SOURCE: Priestman, Martin. “The Detective Whodunnit from Poe to World War I.” In Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present, pp. 5-18. Plymouth, England: Northcote House, 1998.
In the following essay, Priestman provides an overview of the development of the crime-mystery-detective story from the 1840s to World War I.
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