The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Classic detective stories in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes by: G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Alan Poe, R. Austin Freeman, and more.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories increased the public's interest in detective fiction and led many authors into the same genre in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes features forty detective short stories from Great Britain, the United States, and continental Europe which either inspired, or were inspired by, Doyle's work. The volume includes short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, and Craig Kennedy, along with Sherlockian satires and homages by Bret Hate, O. Henry, and others. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes also features an introduction by distinguished Sherlockian scholar Leslie B. Klinger.

Introduction / Leslie S. Klinger --
DISTINGUISHED PREDECESSORS: The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
Three "detective" anecdotes / Charles Dickens --
The little old man of Batignolles / Émile Gaboriau --
"Thou art the man" / Mary Elizabeth Braddon --
RIVALS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH: The great ruby robbery / Grant Allen --
The Lenton Croft robberies / Arthur Morrison --
The Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds / Guy Boothby --
The mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace --
The case of Oscar Brodski / R. Austin Freeman --
The coin of Dionysius / Ernest Bramah --
A hunt for a murderer / Dick Donovan --
The tragedy of a third smoker / C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne --
The green-stone god and the stockbroker / Fergus Hume --
The contents of the coffin / J.S. Fletcher --
Sir Gilbert Murrell's picture / Victor L. Whitechurch --
The hundred thousand dollar robbery / Hesketh Prichard --
The Hammer of God / G.K. Chesterton --
The riddle of the 5:28 / T.W. Hanshew --
AMERICAN RIVALS: The affair of the double thumb print / Charles Felton Pidgin --
The art of forgery / Rodrigues Ottolengui --
The case of Helen Bond / Arthur B. Reeve --
The amateur / Richard Harding David --
The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle --
The angel of the Lord / Melville Davisson Post --
The wire-devil / Francis Lynde --
Philo Gubb's greatest case / Ellis Parker Butler --
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: The lost diamonds / W.S. Hayward --
The unknown weapon / Andrew Forrester --
The diary of Anne Rodway / Wilkie Collins --
How he cut his stick / M. McDonnell Bodkin --
The man with the wild eyes / George R. Sims --
The golden slipper / Anna Kathrine Green --
Mandragora / Richard Marsh --
The murder at Troyte's Hill / C.L. Pirkis --
SHERLOCKIAN SATIRES AND HOMAGES: The great Pegram mystery / Robert Barr --
The adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells --
The stolen cigar case / Bret Harte --
The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / O. Henry --
The Umbrosa burglary / R.C. Lehmann --
An irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock --
Biographical notes --
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