 These began to be published in book form in 1853, "The Wetherbys" and "Too Clever by Half" both 1853, followed by "Too Much Alike" (1854), "The Forger's Wife" (1855, said to be the first English-language detective novel), "Captain Macdonald" (1856), "Will He Marry Her" (1858), "The Ex-Wife" (1858), "My Friend's Wife" (1859), "The Secret Police" (1859), and "Botany Bay; or True Stories of the Early Days of Australia" (1859).Some of these were very popular and were often reprinted, the twelfth edition of "Too Clever by Half" appearing in 1878.