Arthur Morrison
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers...
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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's deductive reasoning by more than forty years with his "tales of ratiocination." In "A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes's adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.