The Dead Letter and the Figure Eight

by Metta Fuller Victor and Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

Book Overview

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...

• 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"