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A Century of Detection

by John Cullen Gruesser, Arthur Conan Doyle · 2010

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> Designed for mystery lovers as well as professors and students in college courses devoted to detective fiction, this anthology features classic texts, pivotal works by lesser-known authors, and unknown gems by major writers not typically associated with the genre. Providing a chronological and thematic survey of the first one hundred years of detection, the volume includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, G. K. Chesterton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Baroness Orzcy, Susan Glaspell, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Pauline Hopkins, Chester Himes, and Ralph Ellison.

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Edgar Allan Poe:

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Purloined Letter

The Gold-Bug

**Variations on Poe, Expansions of the Form**

Wilkie Collins: Who Is the Thief?

Mark Twain: The Stolen White Elephant

G.K. Chesterton: The Blue Cross

**The World's Most Celebrated Detective**

Arthur Conan Doyle:

A Scandal in Bohemia

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

The Adventure of the Final Problem

Bret Harte: The Stolen Cigar Case

**Gender, Sexuality, and Detection**

Mary Wilkins Freeman: The Long Arm

Baroness Orczy: The Ninescore Mystery

Anna Katharine Green: Missing

Susan Glaspell: A Jury of Her Peers

**Tough Guys**

Carroll John Daly: The False Burton Combs

Dashiell Hammett: The Road Home

Cornell Woolrich: Murder at the Automat

**Race and Detection**

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Talma Gordon

Chester Himes: He Knew

Ralph Ellison: The Birthmark

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British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of thisprivate investigatorprivate investigatorMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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private investigatorprivate investigatorMore like thisLess of this
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19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of this20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this221b Baker Street221b Baker StreetMore like thisLess of thisBohemiaBohemiaMore like thisLess of thisCalcuttaCalcuttaMore like thisLess of this
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childrens
Length
medium · 378 pages
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