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| Israel Zangwill, NYPL |
Published in the spring 2015
Victorian Periodicals Review is Clare Clarke's "
Something for the 'Silly Season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery." In this article,
Clarke (Trinity College Dublin) focuses on Zangwill's critique of crime reportage and Scotland Yard in the locked-room
Big Bow Mystery, a novel that she believes has been neglected despite its wild popularity when it was first serialized and its place on the
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone List of essential mysteries. Zangwill (1864–1926) is best known as a poet and playwright, his works
The Melting Pot and
Children of the Ghetto, and his commentary on Zionist matters.
Clarke's article continues her interest in somewhat shady fictional detectives of the Victorian era, as she previously wrote for
Clues on Arthur Morrison's criminal-detective Horace Dorrington. Her recent book is
Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock.
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