TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
A Double Barrelled Detective Story.
New York: Harper & Brothers , 1902.
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First edition of Mark Twain's A Double Barrelled Detective Story
First edition of Twain's playful parody of Sherlock Holmes. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth lettered and stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. BAL 3471. In near fine condition, top edge gilt.
Mark Twain’s A Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1902) is a satirical engagement with the conventions of late nineteenth-century detective fiction, particularly those popularized by Arthur Conan Doyle. Through exaggeration, narrative intrusion, and ironic reversals, Twain undermines the genre’s claims to rationality and logical certainty, exposing instead the arbitrariness and moral ambiguity underlying detective reasoning. The novella also reflects Twain’s broader skepticism toward scientific determinism and positivist thought, using parody to question the cultural authority of deductive logic.
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