Bleak house Quote by Sarah Weinman
“Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.”
![“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]” quote by Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fb/rex-stout-2846_characters_a-dickens-character-to-me-is-a-theatrica_1292870.jpg)
![“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.” quote by Will Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d65/will-thomas-47749_quote_everyone-who-writes-in-the-sub-genre-of_25966.jpg)
![“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English detective fiction has relied less on the beauty of the mathematical problem and much more on the intangible human element. [...] In The Moonstone the mystery is…” quote by T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7b/t-s-eliot-2-1761_detection_the-detective-story-as-created-by-poe-is_1679578.jpg)
