Arthur Morrison
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Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 – 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for detective stories featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. Much of his collection entered the British Museum, through both purchase and bequest. Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896). [Wikipedia]
Books
The hole in the wall
Eight short stories written in the nineteenth century: The Hole in the Wall, by A. Keary; The Old Story of Mrs. Howard, by Mrs. Sherwood; The Stolen Child, by Mrs. Sherwood; A Puzzle for a Curious Girl, by Anonymous; Waste Not, Want Not, or Two Strings to Your Bow, by M. Edgeworth; The Grandmother's Shoe, by J. Ingelow; The Little Rick-burners, by C. Yonge; and Snap-dragons: a Tale of Christmas Eve, by J. H. Ewing.
The green eye of Goona
The priceless green diamond belonging to the Rajah of Goona has been stolen, and Harvey Crooks has been asked to bring a case of Imperial Tokay wine to England for an acquaintance named Hahn. But one of the bottles has more in it than a rare green wine--a fact Crooks only learns after he has sold the wine. With Hahn and several others also after the diamond, it's a race to get the bottles--and to stay alive.
The Red Triangle
Fourth and last collection of detective fiction featuring Martin Hewitt, a famous private detective whose methods closely resemble those of Sherlock Holmes. In this series of six linked sensation stories Hewitt pursues a Moriarty-like master criminal who uses hypnotism to conduct his criminal activities and control his henchmen.
The Sport of crime
Nineteen tales of mystery & murder set in the world of sports. The man who pretended to like baseball / Isaac Asimov Diamond Dick / Jon L. Breen A game of chess / Robert Barr Coffin corner / Anthony Boucher The great rodeo fix / Leo R. Ellis The sailing club / David Ely The season ticket holder / Joyce Harrington The last downhill / Clark Howard The other runner / John Lutz Storm / Ed McBain Dead on the pin / John D. MacDonald The affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited" / Arthur Morrison Tomorrow's murder / Stuart Palmer Trojan horse / Ellery Queen The return of Cardula / Jack Ritchie This won't kill you / Rex Stout Murder on the race course / Julian Symons The hustler / Walter S. Tevis Without the option / P. G. Wodehouse
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Purloined letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins Murder under the microscope / William Russell Three strangers / Thomas Hardy Gallagher / Richard Harding Davis [Red-headed league]( / Arthur Conan Doyle Cheating the gallows / Israel Zangwill Chemistry of anarchy / Robert Barr Sheriff of Gullmore / Melville Davisson Post The Episode of the Mexican Seer / Grant Allen Affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited' / Arthur Morrison Nameless man / Rodriguez Ottolengui His defense / Harry Stillwell Edwards Man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
A Book of Short Stories
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: [The minister's black veil]( Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: [Fall of the House of Usher]( the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's Bell. O. Henry: Phœbe. Rudyard Kipling: The man who was.
Classic Detective Stories. 3/3
The mandarin's pearl ; The blue sequin / R. Austin Freeman -- The Chicago heiress / Clifford Ashdown -- The case of Mr. Geldard's elopement ; The case of the Ward Lane tabernacle / Arthur Morrison -- The Liverpool mystery ; The Case of Miss Eliot / Baroness Orczy -- The little old man of Batignolle / Emile Gaborieau -- The secret of the fox delight / Anna Katherine Green -- The adventure of the naval treaty / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Detection by Gaslight
[Adventure of the Copper Beeches]( Case of the lost foreigner / Arthur Morrison -- Ghost of Fountain Lane / Catherine L. Pirkis -- Return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Divination of the Zagury Capsules / Headon Hill -- York mystery / Baroness Orczy -- Haverstock Hill murder / George R. Sims -- Dead hand / R. Austin Freeman -- Mr. Bovey's unexpected will / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace -- Perverted genius / Silas K. Hocking -- Eye of Apollo / G.K. Chesterton -- Purple emperor / Robert W. Chambers -- Tragedy of the life raft / Jacques Futrelle -- Story of Baelbrow / E. and H. Heron.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes was not the only detective solving mysteries and foiling the plans of criminal masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. The years from 1890 to 1914 were a golden age for English magazines and most of them published crime and detective fiction. The success of the Holmes stories spawned countless imitators. This volume highlights some of those rivals of Sherlock Holmes. They include: >THE THINKING MACHINE - Jacques Futtrelle's intellectual genius Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, capable of solving the most baffling mysteries through brainpower alone. >CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER - detective of the occult created by the legendary horror writer William Hope Hodgson. >NOVEMBER JOE - Hesketh Prichard's Canadian woodsman who uses his extraordinary powers of observation to track down villains and bring them to justice. >CRAIG KENNEDY - Arthur B. Reeve's scientific detective from the early 1900s who uses startling new technological advancements like X-rays and microphones. It may well be true that there has never been a detective quite like Sherlock Holmes, but he did not stand alone. He had his rivals and, as this collection of short stories shows, many of their adventures were as exciting and entertaining as those of the master himself.