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The 1880s and 1890s were the years in which detective fiction firmly established itself as a genre and sealed its popularity with the reading public. "Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, 1885-1900" investigates representations of detectives and criminals in both canoni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarke, Clare (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1.'Ordinary Secret Sinners': Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886).
  • 2.'The most popular book of modern times': Fergus Hume's "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1886).
  • 3.'"L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout"': the Sherlock Holmes stories and work.
  • 4.Something for 'the silly season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's "The Big Bow Mystery "(1891).
  • 5.Tales of 'mean streets': the criminal-detective in Arthur Morrison's "The Dorrington Deed-Box" (1897).
  • 6.A Criminal in Disguise': class and empire in Guy Boothby's "A Prince of Swindlers" (1897).