Crime and Criminal (Annotated)

Richard Marsh's Crime and Criminal gathers the energies of late-Victorian popular fiction around the spectacle of wrongdoing: deception, pursuit, confession, and the unstable boundary between respectable society and its underworld. Written in Marsh's brisk, dramatic prose, the book belongs to the fin-de-siècle culture of sensation, detective intrigue, and moral unease. Its interest lies not merely...