THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIES.
Those who retain any memory of the great law cases
of fifteen or twenty years back will remember, at
least, the title of that extraordinary will case,
“Bartley v.&nbs...
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Weary of the Sherlock Homes stories and anxious to get on with what he considered his more important writing, Arthur Conan Doyle killed his famous Baker Street detective in December 1893. Readers prot...
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During the 1890s the last vestiges of Victorianism were giving way grudgingly to a new morality and a more experimental, daring cultural milieu. The literary battles over what constituted realism and ...
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Arthur Morrison is best known for his detective stories and his tales of the mean streets of the crowded and desperate slums of the East End of London. His work in both genres was highly regarded; yet...
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