Complete Mystery Detective of Arthur Morrison (Illustrated‪)‬

An English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt.


In 1894 Morrison published his first detective story featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. In November he published his short story collection Tales of Mean Streets, dedicating the work to Henley. The collection was reviewed in 1896 in America by Jacob Riis. Morrison later said that the work was publicly banned. Reviewers of the collection objected to his story Lizerunt, causing Morrison to write a response in 1895. Later in 1894 he published Martin Hewitt, Investigator. In 1895 he was invited by writer and clergyman Reverend A. O. M. Jay to visit the Old Nichol Street Rookery. Morrison continued to develop his interest in Japanese art, which he had been introduced to by a friend in 1890. Morrison began writing his novel A Child of the Jago in early 1896. The novel was published in November by Henley. It described in graphic detail living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life (it was a barely fictionalised account of life in the Old Nichol Street Rookery). Morrison also published The Adventures of Martin Hewitt in 1896. A second edition of A Child of the Jago came out in 1897.

In 1899 Morrison published To London Town as the final installment of a trilogy including Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago. His work Cunning Murrell was published in 1900, followed by The Hole in the Wall in 1902. He continued to publish a wide variety of works throughout the 1900s.

Contents

Martin Hewitt, Investigator

The Red Triangle

Chronicles of Martin Hewitt -

- The Ivy Cottage Mystery

- The Nicobar Bullion Case

- The Holford Will Case

- The Case of the Missing Hand

- The Case of Laker, Absconded

- The Case of the Lost Foreigner    

Tales of Mean Streets

A Child of the Jago

The Hole in the Wall

That Brute Simmons

The Narrative of Mr. James Rigby

The Affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre, Co.,

The Case Of Janissary

The Flitterbat Lancers

The Case Of The Ward Lane Tabernacle