but there's an 18th C crime novel of sorts Caleb Williams, a Danish 19th C novella Præsten i Vejlbye and Emile Gaborieau published Monsieur Lecoq in the same year as The Moonstone.
Thanks! I knew about preceding short stories, but I didn't know about other novels. Præsten i Vejlbye sounds excellent.
The Moonstone set the pattern for so much of the Golden Age stuff, though, and I'd say nobody would dispute that, but the law of human nature is that there's always someone who would dispute everything!
It was astonishing to me how many tropes it appeared to anticipate, meaning only that it really created them. Plus it was better on women and what I would call postcolonialism if it weren't the actual height of the British Empire than many, many, many of its successors.
(I'm never forgiving that guy who wrote a horror novel where Wilkie Collins was a serial killer. I mean, I shouldn't have read it, because obviously a horror novel on that subject was bound not to end well, as that's the duty of horror, but still.)
Was that Dan Simmons' Drood (2009)? If so, totally don't forgive Dan Simmons.
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Thanks! I knew about preceding short stories, but I didn't know about other novels. Præsten i Vejlbye sounds excellent.
The Moonstone set the pattern for so much of the Golden Age stuff, though, and I'd say nobody would dispute that, but the law of human nature is that there's always someone who would dispute everything!
It was astonishing to me how many tropes it appeared to anticipate, meaning only that it really created them. Plus it was better on women and what I would call postcolonialism if it weren't the actual height of the British Empire than many, many, many of its successors.
(I'm never forgiving that guy who wrote a horror novel where Wilkie Collins was a serial killer. I mean, I shouldn't have read it, because obviously a horror novel on that subject was bound not to end well, as that's the duty of horror, but still.)
Was that Dan Simmons' Drood (2009)? If so, totally don't forgive Dan Simmons.