The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914

by Graeme Davis

Book Overview

If "Rue Morgue" was the first true detective story in English, the title of the first full-length detective novel is more hotly contested. Two books by Wilkie Collins--The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868)--are often given that honor, with the latter showing many of the features that came to identify the genre: a locked-room murder in an English country house; bungling local detectives outmatched by a brilliant amateur...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643130714
• ISBN13: 9781643130712
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Pegasus Crime
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"