From Bow Street to Baker Street: Mystery, Detection and Narrative

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Through a reading which articulates formal analysis with a detailed historical account of the development of police and of detective fiction , this book reinstates the radical potentialities of 19th century mystery and detective stories. It shows that 19th century stories of this nature are not, as they are usually held to be, precursors of Conan Doyle’s revisionary nostalgia for mastery but rather critical explorations of the dominant strategies for representing and controlling contemporary mystery.