Dec 18, 2009
Although Charles Dickens did not gain his fame as a writer of mystery/detective fiction, he was unquestionably the nineteenth century master of the genre known as the “sensation novel,” a melodramatic fiction in which mystery, crime, villainy, and secret evil predominate. Moreover, Dickens made use of his knowledge of the newly created Metropolitan Police Force in England, focusing on their detective procedures in several short works and in one of his most respected novels, Bleak House (1852-1853). His unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood...
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