This collection includes three versions of the manuscript for Thomas’ work, Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (1999). The earliest of the three manuscripts is titled, Investigating Bodies: Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction and the Devices of Truth while the remaining two are titled Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. Also included are a floppy disk with the final version of the manuscript from 1998; an invitation to a book signing at the Gallows Hill Bookstore on the Trinity College Campus; and a letter regarding the cost to use a photograph from the 1946 movie, The Big Sleep as an illustration in the book.