Arthur Morrison: 80 books

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was 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. This is one of those stories

Arthur Morrison was a British writer best known for novels about London’s East End, as well as detective fiction works that featured the character Martin Hewitt.

Horace Dorrington a un principe: quand une affaire peut lui rapporter gros sans qu'il ait besoin de commettre un crime ou un délit, il s'en abstient scrupuleusement. Le reste du temps, c'est une autre histoire... Escroquerie, chantage, assassinat: pour accélérer son ascension sociale,...

Comment a-t-on pu faire disparaître des plans précieux d'un bureau où personne n’est entré ni sorti? Qui a kidnappé un coureur à pied donné gagnant sans laisser la moindre trace? Et pourra-t-on le retrouver avant la course? Un suicide, selon toute apparence--après tout, la...

Un enfant qui disparaît, c'est toujours un drame. Mais voilà qu'il revient, après avoir fait malgré lui oeuvre de charité... Les affaires d'adultère? Jamais! Sauf que, loin de courir le guilledou, le mari volage se livre à une étrange alchimie... "Ce n'est pas la variole...

On l'a retrouvé pendu, sa main droite tranchée. C'est assurément un meurtre, car comment penser à un suicide? Deux caisses d'or ont disparu à l'issue d'un naufrage: une plongée en eaux troubles pour notre héros. "Je le nie!" C'est tout ce que sait dire cet homme retrouvé...

Entre aventuriers, on se rend de menus services. Ainsi, quand Mr. Crook repart des Indes, il accepte volontiers de convoyer en Angleterre la cargaison que lui confie Mr. Hahn : douze magnums de tokay dont il espère tirer un joli bénéfice. Mais à bord du steamer,...

Quel lien peut-il y avoir entre un diamantaire floué, un reclus féru d'occultisme, des obligations volées et des plans ultra-secrets disparus comme par enchantement? Les cadavres s'accumulent. Leur point commun: un triangle rouge marquant leur front. Martin Hewitt va devoir déployer...

A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a „cadger of suppers”, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a...

Morrison’s most popular books are probably his detective stories, featuring Martin Hewitt, a methodical investigator, who uses his ability to be „thoroughly at home among any and every class of people” to invite confidences in gathering evidence. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to...

A treasure trove of mysteries drawn from the case files of the world’s cleverest private investigators.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features many of the consulting detective’s best-known cases. “A Scandal in Bohemia” finds Holmes matching wits with—and being outfoxed by—a beautiful...

English writer Morrison chronicles the exploits of Horace Dorrington, a raconteur and scoundrel who hails from a very different social strata than the typical Victorian detective. Mr. Dorrington himself is a marvelous creation, charming and with no moral scruples whatsoever, clever, and entirely devoted...

This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters...

Without sentiment, glorification, or preaching, but with complete detachment, Morrison describes the lives of charwomen, pimps, and workers drifting down to destruction; their shabby attempts to retain respectability; and the perpetual danger of slipping into a life of crime for those living in the mean streets of London's East End.