Roots of Detection: The Art of Deduction Before Sherlock Holmes ed. Bruce Cassiday (Frederick Unger, 1983, 0-8044-2113-7, $12.95, 225pp, hc, an)
Also available in tp (-6065-5, $6.95).
- 1 · Deduction in Literature before Sherlock Holmes · Bruce Cassiday · in
- 7 · The Clue of the Headless Corpse · Herodotus · ex (r); from The Histories, Book II, (c. 443 b.c.).
- 12 · The Priests of Bel · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r)
- 15 · The Three Sharpers · translated by Sir Richard Burton · ex from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Kama Shastra Society, 1888
- 26 · The Dog and the Horse · Voltaire; translated by Tobias Smollett · ex from Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (r)
translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747).
- 30 · Mademoiselle de Scudery · E. T. A. Hoffmann; translated by Michael Bullock · na Four Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann, tr. Michael Bullock, NEL, 1962
translated from the German (“Das Fräulein von Scuderi”, Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820. Der Liebe und Freundschaft, 1819).
- 67 · The Killing of Sir John Tyrrell · Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton · ex from Pelham, 1828
- 82 · Clue of the Paper Scrap · François Eugène Vidocq; translated by Edwin Gile Rich · ex from The Memoirs of Vidocq, Houghton Mifflin, 1935
- 95 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
- 113 · Duel in the Bois-Rochin · Alexandre Dumas · ex from The Man in the Iron Mask, 1848
- 135 · A Touch of the Continental · Charles Dickens · ex from Bleak House, 1853
- 144 · The Stolen Letter · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words Christmas 1854, as “The Fourth Poor Traveller”, uncredited.
- 161 · The Unmasking of Thorn · Mrs. Henry Wood · ex from East Lynne, 1861
- 176 · Police-Sergeant Reading’s Clue · Charles Felix · ex from The Notting Hill Mystery, Saunders & Otley, 1865
- 181 · Footprints in the Snow · Emile Gaboriau · ex from Monsieur Lecoq, 1869
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