| Higgins's Mysteries WOMEN & DETECTIVE FICTION A SELECTIVE CHRONOLOGY(1800-1920) |
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| E.T.A. Hoffmann (German Romantic
writer) stories contain all the genre's elements |
1818 | "Madame du Scuderie"
spinster sleuth |
| EDGAR ALLAN POE (American Romantic) "Father" of detective fiction |
1841 | "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" C. Auguste Dupin--super sleuth |
| East Lynne by Ellen Price Wood The Revelations of a Lady Detective by W.S. Hayward |
1861 | "First" by woman writer "First" with female detective |
| Seeley Register--The Dead Letter | 1867 | First mystery by a woman |
| ANNA KATHARINE GREEN The Leavenworth Case |
1878 | First series character First American best seller |
| Arthur Conan Doyle -- SHERLOCK HOLMES | 1887 | First book--super sleuth |
| Catherine Louisa Pirkis--LOVEDAY BROOKE | 1894 | "The Murder at Troyte's Hill" |
| Anna Katharine GREEN's spinster sleuth | 1897 | Miss Amelia Butterworth--That Affair Next Door |
| L.T. Meade & R. Eustace--FLORENCE CUSACK | 1899 | "Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will" |
| Baroness ORCZY "The Case for Miss Elliot" |
1901 | The Old Man in the Corner |
| Jacques Futrelle's super sleuth | 1907 | "The Thinking Machine" |
| MARY ROBERTS RINEHART "The Circular Staircase" |
1909 | Invents H.I.B.K. (Had I ButKnown) |
| ORCZY--LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD | 1910 | "The Fordwych Castle Mystery" |
| G. K. Chesterton's average sleuth | 1911 | Father Brown |
| E. C. Bentley's Trent's Last Case average sleuth |
1913 | Marie Belloc Lowndes's brilliant
thriller The Lodger |
| Anna Katharine GREEN's VIOLET STRANGE | 1915 | "The Golden Slipper" |
| Susan Glaspell | 1917 | "A Jury of Her Peers" |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE's first book
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
1920 | The Golden Age begins |
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