Arthur Morrison — Martin Hewitt, Investigator, & The Red Triangle

by Arthur Morrison

Overview

This edition includes two complete books:
Martin Hewitt, Investigator
The Red Triangle

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012900340
Publisher:	Omnibus Select
Publication date:	06/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	365 KB

About the Author

"Arthur George Morrison (1863 - 1945) was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories.

Morrison was born in Poplar, in the East End of London, on 1 November 1863. Little is known about his childhood and education, though he was probably educated in the East End. By 1886 he was working as a clerk at the People's Palace, in Mile End. In 1890 he left this job and joined the editorial staff of the Globe newspaper. The following year he published a story entitled A Street which was subsequently published in book form in Tales of Mean Streets. The volume was a critical success, but a number of reviewers objected to the violence portrayed in one story, Lizerunt.

Around this time Morrison was also producing detective short stories which emulated those of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Morrison's Martin Hewitt was an imitation of Sherlock Holmes, but inverted: he was ordinary, short, and good tempered and gladly cooperated with the police. The twist was that he played both ends against the middle, sometimes as crooked as the criminals." --Wikipedia