Arthur Morrison

Arthur Morrison
Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) was an English writer best known for his realistic portrayal of the lives of the working class in London's East End. His most famous works include "A Child of the Jago" and "Tales of Mean Streets," which depict poverty and crime with stark, vivid detail. Morrison was also known for his detective fiction, particularly the Martin Hewitt series, which served as a counterpoint to the more famous Sherlock Holmes stories. Beyond fiction, Morrison was an art collector and expert on Japanese art, contributing to its appreciation in the West.

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I have already recorded many of the adventures of my friend Martin Hewitt, but among them there have been more of a certain few which were discovered to be related together in a very extraordinary manner; and it is to these that I am now at liberty to address myself. There may have been others—cases which gave no indication of their connection with these; some of them indeed I may have told without a... more...

I. THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIES Those who retain any memory of the great law cases of fifteen or twenty years back will remember, at least, the title of that extraordinary will case, "Bartley v. Bartley and others," which occupied the Probate Court for some weeks on end, and caused an amount of public interest rarely accorded to any but the cases considered in the other division of the same... more...

STEPHEN'S TALE My grandfather was a publican—and a sinner, as you will see. His public-house was the Hole in the Wall, on the river's edge at Wapping; and his sins—all of them that I know of—are recorded in these pages. He was a widower of some small substance, and the Hole in the Wall was not the sum of his resources, for he owned a little wharf on the river Lea. I called him... more...