β Scribed by Nick Rennison
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Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives, police officers and eccentric criminologists.
These were the Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and this second anthology of stories edited by Nick Rennison, author of Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography, highlights fifteen of them:
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Los aΓ±os que median entre 1891, en que comienzan a publicarse Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes en el Strand Magazine, y 1914 marcan un gran perΓodo para la novela policial. Mientras que Sherlock Holmes sigue cautivando a centenas de millares, de lectores y a millones de televidentes, sus Γ©mulos o co
Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled
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Los aΓ±os que median entre 1891, en que comienzana publicarse Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes en elStrand Magazine, y 1914 marcan un gran perΓodo para la novela policial. Mientras que Sherlock Holmes sigue cautivando a centenas de millares, de lectores y a millones de televidentes, sus Γ©mulos o comp
Los aΓ±os que median entre 1891, en que comienzan a publicarse Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes en el Strand Magazine, y 1914 marcan un gran perΓodo para la novela policial. Mientras que Sherlock Holmes sigue cautivando a centenas de millares, de lectores y a millones de televidentes, sus Γ©mulos o co
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