British Detective Fiction 1891¿1901

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This book examines the developments in British detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, just six years after Holmes’s first appearance, when he had been the Strand Magazine’s biggest selling point for just two years, and at the height of his popularity with the Victorian reading public, Sherlock’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, killed him off. In 1900, Doyle decided to resurrect Holmes, once again in the pages of the Strand Magazine. This book examines works by six popular late-Victorian authors—L.T. Meade, C.L. Pirkis, Arthur Morrison, Fergus Hume, Richard Marsh, Kate and Vernon Hesketh Prichard-- and the rivals of Sherlock Holmes whom they created to take Sherlock’s place.  Readers will be introduced to an array of fascinating late-Victorian detectives--professional, amateur, male, female, old, young, a gypsy pawn shop worker, a forensic scientist, a New Woman detective, a British aristocrat, and a ghost-hunter, and more. Their adventures filled the pages of the Strand Magazine and rival British late-Victorian magazines and newspapers in the years while Sherlock was dead.  Dr Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Co-Director of the MPhil in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely on crime and detective fiction. Her first book, Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (Palgrave, 2014) was awarded the H.R.F. Keating Prize in 2015.