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The rivals of Sherlock Holmes : the greatest detective stories: 1837-1914 by Graeme Davis; William E Burton; Edgar Allan Poe; Charles Dickens; M. E Braddon; Charles Felix; Émile Gaboriau; Wilkie Collins; Arthur Morrison; E. W Hornung is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 Émile 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
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- Author
- Graeme Davis; William E Burton; Edgar Allan Poe; Charles Dickens; M. E Braddon; Charles Felix; Émile Gaboriau; Wilkie Collins; Arthur Morrison; E. W Hornung
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786695857
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Memoir, True Crime
Other editions & translations
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