A short time previous to his death, he confessed the crime
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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).
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).
Hells yes. Thank you so much.
posted by Palindromedary at 8:31 PM on June 27, 2016
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]
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]
posted by lkc at 10:25 PM on June 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
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
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
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:34 AM on June 29, 2016
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