Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popu

Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collin

From the great raconteur of the American underworld, and author of The Gangs of New York, comes Sucker’s Progress: An Information History of Gambling in Ameri