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This is an ambitious and diverse study that places detective fiction in its broader periodical contexts and makes an important contribution to a growing critical field. ... Clarke's book is a welcome addition to recent critical work ... . This engagingly written study offers a much fuller account of 1890s detective fiction and will be essential reading for scholars working on the fin de siecle, Victorian popular fiction, journalism, and the publishing history of the short story. ( Emma Liggins, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 54 (1), 2021)

“This is an ambitious and diverse study that places detective fiction in its broader periodical contexts and makes an important contribution to a growing critical field. … Clarke’s book is a welcome addition to recent critical work … . This engagingly written study offers a much fuller account of 1890s detective fiction and will be essential reading for scholars working on the fin de siècle, Victorian popular fiction, journalism, and the publishing history of the short story.” (‪Emma Liggins, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 54 (1), 2021)

“This book is full of refreshing new contexts for familiar arguments about detective fiction, and Clarke’s thorough research brings some of these more obscure characters into the full light they merit.” (Caroline Reitz, Victorian Studies, Vol. 64 (4), 2022) “This is an ambitious and diverse study that places detective fiction in its broader periodical contexts and makes an important contribution to a growing critical field. … Clarke’s book is a welcome addition to recent critical work … . This engagingly written study offers a much fuller account of 1890s detective fiction and will be essential reading for scholars working on the fin de siècle, Victorian popular fiction, journalism, and the publishing history of the short story.” (‪Emma Liggins, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 54 (1), 2021)

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Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her first book, Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (2014), was awarded the H.R.F. Keating Prize in 2015.

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