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Hilda Wade is nonetheless a notable departure from the Holmes stories in its treatment of detection as a matter of interpretation of character as much as the analysis of material clues. Hilda Wade, the sleuth, is a nurse endowed with a particularly heightened capacity for female intuition. She is aided in her investigations by Dr Hubert Cumberledge, who is both her narrating Watson and eventual lover – a radical twist on the sidekick motif and a departure from the homosocial ethos of the Holmes stories.
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One last matter which agitated [Allen] was meeting a professional obligation. The Strand had been running his serial Hilda Wade, and the final two episodes were yet to be produced. Doyle, one of the kindest of men, either wrote them both or finished them off.
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In 1899, for instance, "Hilda Wade" tries to replace the study of clues with that of personality and the investigation of the past with the prediction of the future. Very courageous idea — but a little weird.
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Grant Allen also wrote about another female investigator. When he died in 1899, his uncompleted novel, Hilda Wade, was finished by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and published posthumously. Sir Arthur did not do his late friend a favour; despite the efforts of booksellers and other bibliographers of the genre, this collection of short stories is not even barely criminous and is a lackluster example of the tales of romantic intrigue typical of the period. The only thing that has kept the book from sinking into deserved obscurity is the fame and name of Allen's friend and neighbor.