" Anna Maria Jones is very self-aware that this work is both a study and an example of the critical crossroads at which contemporary Victorian Studies stands. "Problem Novels" is convincing, compelling, and an important attempt to take stock of a moment in Victorian Studies in which critics are better at identifying the blind spots of past works than at accounting for their own." -- Caroline Reitz, author of "Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture"