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The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories / edited by Michael Sims.

The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories / edited by Michael Sims.
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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-
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