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

608 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction mystery short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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....

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 3 reviews

Average rating

4.0

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.