devaluation of the Criminals and the Victim | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Devaluation of the Detective as a Hero | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Significance of the Devaluation of Characterization | 第48-50页 |
| ·Double Pursuit of Greene:The Popularity and the Moral Significance | 第50-54页 |
| Chapter Four The Significance of Greene's Innovative Storytelling | 第54-65页 |
| ·Greene's Paradoxical Dichotomy:A Blend of the Popular Form and the Serious Motif | 第54-59页 |
| ·The Strategy of Postmodernist Fictional Writing:Erasure of the Highbrow and the Lowbrow | 第59-62页 |
| ·Greene as One of Forerunners of Postmodernism | 第62-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-66页 |
| Notes | 第66-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-75页 |
| 附录 | 第75页 |
