Shortcuts
Top of page (Alt+0)
Page content (Alt+9)
Page menu (Alt+8)
Your browser does not support javascript, some WebOpac functionallity will not be available.
.
Default
.
PageMenu
-
Main Menu
-
Languages
English
.
Members
My Account
.
Join the Library
.
eLibrary
.
Gale Databases
.
Logout
.
Search The Catalogue
Basic Search
.
Advanced Search
.
Magazine Search
.
New Items Search
.
New Items List
.
Useful Links
Library Home Page
.
Print a Document
.
Book a Public Computer
.
Add Credit to Library Card
.
eLibrary
.
© LIBERO v6.4.1sp240206
Page content
You are here
:
>
Basic Search
Catalogue Display
Catalogue Display
The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories / edited by Michael Sims.
.
LibraryThing
.
Browse Shelf
Catalogue Record 784492
.
Item Information
Catalogue Record 784492
.
Catalogue Information
Catalogue Record 784492
.
.
Item Information
Shelf Location
Collection
Volume Ref.
Branch
Status
Due Date
AF DEAD
Adult Fiction
Campsie
.
.
Available
.
Reserve any copy Click Here
Catalogue Record 784492
.
Catalogue Record 784492 ItemInfo
.
Catalogue Record 784492 ItemInfo
Top of page
.
Catalogue Information
Field name
Details
ISBN
9781408818633 (hbk.)
1408818639 (hbk.)
Title
The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories / edited by Michael Sims.
Published
London : Bloomsbury, 2011
Description
xxix, 576 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The secret cell / William E. Burton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- On duty with Inspector Field / Charles Dickens -- The diary of Anne Rodway / Wilkie Collins -- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / Alexandre Dumas, père -- Arrested on suspicion / Andrew Forrester Jr -- The dead witness ; or The bush waterhole / W.W. (Mary Fortune) -- The mysterious human leg / James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) -- The little old man of Batifnolles / Émile Gaboriau -- The science of deduction / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Whitechapel mystery / Anonymous -- The assassin's natal autograph / Mark Twain -- The murder at Troyte's Hill / C.L. Pirkis -- The Haverstock Hill murder / George R. Sims -- The stolen cigar-case / Bret Harte -- The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr -- The hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton -- The angel of the Lord / Melville Davisson Post -- The crime at Big Tree Portage / Hesketh Prichard -- The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / Ernest Bramah -- The case of Padages Palmer / Harvey O'Higgins -- An intangible clue / Anna Katharine Green
Summary
The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems.
Genre
Detective and mystery fiction
Short stories
Other Names
Sims, Michael, 1958-
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
Detective and mystery fiction
.
Short stories
.
See Also:
Adventure stories
.
Ghost stories
.
Horror tales
.
Fiction
.
Broader Subject References:
Fiction
.
Authors:
Sims, Michael, 1958-
.
.
Related Searches
Catalogue Record 784492
.
Add Title to Basket
Catalogue Record 784492
.
Catalogue Information 784492
.
Catalogue Information 784492
Top of page
.
Quick Search
Search for