This title was first published in 1999 & examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of Edward VII an

The exploits of the great Victorian Detectives, Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, Gaboriau's Lecoq, and most famously, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, are well know

The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both

Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many nev

This volume is the first major study to investigate many of the canonical and less-canonical writers of detective literature. It focuses on such major figures a