What an opening; Doug Levin is a nice guy to give me the
opportunity
for BSP. I hadn't mentioend the collection because it's
not
noir, and the PI tales (Holmes and others) are not really
connected
with Daly, Hammett, Chandler, et al. But since you ask . . .
the
book contains 14 Victorian and Edwardian detective
stories--Holmes
and competitors. Besides the Holmes and Chesterton stories, I
chose
tales that are very little known, mostly uncollected since
their
original appearances. I included 3 professional woman
detectives--Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brookes, George Sims's
Dorcas
Dene, and Elizabeth Meade's Florence Cusack. I also have a
story
featuring an occult detective, who investigates haunted
houses, an
uncollected Thinking Macheine by Jacques Futrelle, and an
uncollected Dr. Thorndyke by F.
Austin Freeman, a clerical sleuth who preceeds Chesterton's
Father Brown, a rare detective story by Kipling--and
other tales.
How Dover can make money charging only 2 bucks for the book,
I don't
know.
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