Acknowledgements * Introduction: Contexts *Part One: Edgar Allan Poe* "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie * "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination *Part Two: Charles Dickens*Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative * News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection andThe Mystery of Edwin Drood*Part Three: Arthur Conan Doyle* Sherlock Holmes and "The Book of Life" * Reading the Gravel Page: Lyell, Darwin and Doyle *The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind * Epilogue: "A Retrospection" * Notes * Index Acknowledgements * Introduction: Contexts *Part One: Edgar Allan Poe* "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie * "The GoldBug", Hieroglyphics, and the Historical Imagination *Part Two: Charles Dickens*Bleak House, the Nebular Hypothesis, and a Crisis in Narrative * News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection andThe Mystery of Edwin Drood*Part Three: Arthur Conan Doyle* Sherlock Holmes and "The Book of Life" * Reading the Gravel Page: Lyell, Darwin and Doyle *The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind * Epilogue: "A Retrospection" * Notes * Index.
Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence : The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle