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As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages - of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain - the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other, but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required intelligence and clear-sightedness as characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.

Garnet Run Volume 2/The Lights On Knockbridge Lane/The Rivals Of Casper Road has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing 16 tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.

Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña "Clarín" nació el 25 de abril de 1852 en Zamora, donde se había trasladado su familia desde Oviedo, al ser nombrado su padre gobernador de la ciudad.

When an aged watchmaker pits his two protégés against each other, the result is magnificent imperfection. The Rival Mechanicians has been lauded as one of the finest science fiction tales from the first half of the nineteenth century. The Western Literary Messenger declared it to be “above praise” when it was first published in 1847.

Chamando sempre a atenção do leitor para o que se vai narrando, Valentim Magalhães traz, no conto "Vaporosa", um retrato do dia a dia de um pobre poeta em seu amor platônico por uma mulher encantadora e delicada. "Uma rival", por sua vez, surpreende o leitor, que vai sendo levando a crer, à medida que avança o enredo, que encontrará uma cena de ciúme de uma mulher em relação ao marido. Não.