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Chronicles of Martin Hewitt Paperback – 22 August 2019

by Arthur Morrison (Author)

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I had been working double tides for a month: at night on my morning paper, as usual; and in the morning on an evening paper as locum tenens for another man who was taking a holiday. This was an exhausting plan of work, although it only actually involved some six hours' attendance a day, or less, at the two offices. I turned up at the headquarters of my own paper at ten in the evening, and by the time I had seen the editor, selected a subject, written my leader, corrected the slips, chatted, smoked, and so on, and cleared off, it was very usually one o'clock. This meant bed at two, or even three, after supper at the club.This was all very well at ordinary periods, when any time in the morning would do for rising, but when I had to be up again soon after seven, and round at the evening paper office by eight, I naturally felt a little worn and disgusted with things by midday, after a sharp couple of hours' leaderette scribbling and paragraphing, with attendant sundries.But the strain was over, and on the first day of comparative comfort I indulged in a midday breakfast and the first undisgusted glance at a morning paper for a month. I felt rather interested in an inquest, begun the day before, on the body of a man whom I had known very slightly before I took to living in chambers.His name was Gavin Kingscote, and he was an artist of a casual and desultory sort, having, I believe, some small private means of his own. As a matter of fact, he had boarded in the same house in which I had lodged myself for a while, but as I was at the time a late homer and a fairly early riser, taking no regular board in the house, we never became much acquainted. He had since, I understood, made some judicious Stock Exchange speculations, and had set up house in Finchley.

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Publisher : Independently published (22 August 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 149 pages
ISBN-10 : 1687867488
ISBN-13 : 978-1687867483
Dimensions : 15.24 x 0.86 x 22.86 cm

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Robert Naggar

Chronicles of Martin Hewitt

Reviewed in France on 16 January 2018

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An enjoyable and charming book offering "Who done it?" stories in a charming "old English" style. One could listen to Martin Hewitt's tales, sitting in an old leather armchair of a "private gentlemen's" bar in a late 19th century London Club.

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Fantasyman

An Excellent Mystery Short Story Collection

Reviewed in the United States on 14 February 2013

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Just finished reading this, liked it very much. The stories in this collection run the gamut from murder and theft to anarchists and disappearances. These stories have stood the test of time very well, published almost a century ago, they still have the ability to hold the reader's interest.

Arthur Morrison's detective, Marin Hewitt, does seem to have a touch of Sherlock Holmes in him; he is very observant, keeps his solutions to the mystery to himself until he has proved his theory, and solves the mysteries he tackles with a certain flair. On the other hand, Martin Hewitt doesn't have the obsessive idiosyncrasies of Sherlock Holmes; he is not addicted to cocaine, has no obsession with music, and doesn't go into a blue funk when there is no intriguing mystery to challenge his intellect. Quite the contrary, Mr. Hewitt maintains a perfectly respectable business in private investigations, even to the extent of having an office and a clerk. Martin Hewitt seems to be a perfectly normal person with an abnormally keen insight into investigations. Of the two, Holmes would certainly make the far more interesting character study, yet, Hewitt seems somehow to be more real and less of an artifact of the imagination, if it is possible to say such a thing about a fictional character.

For free on Kindle, it would be a crime not to nab this collection.

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LittleMac

Another fun, golden oldie

Reviewed in the United States on 12 July 2012

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Early 20th century pulp detective fiction--fun to read. I won't attempt to review Mr Morrison's writing skill but I will caution that the Martin Hewitt story collections listed on Amazon (and elsewhere) show overlap of content and some cases of multiple titles for the same collection. Before selecting a collection, be sure to look at the table of contents to see whether you might already have the stories in another collection.

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These are detective stories. Interesting and thoroughly explained, ...

Reviewed in the United States on 4 May 2016

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These are detective stories. Interesting and thoroughly explained, though I wouldn't call them riveting.

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