Classic detective fiction by one of the earliest rivals of Sherlock Holmes. This book contains seven exciting stories featuring Martin Hewitt.

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This is one of those stories

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This is one of those stories

Sherlock Holmes's contemporary solves nine mysteries that include a rash of jewel robberies, the theft of a sacred relic, a suicide that might have been a murder, and other intriguing cases.

Reproduction of the original: Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison

Arthur George Morrison (1863 - 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This was an extraordinarily successful collection of short stories, originally in four volumes (but all collected in this book), of a detective that was called "The Sherlock Holmes of the Working Class", and whose adventures have survived as classics.MARTIN HEWITTTHE COMPLETE 25 CASES IN FOUR BOOKSMartin Hewitt, InvestigatorChronicles Of Martin HewittAdventures Of Martin HewittThe Red Triangle: Further Chronicles Of Martin Hewitt

The Dorrington Deed Box is a collection of short stories by the British writer Arthur Morrison published in 1897. It contains six stories featuring cases of the unscrupulous London-based private detective Horace Dorrington, told from the viewpoint of one his clients and potential victims James Rigby.It was part of a general boom of detective stories in the wake of Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes. Morrison had previously written stories about an honest private detective Martin Hewitt, but with Dorrington he created a more cynical character who won't hesitate to commit armed robbery or murder to suit his own ends.