Martin Hewitt, a plump, affable former solicitor’s clerk, keeps an office off the Strand, and his journalist neighbour Brett records his cases. They range from jewel thefts at a country house, where no one could have entered the room, to stolen naval plans, each solved by close observation and plain common sense.
The best of the 1890s rivals of Sherlock Holmes, first published in The Strand Magazine. Download the free EPUB.