TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clarke,C.
TI  - Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
T2  - Crime Files Series
SN  - 9780230390546
AV  - PN3311-3503 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
KW  - English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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