title: The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England
author:  Haia Shpayer-Makov 
description: <br>"[W]ell written and exhaustively researched....The writing is extremely clear and precise, and the author's choice of illuminating examples enlivens her analysis considerably."--<em>Journal of Modern History</em>
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  ELLERY QUEEN’S
  
  
  
  
  
  JAPANESE GOLDEN DOZEN
  
  
  
  
  
  The Detective Story World
  
  
  in Japan
  
  
  
  
  
  Edited
  
  
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  Ellery Queen
  
  
  
  
  
  CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  © 1978 by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 77-83615
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4629-1157-8 (ebook)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First printing, 1978
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Printed in U.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  