![]() Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press, 1988. Tober Collection of Literary Forgery.)ĭid Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule…: Wood Engravings by John De Pol. (Special Collections has significant holdings related to Thomas J. Holmes of course determines that his enemy Professor Moriarty, Moriarty’s henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran, and Wise are one and the same. ![]() Wise (1859–1937), the eminent collector and bibliographer who was unmasked in the 1930s as the producer of spurious first editions of such authors as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris, and Alfred Tennyson. ![]() The “notorious forger” is a real person, Thomas J. Randall, an antiquarian bookseller who later became the first head of the Lilly Library at Indiana University, wrote The Adventure of the Notorious Forger for those familiar with the world of rare books. Others are deliberately set in a minor key, aimed at a niche audience and often printed in a collectable format. Watson, take the form of full-length novels, or, indeed, even whole series of novels. Some of the “new” adventures, often claiming to derive from an overlooked manuscript left by Dr. ![]() Sam Francisco, CA: Randall & Windle, 1978.įollowing Doyle’s death in 1930, Holmes seems to have had-and continues to have- a life of his own in the hands of other writers. Contemporary critics considered Pirkis’s plots and writing style better than Doyle’s, as well. Like Holmes, Brooke was brilliant, professional (as shown by the calling card affixed to this book’s front cover), and fully equal, if not superior, to Sherlock Holmes. this form of flattery.”) In the age of the New Woman, female sleuths and female authors were not left behind: Grant Allen’s Miss Cayley and Baroness Orczy’s Lady Molly (of Scotland Yard) have their admirers but perhaps the best of their kind was Loveday Brooke, the “lady detective” created by the novelist Catherine Pirkis in the pages of the Ludgate Monthly. Hornung’s Raffles, the gentleman thief, who, with his sidekick Bunny, was the flip side of Holmes-but then Hornung was Doyle’s brother-in-law and the first Raffles book was dedicated “To A. Such characters as Arthur Morrison’s Martin Hewitt, R. Imitators and competitors to Sherlock Holmes were legion. Crime fiction was especially in demand, with many writers using Doyle’s technique of following a detective through a series of stories which were then collected into books. The 1890s and the years following the turn of the century saw the short story become a major literary form, due to, among other factors, a plethora of new, illustrated periodicals serving a more widely literate and increasingly affluent public which craved reading matter. The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. Finally, Doyle resurrected his hero in “The Adventure of the Empty House” (first published in Collier’s in September 1903), explaining Holmes’s remarkable survival and absence on travels which took him as far away as Tibet before returning to more adventures in London.Ĭ. Bowing to popular demand, he produced The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902, but Watson’s narrative refers to long-past events before the battle with Moriarty. Doyle went on his way, collecting Holmes royalties, writing fiction, occasional verse, and an account of the Boer War. The world was shocked, and treated Holmes as a real person, with obituaries appearing in newspapers and mourners reputedly wearing black armbands. Holmes meets his end in an exciting, unforgettable way: hand-to-hand combat with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, above the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. His solution was simple: kill off his creation and he did this in “The Final Problem” which closes this volume. London: George Newnes, 1894.ĭespite, or possibly because of, their extraordinary success, Doyle began to tire of writing the Holmes stories even as he rushed to complete the second series commissioned by The Strand Magazine.
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