WHEN this article was printed in 1929, it was largely thanks to Philo Vance that detective fiction was enjoying a resurgence of public interest in the wake of Sherlock's final disappearance in 1927. Advice for would-be inheritors of the Holmes canon was plentiful, such as the following aimed at authors, denoting "a marked leaning toward action" in current tecfic magazines:
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"Pitfalls of the Mystery Story," August Lenniger, The Editor, October 26, 1929. Online at Google Books (HERE).
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