The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Hugh Greene/Thames TV

Quite by accident I caught the first episode of the 1971 -1973 two series Thames TV production on "Talking Pictures TV".

Although a Holmes fan, I had very little idea of the many other detective authors and their detectives in the late 19th and early 20th Century.

Sir Hugh Greene, director of the BBC and brother of author Graham Green, edited the book which inspired the series. I immediately purchased a second hand copy of 

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories by Hugh Greene (Editor) 1971

I am thoroughly enjoying the read and the exploration of the different authors. So I have gathered some of the notes and pictures, with their links, to have them all in the same place.

I hope you enjoy them.

Sir Hugh Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) editor who inspired the series

There were two series (13 fifty-minute episodes each series) The first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. Hugh Greene was Creative Consultant on the series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rivals_of_Sherlock_Holmes_(TV_series)  

Episode list  Series 1 (20 Sep - 9 Dec 1971)

Series 2 (29 Jan - 7 May 1973)

Edition of the book published with the TV series

By Author

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barr_(writer)

Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist.

2. Guy Boothbyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Boothby

Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kiplingwas his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell.^[1]

3. Ernest Bramah  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bramah

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868^[1] – 27 June 1942), whose name was recorded after his birth as Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author.^[2] He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwellacknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.

4. William Arthur Dunkerley (aka John Oxenham) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Dunkerley

William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 – 23 January 1941) was an English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in the US before moving to Ealing, West London, where he served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church from the 1880s. In 1922 he moved to Worthing in Sussex, where he became the town's mayor.

5. Robert Eustace  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eustace

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943), an English doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with other writers, producing a number of works with the author L. T. Meade and others. He is credited as co-author with Dorothy L. Sayers of the novel The Documents in the Case, for which he supplied the main plot idea and supporting medical and scientific details.

6. R. Austin Freeman (aka Clifford Ashdown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Austin_Freeman

Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 – 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.

Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology.

7. Jacques Futrellehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Futrelle

Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. 

8. Adalbert Goldscheider (aka Balduin Groller)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balduin_Groller

Adalbert Goldscheider, (5 September 1848 – 22 March 1916) better known by his pseudonym Balduin Groller, was an Austrian journalist and author as well as the founder of the Austrian Olympic Committee.

9. George Griffith  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Griffith

George Griffith (1857–1906), full name George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine and Pearson's Weekly before being published as novels. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, though he failed to find similar acclaim in the United States, in part due to his utopian socialist views. A journalist, rather than scientist, by background, what his stories lack in scientific rigour and literary grace they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution.

10. William Hope Hodgsonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson

William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction.

11. Fergus Hume  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_Hume

Fergusson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 – 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist.

12. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Cutcliffe_Hyne

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (11 May 1866 – 10 March 1944) was an English^[1] novelist who was also known by the pen name Weatherby Chesney. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis. He is also remembered for his Captain Kettle stories and for The Recipe for Diamonds.

13. William Le Queux  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Le_Queux

William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 - 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.

14. L. T. Meade  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._Meade

L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, County Cork.^[1] She later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879.

15. Arthur Morrison  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Morrison

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 – 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. He left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945.^[1] Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896).

16. E. Phillips Oppenheim  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Phillips_Oppenheim

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.

17. Emma Orczy  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála"Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (/ˈɔːrtsiː/; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from "Madame Guillotine" during the French revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture.

18. Max Pembertonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Pemberton

Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular English novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. ^[3] He was educated at St Albans School, Merchant Taylors' School, and Caius College, Cambridge.^[4] A clubman, journalist and dandy (Lord Northcliffe admired his 'fancy vests'), he frequented both Fleet Street and The Savage Club.

19. John Pitcairn

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13439286.J_J_Pitcairn

Dr. John James Pitcairn (1860-1936) wrote several books/stories in collaboration with R. Austin Freeman under the pseudonym Clifford Ashdown. He was Medical Officer at Holloway Prison and lived in Uckfield East Sussex.

20. Palle Rosenkrantz

https://vintage-crime.livejournal.com/146615.html

Baron Palle Adam Vilhelm Rosenkrantz (1867-1941) was a successful Danish writer who wrote, among other works, detective fiction. In fact there’s a prize for crime fiction in Denmark named after him. It seems that little of his crime fiction has been translated into English although one of his Lieutenant Holst short stories was included in one of Hugh Greene’s Rivals of Sherlock Holmes anthologies (and was adapted for television in the early 1970s Rivals of Sherlock Holmes series). And his crime novel The Magistrate’s Own Case is available in an English translation.