Clarke, C. <br/><br/>
Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (230 pages) 
 - Crime Files Series .
 - Crime Files Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 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) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230390546 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.<br/>English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3311-3503