The rivals of Sherlock Holmes : a collection of Victorian detective tales
Title:
The rivals of Sherlock Holmes : a collection of Victorian detective tales
Summary:
This volume collects more than forty detective tales published in the same years that Sherlock Holmes earned his formidable reputation as the Great Detective. It includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others that broke ground for the detective story, as well as featuring lady sleuths in stories by Wilkie Collins, Richard Marsh, Anna Katherine Green, and others. Also included are Sherlockian Satires and Homages, in the form of respectful and comic riffs on Sherlock Holmes and his methods by Henry, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and others.
Year Published:
2015
Physical Description:
xi, 707 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / The purloined letter / Three "detective" anecdotes / The little old man of Batignolles / "Thou art the man" / The great ruby robbery / The Lenton Croft robberies / The Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds / The mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel / The case of Oscar Brodski / The coin of Dionysius / A hunt for a murderer / The tragedy of a third smoker / The green-stone god and the stockbroker / The contents of the coffin / Sir Gilbert Murrell's picture / The hundred thousand dollar robbery / The Hammer of God / The riddle of the 5:28 / The affair of the double thumb print / The art of forgery / The case of Helen Bond / The amateur / The problem of Cell 13 / The angel of the Lord / The wire-devil Francis Lynde -- Philo Gubb's greatest case / The lost diamonds / The unknown weapon / The diary of Anne Rodway / How he cut his stick / The man with the wild eyes / The golden slipper / Mandragora / The murder at Troyte's Hill / The great Pegram mystery / The adventure of the clothes-line / The stolen cigar case / The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / The Umbrosa burglary / An irreducible detective story / Biographical notes -- Sources.
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ISBN:
9781435160200
Publisher:
New York Fall River Press, [2015]
©2015.
