Dick Donovan

Dick Donovan est un détective de fiction inventé par Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock et apparaissant pour la première fois dans les pages de The Strand Magazine.

Le Personnage

Dick Donovan est un détective de la ville de Glasgow possédant un don pour les raisonnements logiques et utilisant des techniques de criminologie très en avance sur son époque^,.

Histoire éditoriale

Au XIX^e siècle, Dick Donovan est publié dans The Strand Magazine, aux côtés du Sherlock Holmes d'Arthur Conan Doyle. L'auteur lui donne ce nom en référence à un coureur de Bow Street du XVIII^e siècle, première force de police londonienne^,. La réussite de ses aventures et la popularité de Dick Donovan sera tellement grande que Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock finira par prendre ce pseudonyme afin de partager la popularité de son personnage^,. Ainsi nous pouvons retrouver quantité d'écrits dont la signature est Dick Donovan.

Apparitions

Dick Donovan est le détective de plus de 200 histoires, et tout comme les autres figures notables de la littérature Victorienne, il apparaît dans le roman graphique de Alan Moore et Kevin O'Neill intitulé La ligue des gentlemen extraordinaires.

Notes et références

↑ Russell James évoquera en 2009 dans son ouvrage "Great British Fictional Detectives", page 89, le caractère absurde de ces techniques d'investigation.

↑ (en) « Donovan, Dick », sur gadetection.pbworks.com, 2006 (consulté le 22 janvier 2019).
↑ (en) N. W. Erickson, Drop Dead Damsels, 2012, 250 p., "Even as Dick Donovan (the character) was sharing the pages of the strand magazine with Sherlock Holmes, Dick Donovan (the author) was not only generating those adventures of "the Glasgow Detective", but unleasing supernatural horrors upon his readership with the suitably-titled Tales of Terror (1899)"
↑ (en) Adrian Room, Dictionary of Pseudonyms : 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed., McFarland, 2014, 536 p. (ISBN 978-0-7864-5763-2 et 0-7864-5763-5, lire en ligne), Dick Donovan : Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1843-1934), Eng. Journalist, detective fiction writer. The writer took his name from one of the 18th-century Bow Street runners (a precursor of London Metropolitan Police). p. 150
↑ (en) NA NA, Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers, Springer, 2015, 1568 p. (ISBN 978-1-349-81366-7 et 1-349-81366-4, lire en ligne), "The name Donovan, according to Muddock's memoirs, was that of an 18th-century Bow Street Runner; the stories themselves, however, were all modern in setting. Dick Donovan remained the central figure in succeeding short story collections until The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch, in which Muddock wrote about a Czarist police official and Peter Brodie, an English detective." p.499
↑ (en) Hugh Lamb, A Bottomless Grave : And Other Victorian Tales Of Terreur, Courier Corporation, 2013, 224 p., « The pen name Dick Donovan concealed the identity one of the last century's most prolific authors. J. E. Preston Muddock wrote over 140 books in nearly forty years and to help publish this enormous output he adopted Dick Donovan as his nom de plume. His first book as muddock, the novel A False Heart, appeared in 1873, and his first Donovan titled, The Man Hunter, was published in 1888. »
↑ (en) Russell James, Great British Fictional Detectives, Barnsley (GB), Remember When, 2009, 272 p. (ISBN 978-1-84468-026-9, lire en ligne), "Early rival to Holmes, in a long series of stories by the journalist Joyce Emmerson Muddock (male) calling himself Dick Donovan and Often writing in the first person as if he himself were the detective." p.89
↑ (en) « Dick Donovan : the Glasgow detective », sur worldcat.org (consulté le 31 mai 2019).
↑ (en) Jess Nevins, « Notes on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #2 » [archive du 4 décembre 2003], sur enjolrasworld.com via Internet Archive (consulté le 31 mai 2019).

Portail du polar

[2] Russell James évoquera en 2009 dans son ouvrage "Great British Fictional Detectives", page 89, le caractère absurde de ces techniques d'investigation.

[1] (en) « Donovan, Dick », sur gadetection.pbworks.com, 2006 (consulté le 22 janvier 2019).

[3] (en) N. W. Erickson, Drop Dead Damsels, 2012, 250 p., "Even as Dick Donovan (the character) was sharing the pages of the strand magazine with Sherlock Holmes, Dick Donovan (the author) was not only generating those adventures of "the Glasgow Detective", but unleasing supernatural horrors upon his readership with the suitably-titled Tales of Terror (1899)"

[4] (en) Adrian Room, Dictionary of Pseudonyms : 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed., McFarland, 2014, 536 p. (ISBN 978-0-7864-5763-2 et 0-7864-5763-5, lire en ligne), Dick Donovan : Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1843-1934), Eng. Journalist, detective fiction writer. The writer took his name from one of the 18th-century Bow Street runners (a precursor of London Metropolitan Police). p. 150

[5] (en) NA NA, Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers, Springer, 2015, 1568 p. (ISBN 978-1-349-81366-7 et 1-349-81366-4, lire en ligne), "The name Donovan, according to Muddock's memoirs, was that of an 18th-century Bow Street Runner; the stories themselves, however, were all modern in setting. Dick Donovan remained the central figure in succeeding short story collections until The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch, in which Muddock wrote about a Czarist police official and Peter Brodie, an English detective." p.499

[6] (en) Hugh Lamb, A Bottomless Grave : And Other Victorian Tales Of Terreur, Courier Corporation, 2013, 224 p., « The pen name Dick Donovan concealed the identity one of the last century's most prolific authors. J. E. Preston Muddock wrote over 140 books in nearly forty years and to help publish this enormous output he adopted Dick Donovan as his nom de plume. His first book as muddock, the novel A False Heart, appeared in 1873, and his first Donovan titled, The Man Hunter, was published in 1888. »

[7] (en) Russell James, Great British Fictional Detectives, Barnsley (GB), Remember When, 2009, 272 p. (ISBN 978-1-84468-026-9, lire en ligne), "Early rival to Holmes, in a long series of stories by the journalist Joyce Emmerson Muddock (male) calling himself Dick Donovan and Often writing in the first person as if he himself were the detective." p.89

[8] (en) « Dick Donovan : the Glasgow detective », sur worldcat.org (consulté le 31 mai 2019).

[9] (en) Jess Nevins, « Notes on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #2 » [archive du 4 décembre 2003], sur enjolrasworld.com via Internet Archive (consulté le 31 mai 2019).