Robert Eustace

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Robert Eustace , actually Eustace Robert Barton ( 1854 - 1943 ), was a British physician and author of detective novels. He also used Eustace Robert Rawlings as a pseudonym .

Life

In his literary work, Eustace attached great importance to a technically accurate representation of medical facts. Because of his medical expertise, he also worked with several other crime novelists. The best-known author he worked with today was Dorothy L. Sayers , with whom he only wrote the detective novel The Documents in the Case , published in 1930 . He was responsible for the draft of the action and the scientific background to the incident.

With the authors Gertrude Warden (1859-1925) and Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) Eustace also wrote some works. His collaboration with the author LT Meade , with whom he collaborated on several short stories and novels, was more extensive . In Martha Hailey Dubose's opinion, the collaboration with Eustace is remarkable for the introduction of two female villains: Madame Sara in The Sorceress of the Strand and Madame Koluchy, the mastermind of a gang of gangsters in The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings . From Dubose's point of view, however, the most interesting protagonist from the collaboration with LT Meade is “Florence Cusack”: wealthy and independent, she solves complex criminal cases and is recognized in both the courtroom and Scotland Yard . Given the social role women were accorded at the time, this character is accorded an unusual role in the short stories written in 1899 and 1900.

Work (selection)

sole authorship
  • The Gold Star Line. Short stories . Ward Lock Books, London 1899.
  • A Human Bacillus. A story of a strange character . John Long Books, London 1907.
together with Edgar Jepson
  • The tea leaf . In: Otto Penzler (Ed.): The Black Lizard Big Book of locked-room mysteries. The most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled . Black Lizard Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-3077-4396-1 .
together with LT Meade
  • A Master of Mysteries. Short stories . Ward Lock Books, London 1898 (illustrated by J. Ambrose Walton).
  • Followed. The Secret of Emu Plain . In: Angus Evan Abbott (ed.): Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2: Forty-six stories of crime and detection . Castle Books, Secaucas, NJ 1979, ISBN 0-8900-9443-8 .
  • The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings . In: Michael Ashley (ed.): Steampunk. Extraordinary tales of Victorian futurism . Fall River Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4351-4193-3 .
  • The Arrest of Captain Vandeleur. A Miss Florence Cusack story . In: Michael Cox (Ed.): The Oxford Book of Victorian detective stories . OUP, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-1928-0448-0 (EA 1992 under Victorian Tales of mystery and detection )
  • The Outside Ledge. A Miss Florence Cusack story . In: Robert Weinberg (Ed.): One hundred dasdardly little detective stories . Sterling Publ., New York 2003, ISBN 1-4027-0974-9 .
  • The Sanctuary Club . Ward Lock Books, London 1900 (illustrated by Sidney Paget).
  • The Man Who Disappeared . In: Douglas G. Greene (ed.): Death locked in. An anthology of locked-room mysteries . International Polygonics, New York 1994, ISBN 1-5588-2138-4 (EA New York 1987)
  • The Last Square. Short story . London 1902
  • The Oracle of Maddox Street . London 1902.
  • The complete "Sorceress of the Strand" . Beltham Press, Raleigh, NC 2008, ISBN 978-1-4404-6437-9 .
  • The face in the dark . In: Dorothy L. Sayers (ed.): The omnibus of crime . Payson & Clarke, New York 1929.
  • Where the air is quivered . In: Sean Manley and Gogo Lewis (eds.): Masters of the macabre. An anthology of mystery, horror and detection . Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1975, ISBN 0-3850-0883-X .
together with Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Documents in the Case . Coronet Books, London 1990, ISBN 0-340-50220-7 (EA London 1930)
    • German: The Harrison case. Novel . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1965 (translated by Gerlinde Quenzer)
    • German: The Harrison Files. Novel . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-8052-0351-9 (translated by Otto Bayer)
together with Gertrude Warden
  • The Stolen Pearl. A romance of London . Ward Lock Books, London 1903 (illustrated by A. Allingham)

literature

  • Martha Hailey Dubose: Women of Mystery - The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists . Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-27655-3 .
  • Trvor H. Hall: Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace . In: Ders .: Dorothy L. Sayers. Nine literary studies . Duckworth Books, London 1980, ISBN 0-7156-1455-X , pp. 75-103.

Individual evidence

  1. Barbara Reynolds: Dorothy L. Sayers. Her life and her soul . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1993, ISBN 0-340-58151-4 .
  2. a b Martha Hailey Dubose: Women of Mystery , p. 11.
  3. Contents: The jeweled cobra. - The cypher with the human key. - The rice-paper chart. - In the jaw of the dog. - The yellow flag. - Me sacredchank.
  4. Contents: The mystery of the circular chamber. - The warder of the door. - The mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel. - The Eight-Mile Lock. - How Siwa spoke. - To prove an alibi.
  5. Contents: The death chair. - A visible sound. - The Diana Saphire. - East of North. - A handful of ashes. - The secret of the prison house.
  6. Contents: The Dead Hand. - fingertips.
  7. Contents: Madame Sara. - Blood Red Cross. - The Face of the Abott. - The talk of the town. - The bloodstone. - The teeth of the woolf.