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When Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his meal-ticket, Sherlock Holmes in December of 1893, several thousand people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand Magazine which left a gaping hole that the readers and the magazine desperately wanted to be filled. The story vacuum caused by Holmes' misadventure with Professor Moriarty stayed in effect for ten years, a period of time that gave birth to a number of new fictional detectives, one of which was Martin Hewitt, created by Arthur Morrison in 1894. Hewitt and a group of other crime-solvers had a monopoly on the detective business until Doyle...

Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes. Less well-known is Martin Hewitt, who uses logic and deduction to solve crimes. Arthur Morrison is more down-to-earth, more realistic than the world of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Hewitt is worthy of renewed interest.

I had been working double tides for a month: at night on my morning paper, as usual; and in the morning on an evening paper as locum tenens for another man who was taking a holiday. This was an exhausting plan of work, although it only actually involved some six hours' attendance a day, or less, at the two offices. I turned up at the headquarters of my own paper at ten in the evening, and by the time I had seen the editor, selected a subject, written my leader, corrected the slips, chatted, smoked, and so on, and cleared off, it was very usually one o'clock. This meant bed at two, or even...

Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes. Less well-known is Martin Hewitt, who uses logic and deduction to solve crimes. Arthur Morrison is more down-to-earth, more realistic than the world of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Hewitt is worthy of renewed interest.

Arthur George Morrison was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt.

Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes. Less well-known is Martin Hewitt, who uses logic and deduction to solve crimes. Arthur Morrison is more down-to-earth, more realistic than the world of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Hewitt is worthy of renewed interest.

Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes. Less well-known is Martin Hewitt, who uses logic and deduction to solve crimes. Arthur Morrison is more down-to-earth, more realistic than the world of Sherlock Holmes and Martin Hewitt is worthy of renewed interest.