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Detective Stories from the Strand

Jack Adrian
Detective Stories from the Strand Book PDF

Author : Jack Adrian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : UVA:X002186035

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The Strand Magazine, launched in January 1891, was one of the most successful and influential popular magazines of all time. Making its mark immediately with the publication of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, the magazine continued to publish high-quality detective fiction for half a million readers until 1950. Now, in the centenary of its launch, this collection offers twenty-five classic stories of mystery and detection, all first published in the Strand. It features tales of some of the most celebrated detectives of all time--Agatha Christie's Poirot, G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, and E.C. Bentley's Philip Trent--as well as stories from Sapper, Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Aldous Huxley, and A.E.W. Mason. And, of course, this volume would not be complete without Sherlock Holmes, who makes his appearance in three classic cases. With little-known stories by famous authors, and ingenious works by almost-forgotten writers, Detective Stories from the Strand is a treasure trove of remarkable ingenuity, guaranteed to delight all enthusiasts of crime fiction.

The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories

L.T. Meade
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Author : L.T. Meade
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554811489

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In 1898, The Strand Magazine, one of the most influential publications of the Victorian fin de siècle, deemed best-selling author and editor L.T. Meade a literary “celebrity” and “one of the most industrious writers of modern fiction.” Beginning in 1893 and continuing into the first decade of the twentieth century, Meade’s medical mysteries and thrilling tales of dangerous criminal women appeared in The Strand. There they competed successfully not only with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but also with the works of the most popular writers of the day. The Sorceress of the Strand is one of Meade’s most compelling mysteries, and the first to feature the seductive criminal genius Madame Sara. The Sorceress of the Strand is accompanied in this edition by three other popular stories featuring powerful female criminal protagonists, from gang leaders to spies and terrorists. The historical appendices expand on the stories’ themes of criminality, gender, and political activism. Twenty-eight of the original periodical illustrations are included.

Stories from the Diary of a Doctor (12 Mysteries from the Strand Magazine)

Clifford Halifax,L. T. Meade
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Author : Clifford Halifax,L. T. Meade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1549566911

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Stories from the Diary of a Doctor (12 Mysteries from the Strand Magazine) by Clifford Halifax,L. T. Meade Pdf

Stories from the Diary of a Doctor - a collection of 12 Victorian mystery/detective stories from the Strand Magazine: My First Patient, My Hypnotic Patient, Very Far West, The Heir of Chartelpool, A Death Certificate, The Wrong Prescription, The Horror of Studley Grange (illustrated), Ten Years' Oblivion, An Oak Coffin, Without Witnesses, Trapped, The Ponsonby Diamonds.Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914) was a prolific writer of girls' stories as well as a contributor to Victorian periodicals. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime. Her most famous book was A World of Girls, published in 1886. She was also the editor of a popular girls' magazine, Atalanta.With Clifford Halifax, M.D., she wrote 'Stories from the Diary of a Doctor', first published in The Strand Magazine, then released in book form in 1894. A second series appeared in 1896. The Diary of a Doctor series has been likened to Sherlock Holmes - the first instalment, My First Patient, appeared in the July 1893 edition of The Strand Magazine, alongside Conan-Doyle's Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Crooked Man'.The Literary News had this to say on the collection of stories: Twelve stories, presenting some cases supposed to have come under the direct attention of a young London physician. It is claimed by their collaborating authors that several of the tales included are founded on actual experience, and that all have been written with a close observance to medical facts, and in accordance with the advances made in surgery during the last decade.

An Introduction to the Detective Story

LeRoy Panek
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Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879723785

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An Introduction to the Detective Story by LeRoy Panek Pdf

This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally broken ground in terms of aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue.

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Dr Christopher Pittard
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Author : Dr Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478829

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Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.

British Detective Fiction 1891–1901

Clare Clarke
British Detective Fiction 1891 1901 Book PDF

Author : Clare Clarke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137595638

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This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a range of Sherlock’s most fascinating successors, exploring the ways in which a huge range of popular magazines and newspapers clamoured to ensnare Sherlock’s bereft fans. The book’s case-study format examines a range of detective series-- created by L.T. Meade; C.L. Pirkis; Arthur Morrison; Fergus Hume; Richard Marsh; Kate and Vernon Hesketh-Prichard— that filled the pages of a variety of periodicals, from plush monthly magazines to cheap newspapers, in the years while Sherlock was dead. Readers will be introduced to an array of detectives—professional and amateur, male and female, old and young; among them a pawn-shop worker, a scientist, a British aristocrat, a ghost-hunter. The study of these series shows that there was life after Sherlock and proves that there is much to learn about the development of the detective genre from the successors to Sherlock Holmes. “In this brilliant, incisive study of late Victorian detective fiction, Clarke emphatically shows us there is life beyond Sherlock Holmes. Rich in contextual detail and with her customary eye for the intricacies of publishing history, Clarke’s wonderfully accessible book brings to the fore a collection of hitherto neglected writers simultaneously made possible but pushed to the margins by Conan Doyle’s most famous creation.” — Andrew Pepper,, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University, Belfast Professor Clarke's superb new book, British Detective : The Successors to Sherlock Holmes, is required reading for anyone interested in Victorian crime and detective fiction. Building on her award-winning first monograph, Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, Dr. Clarke further explores the history of serial detective fiction published after the "death" of Conan Doyle's famous detective in 1893. This is a path-breaking book that advances scholarship in the field of late-Victorian detective fiction while at the same time introducing non-specialist readers to a treasure trove of stories that indeed rival the Sherlock Holmes series in their ability to puzzle and entertain the most discerning reader. — Alexis Easley, Professor of English, University of St.Paul, Minnesota

Strange Tales from the Strand

Jack Adrian
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Author : Jack Adrian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192829971

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Containing twenty-nine stories of the weird and uncanny, all originally published in the Strand, this collection is an enthralling mix of horror and the supernatural, unnatural disasters, madness, and revenge. We read of a germ that turned the world blind in Edgar Wallace's "The Black Grippe." In "A Sense of the Future," the world supply of oil gives out, cars become obsolete, and after three months we have returned to the days of horse-drawn carriages. In other tales, a camera takes pictures of the future, and a 1971 newspaper is pushed through a mail slot forty years earlier. With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.

Sherlock's Sisters

Joseph A. Kestner
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Author : Joseph A. Kestner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351900348

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Sherlock's Sisters by Joseph A. Kestner Pdf

Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, especially as this surveillance illuminates legal, moral, gendered, institutional, criminal, punitive, judicial, political, and familial practices. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Cultural movements, such as the emergence of the New Woman, property law or suffragism, are stressed in the exploits of these resourceful investigators. These daring women deal with a range of crimes, including murder, blackmail, terrorism, forgery, theft, sexual harassment, embezzlement, fraud, impersonation and domestic violence. Privileging the exercise of reason rather than intuition, these women detectives are proto-feminist in their demonstration of women's independence. Instead of being under the law, these women transform it. Their investigations are given particular edge because many of the perpetrators of these crimes are women. Sherlock's Sisters probes many texts which, because of their rarity, have been under-researched. Writers such as Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Emmuska Orczy, L.T. Meade, Catherine Pirkis, Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sims, McDonnell Bodkin and Richard Marsh are here incorporated into the canon of Victorian and Edwardian literature, many for the first time. A writer such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon is reassessed through a neglected novel. The book includes works by Irish and Australian writers to present an inclusive array of British texts. Sherlock's Sisters enlarges the perception of emerging female empowerment during the nineteenth century, filling an important gap in the fields of Gender Studies, Law/Literature and Popular Culture.

A Companion to Crime Fiction

Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
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Author : Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119675778

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A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

The Blue Dragon

Ronald Tierney
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Author : Ronald Tierney
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459809062

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The Blue Dragon by Ronald Tierney Pdf

A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn’t exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn’t intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn’t a gang-related killing, as the police believe. The murder was committed by one of the tenants. Finding out which one exposes the secrets of the Blue Dragon and brings Strand face-to-face with a few ghosts of his own.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : anboco
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736417915

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In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.

The Strand Magazine and Sherlock Holmes

Robert Veld
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Author : Robert Veld
Publisher : Gasogene Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Journalism
ISBN : 0938501577

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The Strand Magazine and Sherlock Holmes by Robert Veld Pdf

"In 1891, this first magazine of its kind began to publish the greatest detective stories of all time, inextricably linking them in the minds of Sherlockians forever ... Now, learn the full account of how this celebrated periodical and the Great Detective began their historic journey together."--Cover, page [4].

The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s

Winnie Chan
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Author : Winnie Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135868581

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The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s by Winnie Chan Pdf

This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great divide" of modernism.

The Short Story and the First World War

Ann-Marie Einhaus
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Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038431

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Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.

The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction

Samuel Saunders
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Author : Samuel Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429671029

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The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction by Samuel Saunders Pdf

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre’s evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press. The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals, and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organised law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognise today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of ‘detective fiction’, and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre’s evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century.