The dead witness a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories
(2012)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/DEAD/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Walker & Co., [2012]
©2012
©2012
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
xxix, 576 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802779182, 0802779182, 0802779182 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A scintillating new collection of the best Victorian detective stories--as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today!"--P. [4] of cover
CONTENTS
Introduction: Prophets looking backward /
by Michael Sims --
Secret cell /
by William E. Burton --
Murders in the Rue Morgue /
by Edgar Allan Poe --
On duty with Inspector Field /
by Charles Dickens --
Diary of Anne Rodway /
by Wilkie Collins --
You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan /
by Alexandre Dumas --
Arrested on suspicion /
by Andrew Forrester Jr. --
Dead witness; or, The bush waterhole /
by W. W. (Mary Fortune) --
Mysterious human leg /
by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) --
Little old man of Batignolles /
by Émile Gaboriau --
Science of deduction /
by Arthur Conan Doyle --
Whitechapel mystery /
by Anonymous --
Assassin's natal autograph /
by Mark Twain --
Murder at Troyte's Hill /
by C. L. Pirkis --
Haverstock Hill murder /
by George R. Sims --
Stolen cigar-case /
by Bret Harte --
Absent-minded coterie /
by Robert Barr --
Hammer of God /
by G. K. Chesterton --
Angel of the lord /
by Melville Davisson Post --
Crime at Big Tree Portage /
by Hesketh Prichard --
Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage /
by Ernest Bramah --
Case of Padages Palmer /
by Harvey O'Higgins --
An intangible clue /
by Anna Katharine Green