The Dead Witness : : a Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories

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Call Number: Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction: Prophets looking backward / Michael Sims -- Secret cell / William E. Burton -- Murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- On duty with Inspector Field / Charles Dickens -- Diary of Anne Rodway / Wilkie Collins -- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / Alexandre Dumas -- Arrested on suspicion / Andrew Forrester Jr. -- Dead witness; or, Bush waterhole / W. W. (Mary Fortune) -- Mysterious human leg / James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) -- Little old man of Batignolles / Émile Gaboriau -- Science of deduction / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Whitechapel mystery / Anonymous -- Assassin's natal autograph / Mark Twain -- Murder at Troyte's Hill / C. L. Pirkis -- Haverstock Hill murder / George R. Sims -- Stolen cigar-case / Bret Harte -- Absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr -- Hammer of God / G. K. Chesterton -- Angel of the lord / Melville Davisson Post -- Crime at Big Tree Portage / Hesketh Prichard -- Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / Ernest Bramah -- Case of Padages Palmer / Harvey O'Higgins -- An intangible clue / Anna Katharine Green.
"A scintillating new collection of the best Victorian detective stories--as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today!"--P. [4] of cover.

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mystery submitted by a2saab on June 14, 2015, 6:15pm great book with flowing sentences and action