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03321aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 2A91FBA4BB3411E98BF16C3597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190810010021 008 190524s2019 nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1643130714 020 $a 9781643130712 035 $a (OCoLC)1102416267 040 $a XYZ $b eng $e rda $c XYZ $d XYZ $d OCLCO $d UUC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 245 04 $a The rivals of Sherlock Holmes : $b the greatest detective stories: 1837-1914 / $c edited by Graeme Davis. 250 $a First Pegasus books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Crime, $c 2019. 300 $a xix, 379 pages ; $c 24 cm 505 00 $t The coin of Dionysius / $r Ernest Bramah $t The mystery of Marie Roget / $r Edgar Allan Poe -- $t The detective police / $r Charles Dickens -- $t The trail of the serpent (extract) / $r Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- $t The notting hill mystery (extract) / $r Charles Felix -- $t The mystery of orcival (extract) / $r Emile Gaboriau -- $t Mr. Policeman and the cook / $r Wilkie Collins -- $t The lenton croft robberies / $r Arthur Morrison -- $t Gentlemen and players and the return match / $r E.W. Hornung $t The secret of the fox hunger / $r William le Querux -- $t The superfluous finger / $r Jacques Futrelle -- $t The mystery of the yellow room (extract) / $r Gaston Leroux -- $t The jewish lamp (extract) / $r Maurice Leblanc -- $t The man with the nailed shoes / $r R. Austin Freeman -- $t The ninescore mystery / $r Baroness Orczy -- $t The scientific cracksman / $r Arthur B. Reeve -- $t The coin of Dionysius / $r Ernest Bramah 520 $a Davis (More Deadly Than the Male, editor) makes a welcome addition to early English detective fiction anthologies. Unlike scholars who date the birth of the genre to Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Davis starts with an earlier short story, "The Secret Cell" by Poe's nemesis, William Evans Burton. That tale remains enjoyable today, with its dramatic account of the search for a missing 17-year-old servant, who stood to inherit a fortune from her employer. Other solid entries will also be new to many, such as an excerpt from the pseudonymous Charles Felix's The Notting Hill Mystery, an epistolary novel about a woman who supposedly drank a fatal dose of acid while sleepwalking. Davis's decision to excerpt novels doesn't always work: The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Phantom of the Opera creator Gaston Leroux doesn't deserve to be spoiled by a section from its denouement. 700 1 $a Davis, Graeme, $e editor. 700 12 $a Burton, William E. $q (William Evans), $d 1802-1860. $t Secret cell. 700 12 $a Poe, Edgar Allan, $d 1809-1849. $t Mystery of Marie Roget. 700 12 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870. $t Detective police. 700 12 $a Braddon, M. E. $q (Mary Elizabeth), $d 1835-1915. $t Three times dead. 700 12 $a Felix, Charles, $d 1833-1903. $t Notting Hill mystery. 700 12 $a Gaboriau, Emile, $d 1832-1873. $t Mystery of Orcival. 700 12 $a Collins, Wilkie, $d 1824-1889. $t Mr. Policeman and the cook. 700 12 $a Morrison, Arthur, $d 1863-1945. $t Lenton croft robberies. 700 12 $a Hornung, E. W. $q (Ernest William), $d 1866-1921. $t Gentlemen and players. 700 12 $a Hornung, E. W. $q (Ernest William), $d 1866-1921. $t Return march. 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20190810011059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A91FBA4BB3411E98BF16C3597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search