Guy Boothby

P.185-186; Short account of the help of Aborigines in shipwreck Peruvian; p.266; Black tracker in Bimerah district; p.285-286; Welford district said to be haunted because of savage fights; p.297; Corroboree in Comongin district.

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.

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Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for the first time, the best crime fiction from the gaslight era gathered in a single volume. All the legendary thieves are present - from Colonel Clay to Get Rich Quick Wallingford - burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.

London, the decadent 1890s: a mysterious meeting is called in a private room of the sumptuous Imperial Hotel. The sinister Dr Nikola is presiding, but what masterpiece of crime is he planning? Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, a rugged young man rescues a girl from attack by ruffians. These two events are skilfully woven together in one of the classics of late Victorian crime fiction. Before his tragically early death, Boothby lived his life equally in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and in this novel he creates a narrative that moves breathtakingly from the West and East Ends of London to a thrilling climax in the South Seas via Egypt and Australia.

>The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents, and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was ensconced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense, and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining, and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor; Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine; Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective; the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth; and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentlemen crooks Raffles and Simon Carn, the Prince of Swindlers. The purloined letter (Edgar Allan Poe) -- The biter bit (Wilkie Collins) -- The stolen cigar-case (Brett Harte) -- A princess's vengeance (C.L. Pirkis) -- The absent-minded coterie (Robert Barr) -- The Swedish match (Anton Chekhov) -- The secrets of the Black Brotherhood (Dick Donovan) -- The episode of the diamond links (Grant Allen) -- A clever capture (Guy Clifford) -- Nine points of the law (E.W. Hornung) -- The stir outside the Cafe Royal (Clarence Rook) -- The Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds (Guy Boothby) -- The problem of dressing room A (Jacques Futrelle) -- The hundred-thousand-dollar robbery (Hesketh Prichard) -- The Surrey cattle-maiming mystery (Herbert Jenkins) -- The ghost at Massingham Mansions (Ernest Bramah) -- Sexton Blake and the time-killer (Anonymous) -- One possessed (E.W. Hornung) -- The great pearl mystery (Baroness Orczy).