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Hardcover The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 Book

ISBN: 1643130714

ISBN13: 9781643130712

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914

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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 honor, 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...

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