Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington
Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries assembling Victorian society's
lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horsedrawn
carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out
the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets
of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book
series Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling suspenseful Victorian
mysteries. This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle Thomas
Hardy Oscar Wilde Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant among other
legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and
straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting glitzy mysteries.
