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The Dead Witness
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories edited by Michael Sims for mystery lovers. There are short summaries on both well-known writers and obscure ones before the stories that are fascinating. One mentions that Wilkie Collins younger brother married Charles Dickens daughter, so all kinds of interesting stuff that I hadn't known. It isn't on this site, but can be found at the library.
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It also has the first mystery story written by a woman.
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A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories, editor Michael Sims examines the nascence of crime writing in the late 19th century, revisiting such icons as Holmes and Dupin and introducing readers to a raft of lesser-known writers, many of them women.
Mar 30, 2012 12:00 am
by Strouthern