"Geniuses of Investigation. An Essay in Biographical Tones" is an exciting, true-to-form detective-like exploration by historian Daniel Kluger of the prototypes behind the most famous literary detectives. A sensational book about detectives who became the prototypes for the most popular book sleuths. Who was Sherlock Holmes really? Who is Pinkerton? Was the famous Vidoc a mythical character or a real person? The book will take you to 18th-century England, to 19th-century America, and to early 20th-century Russia, when the Bolsheviks tried to create the first all-Russian honest detective bureau. © Storyside