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The Dorrington Deed-Box
Arthur Morrison
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He handed me the receipt, and then took me to his partner's room and introduced me. Mr. Hicks was a small, wrinkled man, older than Dorrington, I should think, by fifteen or twenty years, and with all the aspect and manner of a quiet old professional man.
Dorrington left the room, and presently returned with his hat in his hand. "Yes," he said, "there's a charming dark gentleman with a head like a mop, and rings in his ears, skulking about at the next corner. I. . . Read More
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A twist on the usual Victorian detective story. Horace Dorrington is a chancer - a clever con man who does indeed work as a private investigator but always looks out for his own interests, even when this involves a little light blackmail, fisticuffs, or manslaughter.
The lethal detective.
Arthur Morrison was a popular writer and a contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle. While Doyle stuck with his famous detective Sherlock Holmes, Morrison created two detectives and they were as different as night and day. Martin Hewitt is kind-hearted, conscientious, and ethical. Hor
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. However there were many other detective stories being written at that time.
He is an excellent detective and a bad man. As one of the cases states - often enabled him to profit himself far beyond the extent to which his clients intended. He has no problem taking advant
Interesting detective stories, each one with an unusual ending. Similar to Sherlock Holmes, only this detective solves crimes to blackmail the perpetrators for his personal gain.
like a 3.7 rounded up
While this book continues the detective-fiction craze of the late Victorian period, Horace Dorrington, of the firm Dorrington and Hicks, is no run-of-the-mill private enquiry agent. Au contraire -- the back-cover blurb refers to him as a "cheerfully unrepentant sociopath," as w
Detective stories- of a sort: Mr Dorrington is charming, clever, and entirely devoted to achieving as great a profit for himself as possible- if this involves doing some honest detection, that is fine- if it involved extorting the criminal instead of turning him over to the police, no problem, if it
Arthur Morrison is best-known to crime fans today for the Martin Hewitt stories which were among the most successful of the stories that followed in the wake of the enormous success of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
Morrison’s method with the Martin Hewitt stories was simple. He created a det