The Dead Witness
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
(Sprache: Englisch)
The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
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The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
The best Victorian detective stories, now in a scintillating new collection by the acclaimed editor of Dracula's Guest.
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The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems.'The Dead Witness', the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn manhunt in the Outback. This forgotten treasure sets the tone for the whole anthology as surprises appear from every direction, including more female detectives and authors than you can find in any other anthology of its kind. Pioneer women writers such as Anna Katharine Green, Mary E. Wilkins and C. L. Pirkis take you from rural America to bustling London, introducing you to female detectives from Loveday Brooke to Dorcas Dene and Madelyn Mack. In other stories, you will meet November Joe, the Canadian half-Native backwoods detective who stars in 'The Crime at Big Tree Portage' and demonstrates that Sherlockian attention to detail works as well in the woods as in the city. Holmes himself is here, too, of course - not in another reprint though - but in the first two chapters of A Study in Scarlet, the first Holmes case, in which the great man meets and dazzles Watson. Authors range from luminaries such as Charles Dickens to the forgotten author who helped inspire Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', the first real detective story. Bret Harte is here as is E. W. Hornung, creator of master thief Raffles. Naturally Wilkie Collins couldn't be left behind. Michael Sims's new collection reveals the fascinating and entertaining youth of what would mature into the most popular genre of the twentieth century.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Sims
Michael Sims's six acclaimed non-fiction books include The Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The Story of Charlotte's Web, and Adam's Navel, and he edits the Connoisseur's Collection anthology series, which includes Dracula's Guest, The Dead Witness, The Phantom Coach, and the forthcoming Frankenstein Dreams. His writing has appeared in New Statesman, New York Times, Washington Post, and many other periodicals. He appears often on NPR, BBC, and other networks. He lives in Pennsylvania.michaelsimsbooks.com
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Sims
- 2012, 608 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408822008
- ISBN-13: 9781408822005
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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A masterful collection of Victorian detective stories... Sims gives a smart preface to each story and then allows the mysteries to unfurl ... This collection is pure chocolate box indulgence The Times Praise for Dracula's Guest: 'This creepy conoisseur's collection of Victorian vampire stories is PACKED with pointy-toothed blood-suckers and gruesome ghastliness ... Think Christopher Lee in his coffin, red eyes snapping open, dust off your wooden stake and garlic necklace, and blame the 18th century Eastern Europeans whose peasant superstitions spawned the whole gory vampire genre' Daily Mail 'Long before vampires were sparkly and romantic, they were actually scary. This collection brings together some of the Victorian era's most chilling bloodsucker fiction' Entertainment Weekly In The Dead Witness, editor Michael Sims collects some excellent well-known and lesser-known examples of Victorian detective fiction ... each is expertly introduced by Michael Sims Daily Beast
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