The Penguin Book Of Victorian Women In Crime
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The Penguin Book Of Victorian Women In Crime
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Author : Michael Sims
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-01-25
The Penguin Book Of Victorian Women In Crime written by Michael Sims and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-25 with Fiction categories.
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
The Penguin Book Of Victorian Women In Crime
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Author : Michael Sims
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2011-01-25
The Penguin Book Of Victorian Women In Crime written by Michael Sims and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-25 with Fiction categories.
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
The Penguin Book Of Murder Mysteries
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Author : Michael Sims
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-11-21
The Penguin Book Of Murder Mysteries written by Michael Sims and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Fiction categories.
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early “lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them. For twenty-first century connoisseurs of crime, The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries celebrates how the nineteenth century added a fierce modern twist to the ancient theme of bloody murder.
The Penguin Book Of Gaslight Crime
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Author : Michael Sims
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-03-31
The Penguin Book Of Gaslight Crime written by Michael Sims and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-31 with Fiction categories.
An exclusive collection—the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl-burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and William Hope Hodgson.
Sex Crime And Literature In Victorian England
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Author : Ian Ward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-01
Sex Crime And Literature In Victorian England written by Ian Ward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with Law categories.
The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.
Crime On Her Mind
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Author : Michele Beth Slung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Crime On Her Mind written by Michele Beth Slung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
These stories have been selected "to acquaint readers with heroines whose adventures offer period charm along with a glimpse into the development of the woman detective". Each is prefaced by biographical notes on the author and the book ends with a descriptive chronological survey of female sleuths.
Crime On Her Mind
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Author : Michele Beth Slung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Crime On Her Mind written by Michele Beth Slung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Detective and mystery stories, English categories.
The Dead Witness
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Author : Michael Sims
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-11-07
The Dead Witness written by Michael Sims and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with Fiction categories.
The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead Witness', the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn manhunt in the Outback. This forgotten treasure sets the tone for the whole anthology as surprises appear from every direction, including more female detectives and authors than you can find in any other anthology of its kind. Pioneer women writers such as Anna Katharine Green and C. L. Pirkis take you from rural America to bustling London, introducing you to female detectives from Loveday Brooke to Dorcas Dene and Violet Strange. In other stories, you will meet November Joe, the Canadian half-Native backwoods detective who stars in 'The Crime at Big Tree Portage' and demonstrates that Sherlockian attention to detail works as well in the woods as in the city. Holmes himself is here, too, of course - not in another reprint though - but in the first two chapters of A Study in Scarlet, the first Holmes case, in which the great man meets and dazzles Watson. Authors range from luminaries such as Charles Dickens to the forgotten author who helped inspire Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', the first real detective story. Bret Harte is here as is Mark Twain, with his small-town lawyer detective. Naturally Wilkie Collins couldn't be left behind. Michael Sims's new collection reveals the fascinating and entertaining youth of what would mature into the most popular genre of the twentieth century.
The Woman In The Veil
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Author : Laura Joh Rowland
language : en
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Release Date : 2020-01-07
The Woman In The Veil written by Laura Joh Rowland and has been published by Crooked Lane Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Fiction categories.
Award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the fourth in her critically acclaimed Victorian mysteries where the case of a mutilated "Sleeping Beauty" washes ashore in London. London, June 1890. Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly are crime scene photographers for the Daily World newspaper. After solving a sensational murder, they're under pressure to deliver another big story. On a foggy summer night, they're called to the bank of the river Thames. The murder victim is an unidentified woman whose face has been slashed. But as Sarah takes photographs, she discovers that the woman is still alive. The case of "Sleeping Beauty" becomes a public sensation, and three parties quickly come forward to identify her: a rich, sinister artist who claims she's his wife; a mother and her two daughters who co-own a nursing home and claim she's their stepdaughter/sister; and a precocious little girl who claims Sleeping Beauty is her mother. Which party is Sleeping Beauty's rightful kin? Is someone among them her would-be killer? Then Sleeping Beauty awakens--with a severe case of amnesia. She's forgotten her name and everything else about herself. But she recognizes one of the people who've claimed her. Sarah is delighted to reunite a family and send Sleeping Beauty home--until one of the claimants is murdered. Suddenly, Sarah, her motley crew of friends, and her fiancé Detective Sergeant Barrett are on the wrong side of the law. Now they must identify the killer before they find themselves headed for the gallows.
The Victorian Underworld
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Author : Kellow Chesney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-01
The Victorian Underworld written by Kellow Chesney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01 with Criminals categories.
Beneath the respectable surface of Victorian England lay a criminal world as diverse, turbulent and vicious as any. This begins by looking at that age and its penal methods and it then recreates the showmen, religious fakes, garrotters, pickpockets, prostitutes and magsmen who thronged the murky rookeries and lays of the cities.