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Hunted Down
Hunted Down

Hunted Down

The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens

FICTION

300 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket

Trade Paper, $15.95 (US $15.95) (CA $18.95)

Publication Date: April 2014

ISBN 9780720610000

Rights: US & CA

Peter Owen Publishers (Apr 2014)

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Overview

A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genreCharles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination, his detectives have had a profound effect on the development of crime fiction, and Dickens is now seen as the first major publicist for the police detective. Here, Peter Haining has assembled a fascinating selection of Dickens's detective stories. Added to these are extracts from the novels in which the men of the law make their mark, including Mr. Nadgett from Martin Chuzzlewit, the first serious detective in an English novel, and Inspector Bucket from Bleak House.

Reviews

"This collection reaffirms that the influence of Charles Dickens on the development and achievements of detective fiction is unchallengeable."  —P. D. James, The Times

Author Biography

Peter Haining was a celebrated anthologist and author whose anthologies include The Golden Age of Crime Fiction and The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories.