{"product_id":"9781643130712","title":"The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes : The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, 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 \u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e If \u003ci\u003eRue Morgue\u003c\/i\u003e 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—\u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e (1859) and \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e (1868)—Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s \u003ci\u003eThe Trail of the Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e (1861) or \u003ci\u003eAurora Floyd\u003c\/i\u003e (1862), and \u003ci\u003eThe Notting Hill Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e (1862-3) by the pseudonymous “Charles Felix.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Graeme Davis, features exploits of both the great detective’s predecessors—such as Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin—and his numerous literary progeny, including R. Austin Freeman’s scientific Dr. Thorndyke and Ernest Bramah’s blind Max Carrados. Holmes authority Leslie S. Klinger opens the anthology with a generous background essay, after which Davis reprints a variety of excellent stories.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Davis’s collection offers the pleasure of undiscovered countries.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome addition to early English detective fiction anthologies. Solid entries will be new to many.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781643130712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Pegasus Crime","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40592004022478,"sku":"9781643130712","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_cc4824f9-10ed-41e3-904a-eac2bc2ff653.jpg?v=1637761149","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781643130712","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}