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Hedley, Marshall. Marshall Hedley was created by F.A. Fawkes and appeared in fifteen stories which were collected in Adventures of a Chemist (1930).

In the small Midland town of Chamborough is a chemist’s shop, run by Spencer White. He is a good person, sensitive, sympathetic, but a trifle over-eager to investigate mysteries and solve crimes. Fortunately, White is friends with Marshall Hedley, a gentleman of independent means whose hobby is amateur detection. Hedley longs to be as famous as Sherlock Holmes, and believes he has Holmes’ ability to “recognise facts which, though beneath the surface, are as simple when you do perceive them, as the fact that two and two make four.” Though friends, Hedley and White have a rivalry when it comes to solving crimes, and compete to discover the solution to mysteries. They are usually successful, in cases varying from murder to industrial espionage to Soviet spies.

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