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Crime fiction—a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century—features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre—Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a

Title : Towards Sherlock Holmes: A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World
Author : Stephen Knight
Language : en
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