The literature of roguery
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER XIII Histories of literature ignore detective fiction, and it has been accorded but slight treatment in the magazines. The most suggestive article upon this theme -- H. L. Wil...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER XIII Histories of literature ignore detective fiction, and it has been accorded but slight treatment in the magazines. The most suggestive article upon this theme -- H. L. Williams's Germ of the Detective Novel (Book-Buyer, 21: 268) -- is tantalizing by what it omits. A. B. Maurice in The Detective in Fiction (Bookman, 15: 231) classifies the sleuth according to his social caste. M. Thornton Armstrong in The Detective Story (Editor, 23: 5) very briefly outlines the requirements of the genre. Most other notices are worthless, although The Scientific Detection of Crime (Green Bag, 3: 288), Criminals and their Detection (New Review, 9: 65), and Fiction and Crime (Saturday Review, 62: 349) may be consulted. I am chiefly indebted to an unpublished essay, The Detective Story, prepared under my direction by Mr. Frank de Raismes Storey, a former pupil. Gaboriau is discussed in The Sensational Serial (Living Age, 230:129), and in A. E. Gathorne-Hardy's Novels of Gaboriau (National Review, 3: 591). Captain W. L. Melville Lee's History of Police in England (1901), Major Griffiths's Mysteries of Police and Crime (1899), P. H. Fitzgerald's Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office (1888, 2 vols.), G. S. McWatters's Detectives of Europe and America (1883), and Patrick Colquhoun's Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis (London, 1806, 7th ed.) afford historical side-lights on the rise of the detective story. Poe's contribution is considered by Brainler Matthews (ScrUmer's, 42: 3). His analytical powers are examined in C. O. Hurd's The Logic of the Murders in the Rue Morgue (Harvard Monthly, 1:7), but his biographers have not investigated his detective fiction as to source or influence. Wilkie Collins is noticed in A. C. Swinburne's Studies in Prose and Poetr...
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