Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author--man or woman--of a full-length detective novel. This novel, "The Dead Letter," is presented here along with another of Victor's mysteries, "The Figure Eight." Both written in the 1860s and published under the name Seeley Regester, these novels show how--by combining conventions of the mystery form first developed by Edgar Allan Poe with those of the domestic novel--Victor pioneered the domestic detective story and paved the way for generations of writers to follow.
In...
Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author--man or woman--of a full-l...
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor Catherine Ross Nickerson
Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author man or woman of a full-length detective novel. This novel, "The Dead Letter," is presented here along with another of Victor s mysteries, "The Figure Eight." Both written in the 1860s and published under the name Seeley Regester, these novels show how by combining conventions of the mystery form first developed by Edgar Allan Poe with those of the domestic novel Victor pioneered the domestic detective story and paved the way for generations of writers to follow.
In...
Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author man or woman of a full-len...
