Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780521527620
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Forensic Science; Detective and mystery stories, English--Histo; Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism; Law-Forensic Science; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In the opening pages of one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories Doctor Watson discovers Holmes engaged in what the doctor describes as "a pathological and morbid process."