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And Always A Detective

1552462021

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Stewart, Richard F.

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It is obvious that current fiction is suffering from a revival ... tales of mystery and murder are beginning to captivate once more. This was written, not during the deluge following the appearance of Sherlock Holmes, but in 1885 before Doyle had written a detective story. Yet here are the Victorians pointing to their crops of similar tales. They called their yield “sensation novels”, a more honest if less respectable title, and despite the intellectual claims of detective fiction, particularly in its golden age between the Wars, the question arises whether both are not the part of the same harvest. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary comment, this book in fact reveals a remarkable similarity between Victorian sensation and detective fiction, a comparison from which the latter does not emerge unscathed. This parallel is exemplified by the career of the Great Detective. Despite refinements in his presentation, the idea of the detective as final and infallible arbiter was firmly established before Holmes, not just by Poe and Collins, but by many others both in Britain and, more significantly, in France. And, finally, as the progress of the Great Detective is followed, it becomes apparent that the seeds of his downfall had been planted long before Holmes and Watson took up residence in Baker Street. Cover Art by Jean Pierre Cagnat The author was born in Dundee a long time ago and educated there and at St. Andrews University. Ten years in the Royal Army Educational Corps were followed by twenty-five in an administrative post at the University of Manchester. Early retirement in 1992 ended this long service in hard stations and enabled him to concentrate fully on doing nothing, though he has taken time off to produce two books since then — End Game (1999), a study of solutions to Edwin Drood, Dickens’ unfinished mystery, and The Great Detective Case of 1877 (2000) dealing with corruption at Scotland Yard. This present book was first published in 1980.

Artist Bio: The author was born in Dundee a long time ago and educated there and at St. Andrews University. Ten years in the Royal Army Educational Corps were followed by twenty-five in an administrative post at the University of Manchester. Early retirement in 1992 ended this long service in hard stations and enabled him to concentrate fully on doing nothing, though he has taken time off to produce two books since then — End Game (1999), a study of solutions to Edwin Drood, Dickens’ unfinished mystery, and The Great Detective Case of 1877 (2000) dealing with corruption at Scotland Yard. This present book was first published in 1980.

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