The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (book series)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a series of anthologies of detective stories edited by Hugh Greene, a former Director General of the BBC.
Some of the stories were adapted for a television series of the same title, broadcast 1971–1973.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
[edit]| Author | Story | Lead character |
|---|---|---|
| Max Pemberton | "The Ripening Rubies" | Bernard Sutton |
| Arthur Morrison | "The Case of Laker, Absconded" | Martin Hewitt |
| Guy Boothby | "The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds" | Simon Carne/Klimo |
| Arthur Morrison | "The Affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited'" | Horace Dorrington |
| Clifford Ashdown | "The Assyrian Rejuvenator" | Romney Pringle |
| L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace | "Madame Sara" | Eric Vandeleur |
| Clifford Ashdown | "The Submarine Boat" | Romney Pringle |
| William Le Queux | "The Secret of the Fox Hunter" | Duckworth Drew |
| Baroness Orczy | "The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway" | The Old Man in the Corner |
| R. Austin Freeman | "The Moabite Cipher" | Dr. John Thorndyke |
| Baroness Orczy | "The Woman in the Big Hat" | Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk |
| William Hope Hodgson | "The Horse of the Invisible" | Carnacki |
| Ernest Bramah | "The Game Played in the Dark" | Max Carrados |
More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
[edit]This volume was published in the United States under the title Cosmopolitan Crimes: Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
| Author | Story | Lead character |
|---|---|---|
| Grant Allen | "The Episode of the Mexican Seer" | Colonel Clay |
| Grant Allen | "The Episode of the Diamond Links" | Colonel Clay |
| George Griffith | "Five Hundred Carats" | Inspector Lipinzki |
| Arnold Bennett | "A Bracelet at Bruges" | Cecil Thorold |
| Robert Barr | "The Absent-Minded Coterie" | Eugène Valmont |
| Jacques Futrelle | "The Problem of Cell 13" | Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen |
| Maurice Leblanc | "Arsène Lupin in Prison" | Arsène Lupin |
| Jacques Futrelle | "The Superfluous Finger" | Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen |
| Baron Palle Rosenkrantz | "A Sensible Course of Action" | Lieutenant Holst |
| Balduin Groller | "Anonymous Letters" | Dagobert Trostler |
| Maurice Leblanc | "The Red Silk Scarf" | Arsène Lupin |
| E. Phillips Oppenheim | "The Secret of the Magnifique" | John Laxworthy |
| H. Hesketh Prichard | "The Murder at the Duck Club" | November Joe |
Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Crooked Counties (1973)
[edit]| Author | Story | Lead character |
|---|---|---|
| C.L. Pirkis | "The Redhill Sisterhood" | Loveday Brooke |
| Arthur Morrison | "The Loss of Sammy Throckett" | Martin Hewitt |
| Dick Donovan | "The Problem of Dead Wood Hall" | Dick Donovan |
| Arthur Morrison | "The Case of Janissary" | Horace Dorrington |
| M. McDonnell Bodkin | "Murder by Proxy" | Paul Beck |
| Fergus Hume | "The Amber Beads" | Hagar Stanley |
| M. McDonnell Bodkin | "How He Cut His Stick" | Dora Myrl |
| L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax | "A Race with the Sun" | Paul Gilchrist |
| J. S. Fletcher | "The Contents of the Coffin" | Archer Dawe |
| Jacques Futrelle | "The Mystery of Room 666" | Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen |
| Richard Marsh | "The Man Who Cut Off My Hair" | Judith Lee |
| Victor Whitechurch | "The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box" | Thorpe Hazell |
| Ernest Bramah | "The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage" | Max Carrados |
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1976)
[edit]| Author | Story | Lead character |
|---|---|---|
| Hugh C. Weir | "Cinderella's Slipper" | Madelyn Mack |
| Rodrigues Ottolengui | "The Nameless Man" | Mr. Barnes and Robert Leroy Mitchel |
| Rodrigues Ottolengui | "The Montezuma Emerald" | Mr. Barnes and Robert Leroy Mitchel |
| Josiah Flynt and Alfred Hodder | "Found Guilty" | |
| Jacques Futrelle | "The Scarlet Thread" | Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen |
| William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer | "The Man Higher Up" | Luther Trant |
| William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer | "The Axton Letters" | Luther Trant |
| Samuel Hopkins Adams | "The Man Who Spoke Latin" | Average Jones |
| Francis Lynde | "The Cloudbursters" | Scientific Sprague |
| Charles Felton Pidgin and J. M. Taylor | "The Affair of Lamson's Cook" | Quincy Adams Sawyer |
| Arthur B. Reeve | "The Campaign Grafter" | Craig Kennedy |
| Frederick Irving Anderson | "The Infallible Godahl" | Oliver Armiston |
| Richard Harding Davis | "The Frame-Up" | Wharton |
Bibliography
[edit]- Greene, Hugh; editor. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1970; ISBN 0-394-41330-X
- Greene, Hugh; editor. Cosmopolitan Crimes: Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1971; ISBN 0-394-47340-X
- Greene, Hugh; editor. Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1973; ISBN 0-394-48827-X
- Greene, Hugh; editor. The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1976; ISBN 0-394-40921-3