Showing posts with label 19th century mystery/crime fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th century mystery/crime fiction. Show all posts
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Catching up in double time: The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov and Mr. Digweed and Mr. Lumb, by Eden Philpotts

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Since I was last here there's been more calamity here at casa mia,  but things are starting to look up and life is moving on in a more p...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

*Detective Muller: Imperial Austrian Police, Volumes 1 and 2, by Augusta Groner

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In the early 1890s, a woman in Austria who had only started writing crime in her 40s introduced a new detective, Detective Joseph Müller, a ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

*Prince Zaleski, by M.P. Shiel

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9781934555033 Valancourt Books, 2010 originally published 1895 84 pp paperback With Prince Zaleski , my time in the 1890s and the ni...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

*Miss Cayley's Adventures, by Grant Allen

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9781934555439 Valancourt Books, 2016 originally serialized in The Strand , 1898-1899 220 pp paperback " I am an adventuress .....
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

*huzzah for the ladies: The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

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9781434440549 Wildside Press, 2012 originally serialized in Ludgate Monthly  (1893)    (minus "Missing"); published 1894 142...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

*The Dorrington Deed-Box, by Arthur Morrison

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9781479423873 Wildside Press, 2016 originally serialized in The Windsor Magazine , January - June 1897 originally published in 1897 by ...
Friday, December 29, 2017

*and finally, A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780140439083 Penguin Classics, 2001 originally published 1887 144 pp paperback "There's the scarlet thread of murder runn...

* and another.... The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, by Fergus Hume

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0701210133 Hogarth Press, 1985 originally published 1886 224 pp paperback "...life is a chessboard, after all, and we are the ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

*...and diving into the 1880s: Devlin the Barber, by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

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9781540370426 createspace, 2016 originally published 1888, Ward and Downey 202 pp paperback "... the ends of justice are some...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

*closing out the 1870s: The Leavenworth Case, by Anna Katherine Green

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9780143106128 Penguin, 2010 originally published 1878 326 pp paperback No look back at early crime/detective/mystery fiction would ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

*talk about fake news: The Mystery of the Sintra Road, by Eça de Queiróz and Ramalho Ortigão

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9781909232297 Dedalus, 2013 originally published in 1870 as O misté rio da estrada Sintra translated by Margaret Jull Costa and N...
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Monday, November 20, 2017

*Checkmate, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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0750914696 Pocket Classics, 2000 originally published 1871 339 pp paperback " You have played your game well, but with all th...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

*...and with great regret, we say goodbye to the 1860s: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins

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9780375757853 Modern Library, 2001 originally serialized in All the Year Round, 1868 496 pp paperback " The detective-fever ...
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