The dead witness
Subtitle: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories
By: edited by Michael Sims
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781408818633
Subjects: Englisch; Kriminalgeschichte; Detective and mystery stories; Short stories
Description: 'The Dead Witness' gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems.
Notes: Includes bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-6).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 571 - 576).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Prophets looking backward / by Michael Sims; title: The secret cell / by William E. Burton; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue / by Edgar Allan Poe; title: On duty with Inspector Field / by Charles Dickens; title: The diary of Anne Rodway / by Wilkie Collins; title: You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / by Alexandre Dumas; title: Arrested on suspicion / by Andrew Forrester Jr.; title: The dead witness; or, The bush waterhole / by W.W. (Mary Fortune); title: The mysterious human leg / by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman); title: The little old man of Batignolles / by Émile Gaboriau; title: The science of deduction / by Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The Whitechapel mystery / by Anonymous; title: The assassin's natal autograph / by Mark Twain; title: The murder at Troyte's Hill / by C.L. Pirkis; title: The Haverstock Hill murder / by George R. Sims; title: The stolen cigar-case / by Bret Harte; title: The absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr; title: The hammer of God / by G.K. Chesterton; title: The angel of the lord / by Melville Davisson Post; title: The crime at Big Tree Portage / by Hesketh Prichard; title: The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / by Ernest Bramah; title: The case of Padages Palmer / by Harvey O'Higgins; title: An intangible clue / by Anna Katharine Green.