SHERLOCK HOLMES FROM BADEN-BADEN OR NON-ENGLISH DETECTIVES WITH ANGLO-SAXON NAMES IN DETECTIVE NOVELS FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is an attempt to identify the nationalities of authors of detective stories published in Bulgaria during the first half of the 20th century. The protagonists of the novels were established as a trade mark in Bulgarian private book publishing while even the names of their authors remain in the background. Due to this reason nowadays they have not been studied thoroughly by the Bulgarian retrospective bibliography. The lack of relevant information about the protagonists and the establishment of the culture of English-speaking countries in Bulgarian publishing has resulted in categorizing these novels mainly as ones written by American authors.