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Nothing but murders and bloodshed and hanging : stories of crime and detection by a pioneering Victorian mystery writer / Mary Fortune ; edited and introduced by Lucy Sussex & Megan Brown.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.2.F67 N68 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fortune, Mary, 1833?-1911, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Stories of crime and detection by a pioneering Victorian mystery writer
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Oregon : Verse Chorus Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A selection of Mary Fortune's crime stories, which comprise the first detective fiction series written by a woman. Set in the outback, on the goldfields, and in the burgeoning metropolis of Melbourne, her stories offer a vivid account of life and death in colonial-era Australia. Fortune tackled subjects such as murder, armed robbery, bootlegging, and sexual violence with a frankness unprecedented for a woman in the 19th century, in styles ranging from melodrama and Gothic horror to social realism and what is now termed noir"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fortune, Mary, 1833?-1911. Nothing but murders and bloodshed and hanging
- ISBN:
- 9781959163091
- 1959163094
- OCLC:
- 1478945468
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