Sherlock, Raffles, Poe, and a Whole Lot More

Here is a quick tour of early 20th century snippets relating to detective fiction culled from magazines of the time; at least most of them are short:

~ "The Confessions of a Dime-Novelist—An Interview" (1902)
~ "Morals of Adventure Stories" (1904)
~ "Dime Novel Makers" (1904)
~ "Arthur Morrison" (1905)
~ "Jacques Futrelle" (1906)
~ "Jules Verne and E. A. Poe" (1907)
~ "Phantom Wires" (1907)

~ Poe and Detective Fiction (1907):

"In the whole range of fiction there is nothing which in itself is of more ephemeral interest than the detective story. The mystery once solved, what is there ever to call you back to it again? And yet, at the hands of Poe, even the detective story has acquired a power of appeal which outlives long familiarity. You may know 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Mystery in the Rue Morgue' like a well-conned lesson, and yet you are lured back to read them once more, through sheer delight in the inimitable art of their construction."

~ "Confederate Cipher Codes" (1907)
~ "Arsene Lupin" (1907)
~ "The Woman in White" (1909)
~ "Poe and Jules Verne" (1909)
~ "Some Recent French Thrillers" (1909; covers only)
~ "The Heart of Poe" (1909)
~ "Edgar Jepson" (1911)
~ "The Deep Purple" (1911, a play; see page 31)
~ "The Bruce Parkington [sic] Plans" (1911) and "Retraction" (1911)
~ "Some Wills in Fiction" (1911)
~ "Migratory Anecdotes" (1911) [re: Conan Doyle]
~ "The Nationality of the Villain" (1912)
~ "The Boule Cabinet" (1912)
~ "Robert Barr and Conan Doyle" (1912)
~ "Doyle's Crowborough Home" (1913)
~ "Arthur B. Reeve" (1913)
~ "E. W. Hornung" (1913)
~ "Some Poe Questions" (1912)
~ "The Poe Mystery" (1913)
~ "Poe and Dickens" (1915)
~ "The Mysterious Card" (1914)
~ "Doyle's First Visit" (1914)
~ "Secret Service" (1914) [Doyle-related]
~ "The Hound in the Movies" (1914)
~ "Sherlock in the Fleet" (1915)
~ "Señor Sherlock Holmes" (1915)
~ "John C. Raffles" (1915)
~ "Father Brown and Others" (1915)
~ "Edgar Allan Poe in England and Scotland" (1916)
~ "The Doom of the Paper Thriller" (1916)

Category: Detective fiction