Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology by Michael Cox

Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology

Michael Cox with Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Headon Hill, Israel Zangwill, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Fergus Hume, L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Harry Blyth, Arthur Morrison, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rodrigues Ottolengui, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, M.P. Shiel, Herbert Keen, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Newell Boothby, E. Heron, H. Heron, Victor L. Whitechurch, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Richard Dowling, Robert Edward Francillon, Gilbert Campbell, E. Conway, H. Hesketh-Prichard, Kate Prichard, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Baroness Orczy

578 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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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. LeFanu, and a host of others pioneered a genre of fiction that remains among the most popular today....

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