Cosmopolitan Crimes, Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early detective tales by the contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Hugh Greene (PB, 1975,$1)
"I have limited this collection... to stories published between the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine in 1891 and the outbreak of war in 1914... With the invention of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle changed the character of the short detective story, and the first world war changed the character of the world in which the stories were set."
According to Greene, foreign detective stories were almost always written in either the US, England or France, even if their detective characters can be found traveling in any country. Included here are two rare Danish and Austro-Hungarian stories never before translated into English. Cool!
Look for this in the mystery section, avail. 12/14.
