Rich, varied collection of 14 extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories, many never before published in book form: Kipling's "The Return of Imray"; "The Tragedy of the Life Raft" by Jacques Futrelle; "The Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle; p
This work contains the following stories:Max Pemberton: 'The Ripening Rubies'Arthur Morrison: 'The Case of Laker, Absconded'Guy Boothby: 'The Dutchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds'Arthur Morrison: 'The Affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Ltd"'Cliffor
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
While Sherlock Holmes pooh-poohed the notion that the supernatural could invade our daily lives, not all fictional detectives have. There is a long history of literary sleuths who accept the reality of those supernatural intrusions in order to solve a cas
