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

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781643130712)

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

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

$25.95
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 by Davis, Graeme

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

$25.95
Format: Hardcover
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This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.

Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus--but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin, the hero of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," anticipated Holmes' deductive reasoning by more than forty years. In A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes' adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe--and to ﾉmile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur Lecoq debuted in France twenty years earlier.

If Rue Morgue was the first true detective story in English, the title of the first full-length detective novel is more hotly contested. Among the possibilities are two books by Wilkie Collins--The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868)--Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Trail of the Serpent (1861) or Aurora Floyd (1862), and The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-3) by the pseudonymous "Charles Felix."

As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages--hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted "cozy" murders in Britain--and these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required the intelligence and clear-sightedness that characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured in these pages.

Author: Graeme Davis
ISBN-10: 1643130714
ISBN-13: 9781643130712
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2019
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 04/22/2019
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2019 pg. 66
By Graeme Davis
By Graeme Davis
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Graeme Davis has been fascinated by horror fiction since his teens, devouring late-night reruns of the classic Universal and Hammer movies on his parents' black-and-white TV and stripping local thrift-stores of horror titles. He began writing for tabletop role-playing games in the early 1980s, and among many other credits he helped develop Games Workshop's blockbuster Warhammer dark-fantasy franchise and the 90s Gothic hit Vampire: The Masquerade, as well as more than 40 electronic games. This is his second anthology for Pegasus, following on from the 2017 collection Colonial Horrors. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado.

Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of the highly-acclaimed The New Annotated Dracula; The New Annotated Frankenstein; and the two-volume The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft, as well as the anthologies In the Shadow of Dracula and In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe. Together with Lisa Morton, he's also edited the anthologies Ghost Stories and Weird Women, both with extensive selections of Victorian horror. He lives in Malibu.

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