Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich, popular poet and essayist and editor for nine years of The Atlantic Monthly (1881-1890), contributed three prose volumes of major interest to readers of detective and mystery fiction: Out of His Head (1862), Marjorie Daw and Other People (1873), and The Stillwater Tragedy (1880). An astute literary critic and a diligent student of Edgar Allan Poe, Aldrich was attracted to a detective fiction cloaked most often in...
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