The first flourishing of the English detective novel, with The Moonstone and so on, was in the 1860s. Yes, and I posted a few months ago about a German novella from 1828 which is absolutely a detective story: https://moon-custafer.dreamwidth.org/565539.html (It’s also, hilariously, a full-on Romantic work— I think I described it as CSI: Young Werther.)
Also, I love The Moonstone (apart from everything else, there are so many shippable pairings).
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Date: 2018-09-05 12:19 pm (UTC)From:I do hope I’m not over-selling it, though.
The first flourishing of the English detective novel, with The Moonstone and so on, was in the 1860s.
Yes, and I posted a few months ago about a German novella from 1828 which is absolutely a detective story: https://moon-custafer.dreamwidth.org/565539.html (It’s also, hilariously, a full-on Romantic work— I think I described it as CSI: Young Werther.)
Also, I love The Moonstone (apart from everything else, there are so many shippable pairings).