1st Edition

The Edwardian Detective 1901-15

By Professor Joseph Kestner Copyright 1997
424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 1999 & examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of Edward VII and the early reign of George V. The book assesses the literature as cultural history, with a focus on issues such as legal reform, marital reform, surveillance, Germanophobia, masculinity/femininity, the "best-seller", the arms race,... Read more

Part 1 The Edwardian detective 1901-1905: Conan Doyle - "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1901-1902); Freeman/Pitcairn - "The Adventures of Romney Pringle" (1902); Freeman/Pitcairn - "The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle" (1903); Meade/Eustace - "The Sorceress of the Strand" (1902-1903); Whitechurch - "The Investigations of Godfrey Page, Railwayac" (1903-1904); Childers - "The Riddle of the Sands" (1903); Freeman Pitcairn - "From a Surgeon's Diary" (1904-1905); Conan Doyle - "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1905); Robinson - "The Chronicles of Addington Peace" (1905); Bennet - "The Loot of Cities" (1905); Wallace - "The Four Just Men" (1905). Part 2 The Edwardian detective 1906-1910: Barr - "The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont" (1906); Benson - "Tracks in the Snow" (1906); Freeman - "The Red Thumb Mark" (1907); Conrad - "The Secret Agent" (1907); Chesterton - "The Man Who Was Thursday" (1908); Blackwood - "John Silence - Physician Extraordinary" (1908); Mason - "At the Villa Rose" (1910); Orczy - "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" (1910); Conan Doyle - "His Last Bow" (1908-1911). Part 3 The Edwardian detective 1911-1915: Chesterton - "The Innocence of Father Brown" (1911); Whitechurch - "Thrilling Stories of the Railway" (1912); Lowndes - "The Lodger" (1913); Bentley - "Trent's Last Case" (1913); Pritchard - "November Joe - The Detective of the Woods" (1913); Buchan - "The Power-House" (1913); Bramah - "Max Carrados" (1914); Hornung - "The Crime Doctor" (1914); Conan Doyle - "The Valley of Fear" (1914-1915); Buchan - "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915).

Biography

Joseph A. Kestner