by Michael Sims
Sayers, Dorothy L. Introduction to Omnibus of Crime. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1929.
Sims, Michael, ed. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, by Maurice Leblanc. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. See introduction.
______. Introduction to The Leavenworth Case, by Anna Katharine Green. New York: Penguin Classics, 2010.
______, ed. The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. See introduction and story introductions.
______, ed. The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Penguin Classics, 2011.
Slung, Michele B., ed. Crime on Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties. New York: Pantheon, 1975. See Slung’s introduction.
Stashower, Daniel. The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder. New York: Dutton, 2006.
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Summerscale, Kate. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective. New York: Walker, 2008.
Van Dover, J. K., and John F. Webb. Isn’t Justice Always Unfair? The Detective in Southern Literature. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996. This volume covers many detectives; those relevant to The Dead Witness include Pudd’nhead Wilson and Uncle Abner.
Watson, Colin. Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience. Rev. ed. London: Macmillan, 1979.
Winn, Dilys. Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery. New York: Workman, 1979.
______. Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader’s Companion. New York: Workman, 1977.
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