Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology
| Book | The Purloined Letter |
| Editor | Michael Cox (2) |
| Introduction by | Michael Cox (2) |
| Cover Art by | Paul Slater |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Typeset by | Best-set Typesetter Ltd. |
| Printed by | The Bath Press |
| Copyright Holder (Compilation) | Michael Cox (2) |
| Contributing Writer | Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Richard Dowling, Wilkie Collins, R. E. Francillon, Sir Gilbert Campbell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Headon Hill, Israel Zangwill, C. L. Pirkis, Fergus Hume, L. T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Harry Blyth, Arthur Morrison, Rodrigues Ottolengui, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, M. P. Shiel, Herbert Keen, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, E. and H. Heron, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Victor L. Whitechurch, E. Conway, Baroness Emma Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Oxford |
| Copyright | 1992 |
| This Edition Published | 1992 |
| Pages / Font | 578 pages |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 91-46719 |
| ISBN | 0192123084 |
| Barcode | 9780192123084 |
| Chapters | ix • Introduction, by Michael Cox 1 • The purloined letter, by Edgar Allan Poe 18 • The murdered cousin, by J. S. Le Fanu 48 • Hunted down, by Charles Dickens 69 • Levison's victim, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 84 • The mystery at number seven, by Mrs Henry Wood 124 • The going out of Alessandro Pozzone, by Richard Dowling 141 • Who killed Zebedee?, by Wilkie Collins 161 • A circumstantial puzzle, by R. E. Francillon 186 • The mystery of Essex stairs, by Sir Gilbert Campbell 195 • The adventure of the blue carbuncle, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 214 • The great ruby robbery, by Grant Allen 233 • The sapient monkey, by Headon Hill 241 • Cheating the gallows, by Israel Zangwill 254 • Drawn daggers, by C. L. Pirkis 274 • The greenstone god and the stockbroker, by Fergus Hume 289 • The arrest of Captain Vandaleur, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace 303 • The accusing shadow, by Harry Blyth 342 • The ivy cottage mystery, by Arthur Morrison 365 • The Azteck opal, by Rodrigues Ottolengui 377 • The long arm, by Mary E. Wilkins 406 • The case of Euphemia Raphash, by M. P. Shiel 420 • The tin box, by Herbert Keen 437 • Murder by proxy, by M. McDonnell Bodkin 457 • The duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds, by Guy Boothby 480 • The story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith, by E. and H. Heron 493 • The lost special, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 508 • The banknote forger, by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 518 • A warning in red, by Victor L. Whitechurch and E. Conway 528 • The Fenchurch Street mystery, by Baroness Orczy 543 • The green spider, by Sax Rohmer 555 • The clue of the silver spoons, by Robert Barr 573 • Sources 576 • Select Bibliography |
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