BOOKS by Catherine Ross Nickerson

The Dead Letter, & the Figure Eight more books like this

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Catherine Ross Nickerson (Introduction by)

Before Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, and before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author - man or woman - of a full-length detective novel. Originally published in 1866, "The Dead Letter" is presented here along with another of Victor's mysteries, "The Figure Eight", out of print since its ...

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That Affair Next Door and Lost Man's Lane more books like this

by Anna Katharine Green, Catherine Ross Nickerson (Introduction by)

Anna Katharine Green was the most famous and prolific writer of detective fiction in the United States prior to Dashiell Hammett. Her first novel, "The Leavenworth Case", was the bestseller of 1878. Green is credited with a number of "firsts" within the mystery genre: she developed the tropes of the gentleman murdered as he makes out his will, and ...

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