Not Only Holmes. Detective Fiction of Conan Doyle's Era

This collection presents the finest detective novellas by contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle, previously unknown to Russian readers. The novellas have been selected to represent the detective genre at the turn of the century in all its diversity — the puzzle and the courtroom drama, the scientific detective and the roguish detective, the mysterious theft, the blood-chilling murder, the elaborate swindle.
The fame of the great Sherlock Holmes has not faded in over a hundred years. Yet of all the brilliant literary sleuths of the Victorian era, we know only him. And yet he had no shortage of worthy rivals. Popular English and American magazines were literally flooded with captivating detective stories that had come into fashion at the turn of the century. A magnificent constellation of authors, composing thrilling criminal plots, entertained millions of readers on two continents.

Contents:
1. Grant Allen — The Rajah's Rubies
2. Anna Katharine Green — The Lady Who Walked in Her Sleep
3. Ernest William Hornung — The Owner Is Always Right
4. Arthur Conan Doyle — The Adventure of the Boarding School
5. Jacques Futrelle — The Problem of Cell 13
6. William Hodgson — The Horse of the Invisible
7. Mary Wilkins — The Long Arm