The glory of the great Sherlock Holmes has not faded in more than a hundred years. Of all the brilliant literary sleuths of the Victorian era, however, we know only one. Meanwhile, he had many worthy rivals. Popular English and American magazines were literally awash with fascinating detective stories that became fashionable at the turn of the century. There is not a single Holmes story in this anthology. Perhaps the reader will not find a single familiar name in it at all. This book presents the best detective stories of contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle, previously unknown to the Russian public. The collection is illustrated with drawings from magazines of the 19th and early 20th centuries and is equipped with a glossary in pictures.