The Secret Queer True Crime History Behind the Victorian Era's Other Sherlock Holmes
E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories —he was the original Gentleman thief, and for fifty years as popular as Sherlock — are almost entirely forgotten outside specialist circles, yet they contain one of Victorian literature's most compelling implicit queer relationships. I've revived this pairing in my new novel 'The Great Game' and here's why.
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Jo Piazza on Writing Convincing Art Heists and Museum Mysteries
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Rebecca Wright Stevens on Amos Lane and Repping Alaska's Indigenous Citizens in Court
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