Thread: What to read after Sherlock Holmes?
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Old 07-09-2011, 04:37 PM   #36
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In 1983 Penguin published an interesting omnibus volume The Penguin Complete Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. It comprises The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, and Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Altogether you get over a thousand pages of detective stories by writers who were contemporaneous with Doyle. they include figures such as Guy Boothby, L.T. Meade (the daughter of an Irish Rector}, Ernest Bramah, Baroness Orczy, and Arthur Morrison.

The collection is very entertaining and all of the authors are now in the public domain so that one can do a bit of further research if so inclined. I bought my copy when it was first issued and I don't know if there is any e-book version available. I do know that Gutenberg {check out the "Detective Fiction" Bookshelf} and Many Books do carry these authors {and many others}.
Oooh! I am going to search for that book, that sounds awesome! I am hoping my favorite online bookstore (BetterWorldBooks) will have a copy.
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