Victorian Detective Stories: An Oxford Anthology
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The Victorian era saw the first great flowering of the detective story. Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, J.S. Le Fanu, and a host of others pioneered a genre of fiction that remains among the most popular today. Now, in Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection, Michael Cox provides a sampling of the finest detective stories written from the 1840s to the early twentieth century.
Here readers will find tales displaying a vast array of detectives and villains--and a multitude of murder methods and motives--all chronologically arranged so that readers can follow the genre as it develops
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 4 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 019283150X | ISBN-13: 9780192831507
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Release date: 4 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 019283150X | ISBN-13: 9780192831507

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