The Dead Letter and the Figure Eight
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Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author--man or woman--of a full-length detective novel. This novel, The Dead Letter , is presented here along with another of Victor's mysteries, The Figure Eight . Both written in the 1860s and published under the name Seeley Regester, these novels show how--by combining conventions of the mystery form first developed by Edgar Allan Poe with those of the domestic novel--Victor pioneered the domestic detective story and paved the way for generations of writers to follow. In The Dead Letter , Henry Moreland is killed by a single stab to the back. Against a background of post-Civil War politics, Richard Redfield, a young attorney, helps Burton, a legendary New York City detective, unravel the crime. In The Figure Eight, Joe Meredith undertakes a series of adventures and assumes a number of disguises to solve the mystery of the murder of his uncle and regain the lost fortune of his angelic cousin.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822331659
ISBN13:9780822331650
Release Date:August 2003
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 8.8"
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