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]
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.
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]
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]
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
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