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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (Hardcover)
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (Hardcover)
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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". In A Study in Scarlet, the first
of Holmes' adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe-and to
Emile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur Lecoq debuted
in France twenty years earlier. 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 honour, 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 detective; a large cast of suspects and a
plethora of red herrings; and a final twist before the truth is
revealed. Others point to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Trail of the
Serpent (1861) or Aurora Floyd (1862), and others still to The
Notting Hill Mystery (1862-3) by the pseudonymous "Charles Felix".
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.
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