Early German and Austrian Detective Fiction : An Anthology

Often considered an Anglo-American and French phenomenon, the detective story is now known to have been German as well, at least since Adolph Mullner's 1828 novella The Caliber - published 13 years before Edgar Allan Poe's Murders of the Rue Morgue. The Germanic stories, however, were neglected by German and Austrian academics with literary-canonical predilections, dismissed by self-important Anglo-American scholars, and suppressed by National Socialists. Now, scholars are re-examining noncanonical works in all genres.