Jan 1, 2010

The Red-Headed League | What Do I Read Next?

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" are Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective stories. Poe's Dupin character and the unnamed friend who narrates the stories present parallels to Holmes and Watson.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, is, like Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, concerned with human psychology and the role of science in society.

Oscar Wilde's controversial 1891 novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is often seen as the bible of the late-Victorian aesthetic and...