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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

(2021)
An anthology of stories edited by

 
 
Edgar AwardwinnerOtto Penzler“detective fiction’s best editor and champion”(TheWashington Post)returns with a new anthology

of exhilarating mysteries,assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants


Behind the velvet curtains of horsedrawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries.

This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.
 
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Genre: Mystery

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