Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second of hisSherlock Holmesbooks in order isThe Sign of Four. This starts when a young woman asks Holmes and Watson to help her find her missing father. This leads Holmes and Watson on a treasure hunt with a mysterious map and little in the way of clues. This...
relation of Sherlock Holmes to Doyle's own life, reviews the history of the stories' publication and reception, and provides a brief overview of the contemporary critical essays. Additional sources of enrichment and direction for further study are provided by the four appendices: a chronology of ...
It is somewhat similar to the out-of-print and often difficult to findSherlock Holmes: The PublishedApocryphaby Jack Tracy. Both books include the “almost Sherlock Holmes” stories and plays that don’t fit in the Canon, but are certainly in the neighborhood.I wrote about that one, here. ...
Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget (1904) Name : Sherlock Holmes Birth date : 1854. He was described as a sixty-years man in 1914. (LAST, 197) Profession : Consulting Detective. (STUD, 324) Nationality : British. Family His ancestors were country squires. (GREE, 9) His grandmother was ...
New: Elementary, She Read (Vicki Delany); The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora Goss); Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities (James Lovegrove); The Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes: The Pound of the Baskervilles (Sally Morgan) 01/01/19 Added: The Counterfeit Detective...
↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/books/what-makes-sherlock-holmes-the-supersleuth.html ↑ Dakin, D. Martin, A Sherlock Holmes Commentary, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972, ISBN 0-7153-5493-0. ↑ McQueen, Ian, Sherlock Holmes Detected, David &Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974, ISBN...
This article focuses on a fictitious character, Sherlock Homes, with reference to the book "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes," edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger. The book consists of two volumes and it is a collection of 56 short stories. The original edition of this ...
I have to admit that it took me a little bit of time to adjust my mental chronology of HOUN from Baring-Gould’s date of 1888 to sometime between 1901 and its publication in 1903 (I like the idea of Holmes investigating the Ripper murders while Watson is in Dartmoor). However, some ...
whichhad come into vogue during the nineteenth century as a means of decon-structing the Christian Bible. Treating the Holmes stories as a source doc-ument, Knox playfully explores the many inconsistencies among them,attempting to create a chronology of events and a biography of Holmesfrom eviden...
“dark”–Andriacco writes with a light, humor-filled touch and his books are firmly at the cozy end of the spectrum. But just as Holmes admonishes Watson that the bucolic landscapes flashing past the window of their train car can hide the most disturbing scenarios, so Cody’s latest ...