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Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

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ISBN-10: 0192141872

ISBN-13: 9780192141873

Edition: 1990

Authors: Patricia Craig

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The detective story, with its roots in Poe's Chevalier Dupin mysteries and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, first achieved mass popularity in the 1890s with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Its success has a good deal to do with its pungency, and with its power to intrigue and absorb the reader while abiding by the rules of the genre (however flexible these have become). Every age has produced a kind of detective fiction which exemplifies its distinctive manners and customs, from the sedate tales which began to appear in the wake of Sherlock Holmes to the debonair detection of the 1920s and after. The sleuth short story took off in many directions, with such writers as Anthony Berkeley,…    
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Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/30/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.82" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Introduction
The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal
Silver Blaze
The Mysterious Visitor
The Case of Laker, Absconded
The Oracle of the Dog
The Genuine Tabard
The Dead Leaves
The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express
The Purple Line
Solved by Inspection
The Henpecked Murderer
Superintendent Wilson's Holiday
The Witness for the Prosecution
The Avenging Chance
Murder at Pentecost
Death on the Air
Miss Burnside's Dilemma
Daisy Bell
Three is a Lucky Number
The Assassins' Club
The House in Goblin Wood
The Furies
The Hornets' Nest
The Murderer
The Killing of Michael Finnegan
Murder at St Oswald's
Great Aunt Allie's Flypapers
Baker Dies
A Dangerous Thing
Thornapple
The Oxford Way of Death
Bring Back the Cat!
How's Your Mother?
Acknowledgements
Biographical Notes
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