Martin Hewitt, investigator Book

This is a historically interesting collection of late Victorian short stories featuring a Sherlock Holmes style sleuth with Holmes's powers of observation and none of his charisma. In fact, the best way to characterize Martin Hewitt's personality is by his not having one. The greatest problem with these stories however is that in each the reader is presented with a connundrum which Hewitt then solves by discovering something off stage and returning to tell the reader about what he discovered and how it solved the crime. In other words, the reader has zero chance of solving any of these mysteries. If you like detective stories and would like a feel for that they were like 20 -30 years after Wilkie Collins invented the genre, download this free (on Amazon) book and read a couple of the stories. No need to finish it, however.