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Cover of the Detection Club's
Ask a Policeman, featured in the
Monash University exhibition |
Monash University's "
The Body in the Library' exhibition provides a rich visual panorama of mystery history and is on display until June 8. Online highlights include covers of wonderfully
lurid works by Sax Rohmer, various Detection Club works, detective magazines, and
one of the Dick Donovan series that is contemporary with the Holmes stories (series discussed in
Clues 26.2). Not surprisingly for an Australian university, special attention is paid to Australian and New Zealand authors (such as
Fergus Hume,
Ngaio Marsh, Helen Simpson, and
Arthur Upfield) and an Australian
round-robin mystery novel of 1936. A welcome addition is "
Clarice Dyke, the Female Detective" (1883) by Harry Rockwood (aka Ernest A. Young) that features an early female sleuth.
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