Sir Arthur Conan Doyle et al; Translated by Jung Tae-won from English to Korean; Viche: 700 pp., 24,000 won
Sherlock Holmes is the most well-known fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the 19th century. The figure has a sharp power of reasoning with his eccentricity and extraordinary brain. Since the detective mystery about Holmes was released and he emerged as a cultural icon, countless homage and parodies to follow his legacy have been generated.
As a result, detective short stories were seriously in vogue from the late 1880s and the early 1890s.
This book introduces the masterful short stories by nine authors including some of Doyle’s unreleased works such as “The Story of the Lost Special” and “The Story of the Man With the Watches.”
The unknown stories by Arnold Bennett, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Bret Harte, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Clifford Ashdown are told along with 70 illustrations.
The fictional figures in the stories have something in common in that they have unique personalities and extraordinary abilities while being involved in weird incidents. Most of the stories were printed in popular magazines at that time, which played a crucial role in
developing the burgeoning genre.
— CHUNG AH-YOUNG