The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 by Graeme Davis

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914

Graeme Davis

364 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction mystery short stories adventurous mysterious slow-paced
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Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s French detective Dupin, the hero of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” anticipated Holmes’ deductive reasoning by more tha...

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