| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Pt. 1 | Sexual Murder: Weimar Germany and Its Cultural Legacy | |
| Ch. 1 | Morbid Curiosity: Why Lustmord? | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | "Ask Mother": The Construction of Sexual Murder | 20 |
| Ch. 3 | Crime, Contagion, and Containment: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic | 41 |
| Pt. 2 | Case Studies | |
| Ch. 4 | Fighting for Life: Figurations of War, Women, and the City in the Work of Otto Dix | 68 |
| Ch. 5 | Life in the Combat Zone: Military and Sexual Anxieties in the Work of George Grosz | 98 |
| Ch. 6 | The Corpse Vanishes: Gender, Violence, and Agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz | 132 |
| Ch. 7 | The Killer as Victim: Fritz Lang's M | 153 |
| Ch. 8 | Reinventions: Murder in the Name of Art | 173 |
| Notes | 185 |
| Index | 209 |
