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Arsène Lupin, the "Gentleman Burglar" of France, appeared from
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critic, Leblanc brought to the character "the skill of Sherlock Holmes, the
resourcefulness of Raffles, the refinement of a casuist, the epigrammatic
nimbleness of La Rouchefoucauld and the gallantry of Du Guesclin."
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these meetings are chronicled here, "The Fair Lady" and "The Jewish
Lamp," in which Lupin outrageously tweaks the nose of his English conundrum, but
with respect and savoire faire!
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Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) was born and raised in London. As a
young man he was clerk for the Charity Trust of the East End of London and then
worked as a journalist. In later life he had a successful career as an art
dealer. He is best remembered in the mystery field for his casebook stories (à
la Conan Doyle) of the detective "Martin Hewitt" (1896). Outside the genre he is
known for his realistic short stories depicting the slums of London, Tales of
the Mean Streets (1895). Morrison grew up in the slums and chronicled his
experiences in the novel, A Child of the Jago (1896).
Less well-known than his Martin Hewitt tales, but far more
ground-breaking, was Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box, in which he
chronicles the exploits of Horace Dorrington, a raconteur and scoundrel who
hails from a very different social strata than the typical Victorian detective.
In this collection of short stories, Dorrington is introduced in a recounting of
his arrest for the attempted murder of one of his clients. Dorrington, an
anti-hero before his time, is not the upholder of law and order that normally
graced the pages of The Strand. Dorrington is as likely to pre-empt a
criminal plot as he is to solve it. He is more a precursor of Donald Westlake’s
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figure, however "hard boiled." Many Victorian mystery buffs just weren’t ready
for this type of iconoclastic realism in their detective fiction.
In creating this unconventional protagonist, Morrison took a
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first appeared—and fewer still genre detectives have relished their lack of
scruples with the angst-free abandon exhibited by the disreputable Horace
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Grant Allen (1848–1899) was one of the most prolific writers of
the Victorian era. Born in Ontario, he lived in both the U.S. and France. Later,
following graduation from Oxford, Allen served a stint at an ill-fated college
in Jamaica, after which he returned to England. Allen was close friends with and
sometime collaborator of A. Conan Doyle (Hilda Wade). His free-thinking
novel, The Woman Who Did, notoriously featured a protagonist who refused
to marry her lover because of her belief in the unfairness of marriage law (the
novel was dedicated to Allen’s wife). His novels Miss Cayley’s Adventures
and the aforementioned Hilda Wade feature two of the earliest female
detectives.
Grant’s most enduring character, however, is "Colonel Clay," the
gentleman rogue and thief who steals repeatedly from the corrupt "African
millionaire," a victim who is repeatedly led astray by the clever Colonel while
fueled by his own greed. A delightful early entry in the British "rogue" gallery
of gentlemen crooks, appearing two years before the introduction of the much
more famous character, "Raffles," the creation of E. W. Hornung.
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