Metta Victoria (Fuller) Victor's Books

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author—man or woman—of a full-length detective novel. This novel, The Dead Letter, is presented here along with another of Victor’s mysteries, The Figure Eight. Both written in the 1860s and published under the name Seeley Regester, these novels show how—by combining conventions of the mystery form first developed by Edgar Allan Poe with those of the domestic novel—Victor pioneered the domestic detective story and paved the way for generations of writers to follow. In The Dead Letter, Henry Moreland is killed by a single stab to the back. Against a background of post–Civil War politics, Richard Redfield, a young attorney, helps Burton, a legendary New York City detective, unravel the crime. In The Figure Eight, Joe Meredith undertakes a series of adventures and assumes a number of disguises to solve the mystery of the murder of his uncle and regain the lost fortune of his angelic cousin.

John A rgyll, Esq., in his company, to take tea and spend the evening in his family. I was a law-student in the office, and was favored with more than ordinary kindness by him, on account of a friendship that had existed between him and my deceased father. When young men, they had started out in life together, in equal circumstances ;one had died early, just as fortune began to smile ;the other lived to continue in well-earned prosperity. Mr. Argyll had never ceased to take.an interest in the orphan son of his friend. He had aided my mother in giving me a collegiate education, and had taken me into his office to complete my law studies.

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Book's by Metta Victoria (Fuller) Victor

Lives of Female Mormons

Lives of Female Mormons

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters, A romance of Pike's Peak and New York

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters, A romance of Pike's Peak and New York

A Bad Boy's Diary

A Bad Boy's Diary

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters

The Dead Letter and The Figure Eight

The Dead Letter and The Figure Eight

The Dead Letter

The Dead Letter

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters, A romance of Pike's Peak and New York

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters, A romance of Pike's Peak and New York

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters

Nat Wolfe; Or, The Gold Hunters

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