The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction by Heather Worthington

The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction

Heather Worthington

216 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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Detective fiction's real origins lurk in the popular press of the early nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, including Collins and Dickens, drew on this materi...

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