TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sims,Michael
TI  - The dead witness: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories 
SN  - 0802779182
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Walker & Co.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Short stories
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: Prophets looking backward / by Michael Sims -- The secret cell / by William E. Burton -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / by Edgar Allan Poe -- On duty with Inspector Field / by Charles Dickens -- The diary of Anne Rodway / by Wilkie Collins -- You are not human, Monsieur d'Artagnan / by Alexandre Dumas -- Arrested on suspicion / by Andrew Forrester Jr. -- The dead witness; or, The bush waterhole / by W. W. (Mary Fortune) -- The mysterious human leg / by James McGovan (William Crawford Honeyman) -- The little old man of Batignolles / by Émile Gaboriau -- The science of deduction / by Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Whitechapel mystery / by Anonymous -- The assassin's natal autograph / by Mark Twain -- The murder at Troyte's Hill / by C. L. Pirkis -- The Haverstock Hill murder / by George R. Sims -- The stolen cigar-case / by Bret Harte -- The absent-minded coterie / by Robert Barr -- The hammer of God / by G. K. Chesterton -- The angel of the lord / by Melville Davisson Post -- The crime at Big Tree Portage / by Hesketh Prichard -- The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage / by Ernest Bramah -- The case of Padages Palmer / by Harvey O'Higgins -- An intangible clue / by Anna Katharine Green
N2  - "A scintillating new collection of the best Victorian detective stories--as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today!"--P. [4] of cover
ER  -