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Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Catherine L. Pirkis, Rudyard Kipling, Headon Hill, Emmuska Orczy, George R. Sims, R. Austin Freeman, L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Silas K. Hocking, G.K. Chesterton, Robert W. Chambers, Jacques Futrelle, Kate Prichard, Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard · 1997

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Rich, varied collection of 14 extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories, many never before published in book form: Kipling's "The Return of Imray"; "The Tragedy of the Life Raft" by Jacques Futrelle; "The Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle; plus hard-to-find tales by G.K. Chesterton, Catherine L. Pirkis, Silas K. Hocking, others.

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mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisVictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of this
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VictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of thisHampshireHampshireMore like thisLess of thisWinchesterWinchesterMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 272 pages
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