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Fans of Sherlock Holmes won't want to miss this collection of stories featuring the shrewd detective Martin Hewitt. Penned in the same era as Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries, these thrilling tales cover shenanigans and misadventures ranging from jewel heists to robberies..
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I love detective stories and I have become more and more interested in the beginnings of the genre. To this end, I read a lot of Victorian detective stories. Martin Hewitt operated in the same London as Sherlock Holmes, but Hewitt is cheerful and working class as opposed to Holmes' idiosyncratic aesthete. The 8 stories in this collection are pleasant and relatively clever, but Hewitt is a fairly generic character and none of his opponents are memorably evil or terribly clever. Pleasant read, but nothing sticks much
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- Martin Hewitt, Investigator
- Original publication date
- 1894
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- Martin Hewitt
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- Those who retain any memory of the great law cases of fifteen or twenty years back will remember, at least, the title of that extraordinary will case, "Bartley v. Bartley and others," which occupied the Probate Court f... (show all)or some weeks on end, and caused an amount of public interest rarely accorded to any but the cases considered in the other division of the same court.
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