Shah, Zeynep Harputlu2024-12-242024-12-2420212149-3871https://doi.org/10.30783/nevsosbilen.882657https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1164537https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12604/4736This study seeks to examine (mis) representations of otherness in British detective fiction and focuses on the travelling gypsies as the criminal other in “The Case of the Missing Hand”, a story published in 1895 in Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison. In line with its objectives, the study firstly introduces characteristics of Victorian detective fiction and then provides a literary analysis of the crime story with a presumed murder victim, an exoticized crime setting, the detective figure and a foreign gypsy as the criminal other. In the article, it is argued that Morrison’s short story is a reflection of the strong stereotyping of the gypsies in Victorian society and depicts misrepresentation of the figure of the outsider gypsy as the criminal/villain in British community for endangering their sense of security and safety in the period. The use of primaeval superstitions as a motive for committing a crime further demonstrates estrangement of the gypsy community by distancing them both culturally and temporally through implications of primitiveness and savagenesseninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCrimeGypsiesOthernessDetective StoryVictorian EraArthur MorrisonArticle111406414116453710.30783/nevsosbilen.882657