Primary Sources

• William Ainsworth, Rookwood
  
• E. F. Bleiler, Three Victorian Detective Novels (Wilkie Collins, Andrew Forrester and Israel Zangwill)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
• Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
• Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
• Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  
• Thomas de Quincey, On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
• beatrix Hesse, The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Nineteenth Century British Newspapers, Nineteenth Century British Periodicals, The Times, The Guardian/Observer, The Daily Mail (all online)

Key reading

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England (references throughout)
• See also this lecture handout/powerpoint on Victorian Literature and Crime