![]() ![]() Whoever thought of changing “Frank” to “Sexton” is not known, but I hope he at least got a pat on the back. Oddly, though, this most British of heroes was initially called Frank Blake. ![]() He even lived - surprise, surprise! - on Baker Street in London. Holmes toppled off Reichenbach Falls, and was often even more Sherlock than Sherlock. ![]() Created by Harry Blyth (under the pen name of Hal Meredeth) in 1893-six years after Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print- SEXTON BLAKE on to appear in over 4,000 stories, written told by a couple of hundred different writers, including John Creasey, Michael Moorcock, Gilbert Chester, John Creasey and Berkely Grey, creator of Norman Conquest.īlake was called the “prince of the penny dreadfuls” and “the office boys’ Sherlock Holmes.” He first popped up in The Halfpenny Marvel, shortly after a certain Mr. ![]()
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