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William J. Palmer is a professor of English and the author of the "Mr. Dickens" series of Victorian murder mysteries. The "Mr. Dickens" series of four Victorian murder mysteries -- The Detective and Mr. Dickens, The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens, The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens, and The Dons and Mr. Dickens -- is going to be re-released by Diversion Books in April 2015.

He has written seven novels thus far, including his Wabash Trilogy. These three novels, a sports novel, a crime novel, and a comic novel about theater, are all set in the Wabash valley of Indiana. Academically, Palmer has written books and articles on the nature of literary criticism and the history of film.

Dr. Palmer received his doctorate in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1969, and taught at Purdue University beginning in 1969. He attained the rank of full professor there and is now professor emeritus. He received Purdue's "Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award" for academic year 1998-1999, and he was a member of the elite "Purdue Teaching Academy"

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William J. Palmer

William J. Palmer

Books from William J. Palmer

The Detective and Mr. Dickens

The Dons and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot

The Films of the Eighties: A Social History

The Uses of Money

The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Affair of the Feminist Phantom

Construction Accounting and Financial Management

Two Cities

The Films of the Nineties: The Decade of Spin

The Wabash Trilogy

Golf. Tennis. Murder

Golf. Tennis. Murder