Titlebook: Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock; Clare Clarke Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Lim

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,Something for ‘the Silly Season’: Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill’s , (1891), successful Sherlock Holmes stories for ... ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ appeared in July 1891; just over a month later, on 22 August, and running in daily instalments until 4 September, . was published in London’s only politically Radical daily newspaper, .. At the time of the novel’s publication, Zangwi

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,Tales of ‘Mean Streets’: The Criminal-Detective in Arthur Morrison’s , (1897),h the burgeoning Victorian crime genre’s transgressive potential to its furthest extreme. After Holmes disappeared over the Reichenbach Falls in December 1893, apparently never to return, many magazines were desperate to poach the readers who had developed a voracious appetite for Arthur Conan Doyle

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,‘A Criminal in Disguise’: Class and Empire in Guy Boothby’s , (1897), in Calcutta and London, which appeared in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.. Boothby’s collection was serialised from January to September 1897 in ., one of the many .-inspired family magazines that grew up in the 1890s. The following year it was issued in book form by Ward, Lock,

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Conclusion,in the period before, during and after the emergence of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. By focusing on Doyle’s detective stories, alongside other well-known fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson, and works by critically neglected authors like Arthur Morrison, Israel Zangwill, Fergus Hume and Guy Boothby, we ha

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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

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,‘Ordinary Secret Sinners’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s , (1886),.. The magazine ran a pastiche story ‘to make your flesh creep’ featuring ‘Mr Hidanseek’, a character with ‘an acquired taste for trampling out children’s brains and hacking to death … Baronets’ (‘The Strange Case of Dr T.’). In the spring of 1887 a stage adaptation opened in Boston and New York, so

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,‘The Most Popular Book of Modern Times’: Fergus Hume’s , (1886),,000 copies in just three months. Before the turn of the century, . had become a global hit: it had been republished in the UK, France and America; it had been turned into a successful stage play in London, Melbourne and New York (running for over 500 performances in London). Bizarrely, it had even

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,Something for ‘the Silly Season’: Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill’s , (1891),e particularly notorious for its prurient and sensational coverage of the Whitechapel Ripper murders in the summer of 1888, during which time its circulation soared to over 300,000 copies daily.. In summer 1891, the paper’s editor contacted Zangwill requesting something ‘original’ for ‘the silly sea

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,Tales of ‘Mean Streets’: The Criminal-Detective in Arthur Morrison’s , (1897),um novels. Early reviews of the Hewitt collection were reasonably favourable, yet tended to emphasise Morrison’s indebtedness to Doyle’s detective stories and the similarities between Holmes and Hewitt. The ., for instance, generously suggested that Morrison’s Hewitt tales were ‘the only stories wor