The American Conan Doyle
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
"The American Conan Doyle" is a nickname given by the press, in reviews or ads, to the following American writers : Rodrigues Ottolengui (in 1895), Charles Ross Jackson (1904), Lawrence L. Lynch (1906), Jacques Futrelle (1911), Arthur B. Reeve (1919), Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1922) and Erle Stanley Gardner (1959).
Like Conan Doyle, those crime/mystery writers used a detective as main character.
See each author's page to see their detailed bibliography :
List of "American Conan Doyles"
| First mention as "American Conan Doyle" |
Author | Detective(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1895 | Rodrigues Ottolengui | Jack Barnes & Robert Leroy Mitchel |
| 1904 | Charles Ross Jackson | Quintus Oakes |
| 1906 | Lawrence L. Lynch | Francis Ferrars, Lionel Payne |
| 1911 | Jacques Futrelle | Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen |
| 1919 | Arthur B. Reeve | Craig Kennedy, Clare Kendall, Guy Garrick |
| 1922 | Natalie Sumner Lincoln | Inspector Mitchell, Detective Ferguson |
| 1959 | Erle Stanley Gardner | Ken Corning, Perry Mason |
