Detective Stories

This collection of detective stories gathers the Martin Hewitt tales of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), the English writer who created one of the most popular post-Sherlock-Holmes detectives of the 1890s. Morrison, also celebrated for his grim slum novel A Child of the Jago, wrote the Hewitt stories for The Strand Magazine as a deliberate everyman alternative to Holmes. The shrewd, genial investigator solves his cases by patient observation. The collection is a staple of Victorian detective fiction. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.