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| | Detective Offshoots of the Rogue School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | The Rogue school, such writers as Guy N. Boothby, Max Pemberton, Maurice Leblanc, and E.W. Hornung, wrote tales about clever thieves and swindlers, that were at one time immensely popular with Late Victorian readers. |
 | | The stories were comic and cheery in tone, and treated the crook protagonist as a hero. |
 | | Pemberton, Donovan, Leblanc, Fletcher, Freeman seem to be non-immigrant Englishmen and Frenchmen, in Leblanc's case. |
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