Showing posts with label history of mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of mystery. Show all posts
Thursday, September 27, 2018

*Trent's Last Case, by E.C. Bentley

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9780008216269 Harper Collins, Detective Story Club, 2017 originally published 1913 212 pp hardcover " This mystery is all wro...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

*2 Detectives: Astro, the Master of Mysteries, by Gelett Burgess and Dr. Xavier Wycherley, The Mind-Reader, by Max Rittenberg

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9781616461034 Coachwhip Publications, 2011 622 pp paperback My latest stop along my journey into crime/mystery fiction of yeste...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

*Scientific detectives of yesteryear

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" There is a distinct place for science in the detection of crime ."                                                         --...
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...
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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