Criminal

Horace Dorrington, Criminal-Detective: Investigating the Re-emergence of the Rogue in Arthur Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897)

by Clare Clarke

Clues 28.2 (Autumn 2010)

This article examines The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), Arthur Morrison’s critically neglected second contribution to... more This article examines The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), Arthur Morrison’s critically neglected second contribution to the post–Sherlock Holmes detective short story genre. The article argues that as Dorrington is both a detective and a criminal, and the victim is the narrator, the stories subvert the usual reassuring moral and formal conventions of the late-Victorian detective genre. The Dorrington Deed-Box therefore contributes to a necessary re-evaluation of the formal, political, and ideological complexity of a genre that is more conventionally concerned with the upholding of law and order.

Pattern & Legal Consequences in Hospitalised Drug Abusers

by Dr. Navendu Gaur