
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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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 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 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.
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- Intro
- Title
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- The Origins of Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger
- Introduction by Graeme Davis
- The Secret Cell by William Evans Burton
- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Detective Police by Charles Dickens
- The Trail of the Serpent (Extract) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Notting Hill Mystery (Extract) by "Charles Felix"
- The Mystery of Orcival (Extract) by Émile Gaboriau
- Mr. Policeman and the Cook by Wilkie Collins
- The Lenton Croft Robberies by Arthur Morrison
- Gentlemen and Players and the return match by E. W. Hornung
- The Secret of the Fox Hunter by William le Queux
- The Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle
- The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Extract) by Gaston Leroux
- The Jewish Lamp (Extract) by Maurice Leblanc
- The Man with the Nailed Shoes by R. Austin Freeman
- The Ninescore Mystery by Baroness Orczy
- The Scientific Cracksman by Arthur B. Reeve
- The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
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