Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection

Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection
Author: Michael Cox
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: UCSC:32106010485719

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Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, M.P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and - inevitably - Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentleman amateurs, lady detectives (such as Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brooke), professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (Guy Boothby's Klimo, who devises a crime for himself to solve), and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade. These stories offer hours of enjoyable escape for all lovers of crime fiction.

Detection by Gaslight

Detection by Gaslight
Author: Douglas G. Greene
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780486114125

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Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories

The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 578
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0192804480

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Short, enticing tales of mystery and detection were part of the Victorian readers' staple diet. The detective story celebrated the human ability to explain and comprehend. In this entertaining anthology, Michael Cox has assembled a wide-ranging selection of 31 stories from authors such as J.S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, M.P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and, inevitably, Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentlemen amateurs, lady detectives, professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (who devises a crime for himself to solve) and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course, murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade.

The Ascent of the Detective

The Ascent of the Detective
Author: Haia Shpayer-Makov
Publsiher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780199577408

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Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.

War On Wealth The Fact And Fiction In British Finance Since 1800

War On Wealth  The  Fact And Fiction In British Finance Since 1800
Author: Ranald Michie
Publsiher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789811270741

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This book addresses the divide that exists between the reality of finance and the image it projects. A functioning financial system is an essential feature of a modern economy, providing it with money, credit, capital, and investments. Conversely, those who provide this essential service are neither respected nor trusted. The causes and consequences of this divide is explored using the British experience from 1800 to the present, drawing upon a mixture of factual evidence and contemporary fiction. Nothing of this scale has been attempted before and this is the product of 50 years of research.

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
Author: C. Clarke
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780230390546

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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

The Invention of Murder How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

The Invention of Murder  How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Author: Judith Flanders
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780007352470

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“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox,R. A. Gilbert
Publsiher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2003
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780192804471

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Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.