Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology

by Michael Cox

Book Overview

The Victorian era saw the first great flowering of the detective story. Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, J.S. LeFanu, and a host of others pioneered a genre of fiction that remains among the most popular today. Now, in Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection, Michael Cox provides a sampling of the finest detective stories written from the 1840s to the early twentieth century.
Here readers will find a vast...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192123084
• ISBN13: 9780192123084
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

a fascinating collection of mysteries

So fascinating a collection that I ordered it twice for the pleasure of having it in two formats. Too bad it is not always available or easily available as a new item. A must have for lovers of the genre and novices alike. Excellent intoductory section. Highly recommended.

Very enjoyable and worth every penny.

If you like a good, old-fashioned mystery, this is the book for you. I expected that I would have read most of these, but I was surprised to find many unfamiliar stories, along with a few familiar (but very good) ones. I was sorry to come to the end.