期刊全称 | British Detective Fiction 1891–1901 | 期刊简称 | The Successors to Sh | 影响因子2023 | Clare Clarke | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Explores the significance of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes to the detective genre and late-Victorian society as a whole.Examines works by six popular late-Victorian authors/authorial partners | 学科分类 | Crime Files | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the .Strand Magazine.’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a range of Sherlock’s most fascinating successors, exploring the ways in which a huge range of popular magazines and newspapers clamoured to ensnare Sherlock’s bereft fans. The book’s case-study format examines a range of detective series-- created by L.T. Meade; C.L. Pirkis; Arthur Morrison; Fergus Hume; Richard Marsh; Kate and Vernon Hesketh-Prichard— that filled the pages of a variety of periodicals, from plush monthly magazines to cheap newspapers, in the years while Sherlock was dead. Readers will be introduced to an array of detectives—professional and amateur, male and female, oldand young; among them a pawn-shop worker, a scientist, a British aristocrat, a ghost-hunter. The study of these series shows that there was life after Sherlock and proves that there is much to learn about the | Pindex | Book 2020 |
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