""The Dead Letter"" and ""The Figure Eight""

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Metta Fullervictor, Victor. Duke University Press, $24.95 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-8223-3165-0

Duke University Press makes available in two volumes four late Victorian mysteries of particular interest to scholars and feminist readers: The Dead Letter & The Figure Eight by Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author of a full-length detective novel and That Affair Next Door & Lost Man's Lane by Anna Katharine Green, the most prolific American author of detective fiction before Dashiell Hammett .

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