Horace Dorrington, criminal detective: investigating the re-emergence of the rogue in Arthur Morrison s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897).

Abstract

Regarding The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), Arthur Morrison’s critically neglected second contribution to the post–Sherlock Holmes detective short story genre, the author 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.