More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives, police officers and eccentric criminologists.

These were the ‘Rivals of Sherlock Holmes’ and this second anthology of stories edited by Nick Rennison, author of Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography, highlights fifteen of them:

Mr Booth created by Herbert Keen

Max Carrados created by Ernest Bramah

Florence Cusack created by LT Meade and Robert Eustace

John Dollar, ‘The Crime Doctor’ created by EW Hornung

Dick Donovan created by JE Preston Muddock

Horace Dorrington created by Arthur Morrison

Martin Hewitt created by Arthur Morrison

Judith Lee created by Richard Marsh

Madelyn Mack created by Hugh Cosgro Weir

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard created by Baroness Orczy

Addington Peace created by Fletcher Robinson

Mark Poignand and Kala Persad created by Headon Hill

John Pym created by David Christie Murray

Christopher Quarles created by Percy Brebner

John Thorndyke created by R Austin Freeman