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1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks, Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew.- 2. "One Fixed Point in a Changing Age" Reframing the Sidekick, Michelle D. Miranda.- 3. "Passed by unnoticed" Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, Oriah Amit.- 4. "...always with the Inspector" The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian 'Detective Literature', 1845-1887, Samuel Saunders.- 5. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson" Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson, Annette Wren.- 6. "A Look of Doglike Devotion'" Hercule Poirot's Stooges and Foils', J. C. Bernthal.- 7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan.- 8. "Pretty, but not so pretty..." Marlowe's Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction, Alexander Howe.- 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mysteries, Nathan Ashman.- 10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family, Kwasu Tembo.- 11. "I'm gonna be the best friend you could ever hope for-and the worst enemy you could ever imagine." Frank Miller's All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative, Lucy Andrew.- 12. "World's long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives" Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexter's Sidekicks, David Bishop.- 13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits: Otherness in the Wells and Wong series, Alice Nuttall.- 14. Sherlock's Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick, Dominique Gracia.
