Pickwick: Feminine Chicanery (Kadın Hilesi): An Ottoman Turkish Reader

A detective novel written nearly a hundred years ago in Ottoman Turkish featuring an American detective in turn-of-the-century New York is now translated into Modern Turkish and English, perhaps for the first time, to the delight of students wishing to learn Ottoman. A dime novel thriller, this detective story tells the tale of a treacherous woman's evil plot to seize an inheritance in a case of malicious impersonation. The original text was found in an old Istanbul bookshop by a professor ...