Timeline
Lifetime:
1831 -
1885
Passed: ≈
139 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Books by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Dead Letter
Romance
Crime
Novel
Mystery
Detective
19th century
Murder
Mystery
Romance
Historical Fiction
Suspense
Investigation
Crime fiction
Melodrama
Dead letter office
Unclaimed letter
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter" is a pioneering American crime fiction novel. It follows Richard Redfield, a clerk in the Dead Letter Office, who stumbles upon a mysterious unclaimed letter. The letter's contents convince him that it holds the k...