About the author
Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He has written several Pocket Essential guides published by Oldcastle Books including Short History of Polar Exploration, Roget, Freud and Robin Hood. He is the editor of four previous anthologies: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and The Rivals of Dracula, collections of Victorian short stories which were followed by Supernatural Sherlocks and More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His debut crime novel, Carver’s Quest, set in nineteenth-century London, was published by Atlantic Books. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.
Also by Nick Rennison
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Peter Mark Roget – The Man Who Became a Book
Robin Hood – Myth, History & Culture
A Short History of Polar Exploration
Bohemian London
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Rivals of Dracula
Supernatural Sherlocks
More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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First published in 2020
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