Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Hardcover (Bonded Leather) - January 1, 2015 by Dziemianowicz (Author), Stefan (Compiler).

This volume collects more than forty detective tales published in the same years that Sherlock Holmes earned his formidable reputation as the Great Detective. It includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others that broke ground for the detective story, as well as featuring lady sleuths in stories by Wilkie Collins, Richard Marsh, Anna Katherine Green, and others. Also included are Sherlockian Satires and Homages, in the form of respectful and comic riffs on Sherlock Holmes and his methods by Henry, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and others.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 720 pages
• Dimensions 157 x 203 x 55mm | 890g
• Publication date 06 Aug 2015
• Publisher Barnes & Noble Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black and white illustrations
• ISBN10 1435160207
• ISBN13 9781435160200