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A Wordcloud History of early Crime Fiction

April 8, 2015AHRC, Big Data, Data VisualisationA.E.W. Mason, Austin Freeman, Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Gaboriau, Gabriel Hanaud, Hornung, Hume, Leblanc, Leroux, Van Dine, Wallace, Wilkie Collinsdjeannerod Leave a comment

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Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Graham’s Magazine, Philadelphia, 1841)

Total of 13,724 words and 2,847 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus: voice (42), said (35), Dupin(27), house (26), head (24).

Emile GABORIAU (1836-1873) L’Affaire Lerouge (Le Pays, 1863; Paris, Dentu, 1866; The Widow Lerouge, 1873)

Total of 123,867 words and 8,792 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus: said (450), old (443), Sir(351), Noel (311), man (288).

Emile GABORIAU (1836-1873) Le Crime d’Orcival (1867), The Mystery of Orcival

Total of 103,639 words and 8,452 unique words. Most frequent words in the corpus: said (532), Lecoq (322), Plantat (307), man (252), know (230) Continue reading →

The Mysterious novels authors

February 28, 2015AHRC, Archive, Bilipo, Database, Detective storyArnould Galopin, Fergus Hume, Gustave Le Rouge, Henri Jeanne, Henry de Vere Stacpoole, Hornung, Jules Lermina, Lillie Thomas Meade, Oppenheim, René Thévenin, Tallandierdjeannerod Leave a comment

Fergus Hume (1856-1932)

French authors and authors translated from the English both feature, albeit in different proportions in Tallandier’s original series “Les Romans Mystérieux” (1910-1919). For eight authors in the Series writing in French, eleven write in English. Among the latter, two authors hail from Ireland, Henry de Vere Stacpoole, from Dún Laoghaire, and Lillie Thomas Meade, from Cork.