Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

1. Introduction
Clare Clarke

2. ‘Ordinary Secret Sinners’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
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3. ‘The Most Popular Book of Modern Times’: Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)
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4. ‘L’homme c’est rien — l’oeuvre c’est tout’: The Sherlock Holmes Stories and Work
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5. Something for ‘the Silly Season’: Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill’s The Big Bow Mystery (1891)
Clare Clarke

6. Tales of ‘Mean Streets’: The Criminal-Detective in Arthur Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897)
Clare Clarke

7. ‘A Criminal in Disguise’: Class and Empire in Guy Boothby’s A Prince of Swindlers (1897)
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8. Conclusion
Clare Clarke

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History