Rivals of Sherlock Holmes : forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines by Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Arnold Bennett, Richard Harding Davis , Arthur Conan Doyle, L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace, L.T. Meade & Clifford Halifax, M.D., Arthur Morrison, Newton Mac Tavish, Baroness E. Orczy, C.L. Pirkis, Clarence Rook, H.G. Wells, Fred M. White
Secaucus, NJ : Castle Books a division of Book Sales, Inc, 1978.
Publication Desc
484 p. : illus.
ISBN
0890092079
Book
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes : forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines by Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Arnold Bennett, Richard Harding Davis , Arthur Conan Doyle, L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace, L.T. Meade & Clifford Halifax, M.D., Arthur Morrison, Newton Mac Tavish, Baroness E. Orczy, C.L. Pirkis, Clarence Rook, H.G. Wells, Fred M. White
Forty stories exactly as the appeared in the original magazines, by authors who competed with Arthur Conan Doyle in entertaining the public.
Content Note
The great ruby robbery / Grant Allen -- The black bag left on a door-step; The murder at Troyte's Hill / C. L. Pirkis --An oak coffin; Without witnesses; The Ponsonby diamonds / L. T. Made & Clifford -- The loss of Sammy Crockett; The case of Mr. Foggatt; The case of the Dixon torpedo; The Stanway cameo mystery / Arthur Morrison -- The episode of the Mexican seer; The episode of the diamond links / Grant Allen -- The story of the man with the watches; The story of the lost special; The story of the black doctor; The story of the Jew's breast-plate / A. Conan Doyle -- The stir outside the Cafe Royal / Clarence Rook -- An unposted letter / Newton MacTavish -- The black narcissus / Fred M. White -- The Glasgow mystery; The York mystery; The Liverpool mystery; The Brighton mystery; The Edinburgh mystery; The Dublin mystery; The Birmingham mystery / Baroness E. Orczy -- Madame Sara; The blod-red cross; The face of the abbott / L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- In the fog; The story of the queen's messenger; The solicitor's story / Richard Harding Davis -- The mystery of the five hundred diamonds / Robert Barr -- The fire of London; A comedy on the Gold Coast; A bracelet at Bruges; A solution of the Algiers mystery; In the capital of the Sahara; Lo! T'was a gala night / Arnold Bennett -- The Hammerpond mystery / H. G. Wells.