The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

Pages: 248
Published: 2009
Language: English

Step into the gaslight era, a time when criminal masterminds relied on their intellect rather than brute force, and the magnifying glass was the cutting edge of detective work. This collection brings together the finest crime fiction from the period, featuring legendary thieves who outwit their pursuers across London, Paris, New York, and Ostend. Discover stories by renowned authors from both within and beyond the mystery genre, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Nostalgic Intellectual

Heist

Classics Crime Mystery

Authors

Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, whose novels and plays generally reflected middle-class life in north Staffordshire. He was born in Hanley, Staffordshire (which is now Stoke-on-Trent), the son of a solicitor. He was educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme. After school, he worked for his father, and in his spare time he was a journalist. At age twenty-one, he moved to London to work as a solicitor's clerk. In 1889 he won a writing competition in Tit-Bits maga...

E. W. Hornung

E. W. Hornung is the author behind The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes. He's known for his work in the mystery and detective fiction genres.

Grant Allen

Grant Allen is a pen-name of Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen, a Canadian science writer and novelist, and a proponent of the theory of evolution. - Wikipedia

Guy Boothby

Australian writer

Michael Sims

Michael Sims is an editor and author specializing in historical crime. His most popular work is The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, a collection of classic mystery stories from the gaslight era.