Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. The years between 1890 and 1914 were a golden age for English magazines and most of them published crime and detective fiction. The startling success of the Holmes stories that appeared in The Strand magazine spawned countless imitators. This volume highlights some of those 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'
"'a book which will delight fans of crime fiction'"
Verbal Magazine
"'it's good to see that Mr Rennison has also selected some rarer pieces - and rarer detectives, such as November Joe, Sebastian Zambra, Cecil Thorold and Lois Cayley'"
The District Messenger (Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London)
