Books By Arthur Morrison, E. F. Bleiler, Sidney Paget, D. Murray Smith - Author

English author and journalist Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) is best known for his novels Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago. Like many of his other stories, their setting is London's East End and their theme is the struggle of life amid urban blight. His fictional detective Martin Hewitt has been characterized as a realistic lower-class version of Sherlock Holmes.