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The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories, edited by Michael Sims

Label
The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories
Title
The dead witness
Title remainder
a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories
Statement of responsibility
edited by Michael Sims
Title variation
  • Connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories
  • Victorian detective stories
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"A scintillating new collection of the best Victorian detective stories--as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today!"--P. [4] of cover
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
823/.08720808
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR1309.D4
LC item number
D35 2012
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1958-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Sims, Michael
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Detective and mystery stories, English
  • English fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories, American
  • American fiction
Label
The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories, edited by Michael Sims
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Prophets looking backward / by Michael Sims -- The secret cell / by William E. Burton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / by Edgar Allan Poe -- On duty with Inspector Field / by Charles Dickens -- The diary of Anne Rodway / by Wilkie Collins -- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / by Alexandre Dumas -- Arrested on suspicion / by Andrew Forrester Jr. -- The dead witness; or, The bush waterhole / by W. W. (Mary Fortune) -- The mysterious human leg / by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) -- The little old man of Batignolles / by Émile Gaboriau -- The science of deduction / by Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Whitechapel mystery / by Anonymous -- The assassin's natal autograph / by Mark Twain -- The murder at Troyte's Hill / by C. L. Pirkis -- The Haverstock Hill murder / by George R. Sims -- The stolen cigar-case / by Bret Harte -- The absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr -- The hammer of God / by G. K. Chesterton -- The angel of the lord / by Melville Davisson Post -- The crime at Big Tree Portage / by Hesketh Prichard -- The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / by Ernest Bramah -- The case of Padages Palmer / by Harvey O'Higgins -- An intangible clue / by Anna Katharine Green
Control code
ocn727704130
Dimensions
21 cm.
Edition
First U.S. edition
Extent
xxix, 576 pages
Isbn
9780802779182
Lccn
2011030427
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
The dead witness : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories, edited by Michael Sims
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Prophets looking backward / by Michael Sims -- The secret cell / by William E. Burton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / by Edgar Allan Poe -- On duty with Inspector Field / by Charles Dickens -- The diary of Anne Rodway / by Wilkie Collins -- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / by Alexandre Dumas -- Arrested on suspicion / by Andrew Forrester Jr. -- The dead witness; or, The bush waterhole / by W. W. (Mary Fortune) -- The mysterious human leg / by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) -- The little old man of Batignolles / by Émile Gaboriau -- The science of deduction / by Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Whitechapel mystery / by Anonymous -- The assassin's natal autograph / by Mark Twain -- The murder at Troyte's Hill / by C. L. Pirkis -- The Haverstock Hill murder / by George R. Sims -- The stolen cigar-case / by Bret Harte -- The absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr -- The hammer of God / by G. K. Chesterton -- The angel of the lord / by Melville Davisson Post -- The crime at Big Tree Portage / by Hesketh Prichard -- The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / by Ernest Bramah -- The case of Padages Palmer / by Harvey O'Higgins -- An intangible clue / by Anna Katharine Green
Control code
ocn727704130
Dimensions
21 cm.
Edition
First U.S. edition
Extent
xxix, 576 pages
Isbn
9780802779182
Lccn
2011030427
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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