Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (Editor); 2015. Hardcover.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories increased the public's interest in detective fiction and led many authors into the same genre in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes features forty detective short stories from Great Britain, the United States, and continental Europe which either inspired, or were inspired by Doyle's work. The volume includes short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, and Craig Kennedy, along with Sherlockian satires and homages by Bret Harte, O. Henry, and others. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes also features an introduction by distinguished Sherlockian scholar Leslie B. Klinger.