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William Hope Hodgson's character Carnacki is a leading example of the "occult detective" subgenre. He's equal parts ghostbuster and mythbuster, as some of his cases have a supernatural explanation and others are exposed as frauds.
William Hope Hodgson's character Carnacki is a leading example of the "occult detective" subgenre. He's equal parts ghostbuster and mythbuster, as some of his cases have a supernatural explanation and others are exposed as frauds.
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Arthur Morrison introduced fiction's first antihero with this collection of six stories featuring corrupt detective Horace Dorrington, a scoundrel perfectly willing to extort and even murder his own clients to enrich himself.
Arthur Morrison introduced fiction's first antihero with this collection of six stories featuring corrupt detective Horace Dorrington, a scoundrel perfectly willing to extort and even murder his own clients to enrich himself.
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The creation of C.L. Pirkis, the sharply observant and remarkably self-assured Loveday Brooke is the star employee of a detective agency, frequently sent ...Show more
The creation of C.L. Pirkis, the sharply observant and remarkably self-assured Loveday Brooke is the star employee of a detective agency, frequently sent into households undercover. The interplay with her employer Mr Dyer is surprisingly modern, though the stories predate the "fair play" conventions of later mystery fiction.
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Anna Katharine Green is credited as America's first female mystery novelist, establishing many of the conventions of the genre. She also wrote this series of short detective stories featuring debutante and secret sleuth Violet Strange.
Anna Katharine Green is credited as America's first female mystery novelist, establishing many of the conventions of the genre. She also wrote this series of short detective stories featuring debutante and secret sleuth Violet Strange.
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Little known outside her home country, Augusta Groner was Austria's first female mystery writer. She produced several stories featuring Josef Müller (ang...Show more
Little known outside her home country, Augusta Groner was Austria's first female mystery writer. She produced several stories featuring Josef Müller (anglicized as Joe Muller), a rank-and-file police detective with a duty-driven and instinctual nose for the truth.
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Australian émigré Mary Helena Fortune is little remembered but is credited with being the first author of detective fiction to write from the perspective ...Show more
Australian émigré Mary Helena Fortune is little remembered but is credited with being the first author of detective fiction to write from the perspective of the investigator. Her at-times hardscabble life lends great authenticity to her tales featuring Australian policeman Mark Sinclair.
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Arthur Morrison is credited as the first author to follow the Conan Doyle formula, but juxtaposed the irascible Holmes by making his private investigator ...Show more
Arthur Morrison is credited as the first author to follow the Conan Doyle formula, but juxtaposed the irascible Holmes by making his private investigator Martin Hewitt a likeable fellow who keeps good relations with the police. His plots are just as good as the Master's, though the last story in this collection exposes the open racism of the era.
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Ernest Bramah created the first blind detective character, who uses his sharp senses and even sharper wits to solve mysteries and get out of tough scrapes...Show more
Ernest Bramah created the first blind detective character, who uses his sharp senses and even sharper wits to solve mysteries and get out of tough scrapes. Some of the endings are a little bonkers, but the zingy dialogue is frequently laugh-out-loud funny.
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Created by the Baroness Orczy, the never-named Old Man in the Corner meets with a female journalist to recount the solutions he has developed for puzzling...Show more
Created by the Baroness Orczy, the never-named Old Man in the Corner meets with a female journalist to recount the solutions he has developed for puzzling crimes. Unusually for the genre, he often admires the wrongdoers and never pursues justice against them.
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