Martin Hewitt, the cheery yet gritty antidote to Sherlock Holmes
- Written by Stephen Knight, Honorary Research Professor, The University of Melbourne
Portrait of Vasily Mathé by Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927). Later used as cover art for a set of Martin Hewitt detective stories. Wikimedia Commons/Russian MuseumIn this series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen.
Arthur Morrison’s detective Martin Hewitt first appeared in The Strand magazine in March...





