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- Title
Clues in the Street: Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt, and Mean Streets.
- Authors
HARPER, LILA MARZ
- Abstract
The article examines how detective stories and crime fiction were a product of the growing urban environment during the Victorian period. Particular attention is paid to role of the public streets and back alleys in the development of the detective genre. It is suggested that detective stories illustrated a method of collecting clues from the street and provided an invitation for the middle class to align themselves with the state in protecting against the dangers posed by the urban underclass. The significance of the introduction of the character of Sherlock Holmes in the piece "A Study in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle published in "The Strand" magazine in 1891, is discussed.
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2009, Vol 42, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00571.x