Book of Donmon Teith

Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and the

In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American l

This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detec

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in Ameri

In Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Brit