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The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories / edited by Michael Sims.
Van Pelt Library PR1309.D4 D35 2012
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Sims Dead
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- English fiction--19th century.
- English fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- American fiction--19th century.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 576 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories
- Victorian detective stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Co., [2012]
- Summary:
- "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
- The secret cell / by William E. Burton
- The murders in the Rue Morgue / by Edgar Allan Poe
- On duty with Inspector Field / by Charles Dickens
- The diary of Anne Rodway / by Wilkie Collins
- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / by Alexandre Dumas
- Arrested on suspicion / by Andrew Forrester Jr.
- The dead witness; or, The bush waterhole / by W. W. (Mary Fortune)
- The mysterious human leg / by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman)
- The little old man of Batignolles / by Émile Gaboriau
- The science of deduction / by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Whitechapel mystery / by Anonymous
- The assassin's natal autograph / by Mark Twain
- The murder at Troyte's Hill / by C. L. Pirkis
- The Haverstock Hill murder / by George R. Sims
- The stolen cigar-case / by Bret Harte
- The absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr
- The hammer of God / by G. K. Chesterton
- The angel of the lord / by Melville Davisson Post
- The crime at Big Tree Portage / by Hesketh Prichard
- The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / by Ernest Bramah
- The case of Padages Palmer / by Harvey O'Higgins
- An intangible clue / by Anna Katharine Green.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Barry F. Wiksten book fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0802779182
- OCLC:
- 727704130
- Publisher Number:
- 99948678522
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