Victorian Detectives Multipack

by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Baroness Orczy, Wilkie Collins, C. L. Pirkis

Overview

The Ultimate Victorian Detectives Multipack! Over 4,000 pages! 26 Books! Almost 200 illustrations!

Long before Sherlock Holmes, six sleuths on either side of the Atlantic thrilled readers of early crime fiction - Inspector Bucket, C. Augustine Dupin, Amelia Butterworth, Sergeant Cuff, Loveday Brooke and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.

Here they all are, together in one impressive collection of 24 novellas, two novels and 190 original illustrations. Six crime fighters who paved the way for Holmes, Watson et al.

An extraordinary anthology from six Masters of Mystery including Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

Included in this awesome 4,000 page plus collection:

*Inspector Bucket in 'Bleak House – Special Edition' by Charles Dickens.

*C. Augustine Dupin is the star of the 'C. Augustine Dupin Collection – The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Murder of Roger Marie and The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe.

*Sergeant Cuff appears in 'The Moonstone – Special Edition' by Wilkie Collins.

*Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. All 12 Titles featuring Baroness Orczy's intrepid sleuth of Inverness, Scotland are included here: The Ninescore Mystery, The Frewin Miniatures, The Irish Tweed Coat, The Fordwych Castle Mystery, A Day's Folly, A Castle In Brittany, A Christmas Tragedy, The Bag of Sand, The Man in the Inverness Cape, The Woman in the Big Hat, Sir Jeremiah's Will and The End.

*Loveday Brooke - The popular female detective created by C. L. Pirkis appeared in six stories in Ludgate Magazine in the 1890s. All six mysteries are included here: THE BLACK BAG LEFT ON A DOOR-STEP, THE REDHILL SISTERHOOD, A PRINCESS'S VENGEANCE, DRAWN DAGGERS, THE GHOST OF FOUNTAIN LANE and MISSING!

*Amelia Butterworth solves crimes in a trilogy by Anna Katharine Greene - 'That Affair Next Door,' 'Lost Man's Lane' and 'The Circular Study.'

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151073820
Publisher:	Enhanced E-Books
Publication date:	10/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	557,385
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.