Before Sherlock Holmes how magazines and newspapers invented the detective story

• Main Author: Panek, LeRoy
• Format: Unknown
• Published: Jefferson, NC McFarland 2011
• Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism > 19th century; American fiction > History and criticism > 19th century; Periodicals > Publishing > History > 19th century > United States; American periodicals > History > 19th century; Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism > History > 20th century > Great Britain; English fiction > History and criticism > 19th century; Periodicals > Publishing > History > 20th century > Great Britain; English periodicals > History > 19th century; Detectives in literature; Crime in literature > History and criticism > 19th century
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"This volume surveys the first fifty years of the detective story in nineteenth-century America and England, examining not only major works, but also the lesser known--including contemporary pseudo-biographies, magazines, story papers, and newspapers--r

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Life before detectives
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Notebooks
• Charles Dickens
• Collins and the sensation novel
• Magazines and family story papers
• Newspaper detectives.