The Trail of the Serpent Contributor(s): Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Author), Welter, Catherine M. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1988963257 ISBN-13: 9781988963259 Publisher: Universitas Press OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 330 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Victorian England's best-selling woman novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon still captivates readers with this chilling story of murder, betrayal, and friendship. Hailed as the first detective novel, The Trail of the Serpent is enjoying a much deserved revival. The Trail of the Serpent is both a sensation novel and a detective novel. It has all of the usual elements of a sensation novel, including family secrets, crime, and adultery (a ruse, in this case), and it depicts these as features of middle- and upper-class life. Yet The Trail's role as a detective novel is arguably more important, for while it is an early example of both genres, it has the distinction of being the first British detective novel. It predates, and, in many respects, influenced Wilkie Collins's Moonstone and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock series, but unlike these works, The Trail's place in the history of detective fiction has often been overlooked. |