Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives, police officers and eccentric criminologists. These were the 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes' and this second anthology of stories edited by Nick Rennison, author of Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography, highlights fifteen of them:Mr Booth created by Herbert KeenMax Carrados created by Ernest BramahFlorence Cusack created by LT Meade and Robert EustaceJohn Dollar, 'The Crime Doctor' created by EW HornungDick Donovan created by JE Preston MuddockHorace Dorrington created by Arthur MorrisonMartin Hewitt created by Arthur MorrisonJudith Lee created by Richard MarshMadelyn Mack created by Hugh Cosgro WeirLady Molly of Scotland Yard created by Baroness OrczyAddington Peace created by Fletcher RobinsonMark Poignand and Kala Persad created by Headon HillJohn Pym created by David Christie MurrayChristopher Quarles created by Percy BrebnerJohn Thorndyke created by R Austin Freeman

Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives, police officers and eccentric criminologists.These were the 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes' and this second anthology of stories edited by Nick Rennison, author of Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography, highlights fifteen of them:Mr Booth created by Herbert KeenMax Carrados created by Ernest BramahFlorence Cusack created by LT Meade and Robert EustaceJohn Dollar, 'The Crime Doctor' created by EW HornungDick Donovan created by JE Preston MuddockHorace Dorrington created by Arthur MorrisonMartin Hewitt created by Arthur MorrisonJudith Lee created by Richard MarshMadelyn Mack created by Hugh Cosgro WeirLady Molly of Scotland Yard created by Baroness OrczyAddington Peace created by Fletcher RobinsonMark Poignand and Kala Persad created by Headon HillJohn Pym created by David Christie MurrayChristopher Quarles created by Percy BrebnerJohn Thorndyke created by R Austin Freeman