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    More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Stories from the Golden Age of Gaslight Crime

    By Nick Rennison

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    Sherlock Holmes was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives, police officers and eccentric criminologists. These were the rivals of Sherlock Holmes, and this second anthology of stories highlights 15 of them: Mr. Booth created by Herbert Keen, Max Carrados created by Ernest Bramah, Florence Cusack created by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace John Dollar, "The Crime Doctor" created by E. W. Hornung, Dick Donovan created by J. E. Preston Muddock, Horace Dorrington created by Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt created by Arthur Morrison, Judith Lee created by Richard Marsh, Madelyn Mack created by Hugh Cosgro Weir, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard created by Baroness Orczy, Addington Peace created by Fletcher Robinson, Mark Poignand and Kala Persad created by Headon Hill, John Pym created by David Christie Murray, Christopher Quarles created by Percy Brebner, and John Thorndyke created by R. Austin Freeman.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNo Exit
    Release dateMay 23, 2019
    ISBN9780857302618
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    Nick Rennison

    NICK RENNISON is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in modern history and in crime fiction. He is the author of 1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year, A Short History of Polar Exploration, Peter Mark Roget: A Biography, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture and Bohemian London, published by Oldcastle Books, and the editor of six anthologies of short stories for No Exit Press. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His crime novels, Carver's Quest and Carver's Truth, both set in nineteenth-century London, are published by Corvus. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and Daily Mail.

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