Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology by Michael Cox

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

578 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....