Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
Title:
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
Author:
Rennison, Nick.
ISBN:
9781843440895
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- About the Editor -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen - Created by Jacques Futrelle -- The Problem of Cell 13 -- Loveday Brooke - Created by Catherine Louisa Pirkis -- The Murder at Troyte's Hill -- Dr Halifax - Created by L.T. Meade and Clifford Halifax -- The Horror of Studley Grange -- Father Brown - Created by G.K. Chesterton -- The Hammer of God -- Eugène Valmont - Created by Robert Barr -- The Clue of the Silver Spoons -- Sebastian Zambra - Created by Headon Hill -- The Sapient Monkey -- Carnacki the Ghost Finder - Created by William Hope Hodgson -- The Horse of the Invisible -- Thorpe Hazell - Created by Victor Whitechurch -- The Affair of the Corridor Express -- Mr Barnes and Mr Mitchel - Created by Rodrigues Ottolengui -- The Azteck Opal -- Klimo - Created by Guy Boothby -- The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds -- Hagar of the Pawn Shop - Created by Fergus Hume -- The Ninth Customer and the Casket -- November Joe - Created by Hesketh Prichard -- The Black Fox Skin -- Craig Kennedy - Created by Arthur B. Reeve -- The Deadly Tube -- Cecil Thorold - Created by Arnold Bennett -- A Bracelet at Bruges -- Miss Lois Cayley - Created by Grant Allen -- The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady.
Abstract:
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr. Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late 19th- and early 20th-century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. The years between 1890 and 1914 were a golden age for English magazines, most of which published crime and detective fiction. The startling success of the Holmes stories that appeared in The Strand magazine spawned countless imitators. This volume highlights some of those "rivals" of Sherlock Holmes. The 15 tales in this anthology introduce readers to such sleuths as lawyer-turned-detective Martin Hewitt; the old man in the corner who solves crimes that defeated Scotland Yard's finest, by the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel; forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke; Jacques Futrelle's dazzlingly intellectual genius, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, aka the Thinking Machine; and Carnacki the Ghost Finder, the detective of the occult, created by legendary horror writer William Hope Hodgson. It may well be true that there never has been and never will be a detective quite like Sherlock Holmes, but as this collection shows, he stood far from alone.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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