false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178784614m/837432.jpg 837432 1 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. Now, in Victorian Tales of Mystery and<br>Detection, Michael Cox provides a sampling of the finest detective stories written from the 1840s to the early twentieth century.<br> Here readers will find a vast array of detectives and villains, and a multitude of murder methods and motives. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Purloined Letter," the identity of the robber is known from the start--it is the surreptitious retrieval of the letter that is the mystery. In M. McDonnell<br>Bodkin's "Murder By Proxy," a gentleman is shot in the head at close range, by a murderer who was not even in the same room. Charles Dickens's "Hunted Down" portrays a murderer who was slowly poisoning his very own nieces for their insurance money. And in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost<br>Special," a train and its passengers vanish in thin air. In addition, Cox (who is rapidly becoming one of the foremost experts on Victorian popular fiction) arranges the stories in chronological order so that readers can follow the genre as it develops over time. For instance, in Conan Doyle's<br>"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" we see an example of the many Sherlock Holmes escapades that popularized and came to typify the detective story for the Victorian public. And in the progression of the stories, we witness the evolution of the investigator from Poe's brilliant and eccentric<br>Chevalier C. August Dupin, to Doyle's scientific Sherlock Holmes, into Robert Barr's cavalier Valmont (a possible model for Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot).<br> Including well-known stories by famous authors, as well as little known gems reprinted for the first time, Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection not only offers hours of enjoyment and escape for all lovers of crime fiction, but also brings alive the society, language, the sights, and sounds<br>of the Victorian age.<br> Contents 1. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe 2. The Murdered Cousin by J. S. Le Fanu 3. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens 4. Levison’s Victim by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 5. The Mystery at Number Seven by Mrs Henry Wood 6. The Going Out of Alessandro Pozzone by Richard Dowling 7. Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins 8. A Circumstantial Puzzle by R. E. Francillon 9. The Mystery of Essex Stairs by Sir Gilbert Campbell 10. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 11. The Great Ruby Robbery by Grant Allen 12. The Sapient Monkey by Headon Hill 13. Cheating the Gallows by Israel Zangwill 14. Drawn Daggers by C. L. Pirkis 15. The Greenstone God and the Stockbroker by Fergus Hume 16. The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur by L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace 17. The Accusing Shadow by Harry Blyth 18. The Ivy Cottage Mystery by Arthur Morrison 19. The Azteck Opal by Rodrigues Ottolengui 20. The Long Arm by Mary E. Wilkins 21. The Case of Euphemia Raphash by M. P. Shiel 22. The Tin Box by Herbert Keen 23. Murder by Proxy by M. McDonnell Bodkin 24. The Duchess of Wiltshire’s Diamonds by Guy Boothby 25. The Story of The Spaniards, Hammersmith by E. and H. Heron 26. The Lost Special by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 27. The Banknote Forger by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 28. A Warning in Red by Victor L. Whitechurch & E. Conway 29. The Fenchurch Street Mystery by Baroness Orczy 30. The Green Spider by Sax Rohmer 31. 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