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100 British Crime Writers

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Esme Miskimmin

    1. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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  • Examines the contributions of 100 British crime writers
  • Explores the evolution of British crime genre from 1855–2015
  • Offers an introduction to different eras in crime fiction

Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918’; ‘The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945’; ‘Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989’; and ‘To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015’, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxix
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  2. The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855–1918

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-6
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    2. Caroline Clive (1801–1873), 1855: Paul Ferroll

      • Adrienne E. Gavin
      Pages 7-8

    3. Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), 1860: The Woman in White

      • Adrienne E. Gavin
      Pages 9-12

    4. Mrs. Henry Wood (1814–1887), 1861: East Lynne

      • Anne-Marie Beller
      Pages 13-17

    5. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915), 1862: Lady Audley’s Secret

      • Adrienne E. Gavin
      Pages 19-25

    6. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), 1887: A Study in Scarlet

      • Adrienne E. Gavin
      Pages 27-33

    7. George R. Sims (1847–1922), 1890: The Case of George Candlemas

      • Esme Miskimmin
      Pages 35-36

    8. C. L. Pirkis (1839–1910), 1893: First Publication of the ‘Loveday Brooke’ Stories in the Ludgate Monthly

      • Adrienne E. Gavin
      Pages 37-39

    9. Arthur Morrison (1863–1945), 1894: First Publication of the ‘Martin Hewitt’ Stories in The Strand Magazine

      • Nick Freeman
      Pages 41-43

    10. E. Phillips Oppenheim (Also Wrote as Antony Partridge, 1866–1946), 1898: The Mysterious Mr. Sabin

      • Alexandra Phillips
      Pages 45-46

    11. E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), 1899: The Amateur Cracksman

      • Suzanne Bray
      Pages 47-48

    12. Baroness Orczy (1865–1947), 1901: First Publication of Six ‘The Old Man in the Corner’ Stories in The Royal Magazine

      • Greg Rees
      Pages 49-51

    13. Erskine Childers (1870–1922), 1903: The Riddle of the Sands

      • Christopher Routledge
      Pages 53-56

    14. Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), 1905: The Four Just Men

      • Stephen Knight
      Pages 57-62

    15. R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), 1907: The Red Thumb Mark (First Novel in the ‘Dr. Thorndyke’ Series)

      • Nick Freeman
      Pages 63-69

    16. G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), 1908: The Man Who Was Thursday

      • Christopher Routledge
      Pages 71-77

    17. Edwy Searles Brooks (1889–1965), 1912: First Contribution to the ‘Sexton Blake’ Series in the Union Jack Story Paper

      • Lucy Andrew
      Pages 79-80

    18. Sax Rohmer (1883–1959), 1912: First ‘Fu Manchu’ Story, ‘The Zayat Kiss’, in The Story-Teller Magazine

      • Steven Powell
      Pages 81-82

    19. E. C. Bentley (1875–1956), 1913: Trent’s Last Case

      • Suzanne Bray
      Pages 83-86
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Esme Miskimmin

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Esme Miskimmin is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has research interests in Renaissance drama as well as crime writing, and sometimes combines the two.

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