Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story by Leroy Lad Panek

Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story

Leroy Lad Panek

219 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction mysterious medium-paced
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Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and a handful of other writers. The 19th century was actually awash i...

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