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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230390546

ISBN: 978-1-349-35130-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 3, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 1 –12

[This book examines crime fiction in the years 1886–1900, a formative and fascinating period in the history of the genre. The 1880s and 1890s have been termed the ‘First Golden Age of Detective Fiction’ (Smith, Golden iii). These were the years in which detective fiction firmly established itself...
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Chapter 2‘Ordinary Secret Sinners’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 13 –42

[This chapter focuses on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886),1 a ‘Christmas crawler’ produced by Robert Louis Stevenson in answer to his publisher’s request for something sensational for the 1885 Christmas literary marketplace (Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde xvii). The novel, recounting a...
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Chapter 3‘The Most Popular Book of Modern Times’: Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 43 –71

[This chapter focuses on the book that has been called ‘the bestselling detective novel of the nineteenth century’ — a novel, like the others in this study, which also illustrates the often overlooked formal and ideological complexity of the nascent Victorian detective genre (Davies, Shadows...
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Chapter 4‘L’homme c’est rien — l’oeuvre c’est tout’: The Sherlock Holmes Stories and Work

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 72 –103

[This chapter focuses on the late Victorian detective genre’s most famous and canonical incarnation — Sherlock Holmes.1 Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories are now so well known, so frequently studied and so often reimagined in popular culture that it perhaps seems there cannot be much new to...
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Chapter 5Something for ‘the Silly Season’: Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill’s The Big Bow Mystery (1891)

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 104 –127

[In this chapter I focus on Israel Zangwill’s subversive and intriguing The Big Bow Mystery (1891), a crime novel published in the immediate wake of Arthur Conan Doyle’s successful Sherlock Holmes stories for The Strand.1 ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ appeared in July 1891; just over a month later, on...
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Chapter 6Tales of ‘Mean Streets’: The Criminal-Detective in Arthur Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897)

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 128 –154

[In this chapter I focus on Arthur Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), a collection of six short stories published in the wake of Sherlock Holmes’s ‘death’, which push the burgeoning Victorian crime genre’s transgressive potential to its furthest extreme. After Holmes disappeared over the...
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Chapter 7‘A Criminal in Disguise’: Class and Empire in Guy Boothby’s A Prince of Swindlers (1897)

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 155 –180

[In this chapter, I concentrate on Guy Boothby’s A Prince of Swindlers1 — a contemporarily popular, yet now critically overlooked, collection of six short crime stories set in Calcutta and London, which appeared in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.2 Boothby’s collection was...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Clarke, Clare

Pages: 181 –183

[This study has sought to augment recent challenges to reductive and essentialist accounts of both the genealogy and the complexity of the crime genre in the period before, during and after the emergence of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. By focusing on Doyle’s detective stories, alongside other...

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