Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
"The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, 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."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus-but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's French detective Dupin, the hero of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", anticipated Holmes' deductive reasoning by more than forty years with his "tales of ratiocination". Les mer
As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages-of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called "cosy" murders in Britain-the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other-but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required the intelligence and clear-sightedness that characterised the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured in these pages.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pegasus Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781643130712
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
"The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, 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."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"Davis’s collection offers the pleasure of undiscovered countries."
Booklist
"A welcome addition to early English detective fiction anthologies. Solid entries will be new to many."
Publishers Weekly