Arthur Morrison

THE STRAND MAGAZINE. Vol. xxxvii. JANUARY, 1909- No. 217 By HALL CAINE. [The Arabs have a tradition that in "the time of the end" a Redeemer will come to unite the faiths of the world into one faith, and the peoples of the world into one people. This Redeemer is sometimes known as the Mahdi,...

Introduction And Edgar Allan Poe begat the Chevalier Dupin, and Dupin begat Lecoq, and Lecoq begat Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes begat - oh, dozens and dozens of detectives, and the Golden Age of the Detective Story was upon us. I'm probably in trouble already. The Golden Age is...