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

608 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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