A short time previous to his death, he confessed the crime
June 27, 2016 7:51 PM   Subscribe

The Westminster Detective Library plans to "to catalog and make available online all the short fiction dealing with detectives and detection published in the United States before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'A Scandal in Bohemia' (1891)." (This includes fiction originally published in the UK and Europe but reprinted in the USA.) Title, author, date, and full-text searches are all available. At present, the earliest tale available is from 1824.

For useful context, see Christopher Pittard's Victorian Detective Fiction: An Introduction and the British Library's overview of crime fiction in the nineteenth-century UK. More nineteenth-century fiction in this vein appears at Gaslight (also home to ghost stories).
posted by thomas j wise (8 comments total) 37 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh. Oh yes. Oh my.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 7:59 PM on June 27, 2016 [1 favorite]


I am here for this.
posted by kassila at 8:29 PM on June 27, 2016


Hells yes. Thank you so much.
posted by Palindromedary at 8:31 PM on June 27, 2016


SPOILER: THE BUTLER DID IT
posted by entropicamericana at 9:47 PM on June 27, 2016 [2 favorites]


boy, I'd love this in an ebook.
posted by lkc at 10:25 PM on June 27, 2016 [1 favorite]


Oh my god, this is awesome!
posted by BibiRose at 8:57 AM on June 28, 2016


I've been on a kick of reading 1800's detective and ghost stories lately, this is great.
posted by bongo_x at 12:56 PM on June 28, 2016


This is great; thanks for posting it!
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:34 AM on June 29, 2016


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