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22) The Sherlockian
Author
Language
English
Description
When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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" As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
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Description
"This reader's companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world's most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one's own death, readers will learn how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases - plus an arsenal of modern techniques available to today's armchair sleuths. Along the way, readers will discover a host of trivia about the master detective...
26) Other worlds
Author
Language
English
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Description
The most famous crime specialists, including Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Dr. Nandor Fodor, meet at an exclusive club to try to solve two cases of ghostly terror involving a haunted family in the backwoods of Tennessee and a newly married widow, plagued by a demon in a small Connecticut town.
Author
Publisher
Macmillian
Pub. Date
1933.
Language
English
Description
An indispensable biography of the world's most famous detective from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Vincent Starrett
In a boarding house at 221B Baker Street, a genius is at work. With the help of his tireless companion, Dr. Watson, the peerless Sherlock Holmes solves one impossible mystery after the next. Many of his adventures, such as "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Red-Headed League," are world famous, while others, including...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes attempts to retrieve a photograph being used to blackmail the King of Bohemia and finds something even more valuable. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[i.e. 2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes investigates what appears to be a murder committed during a burglary. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Before there was Sherlock Holmes, there was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle justly earned his place in literary history with his series of stories and novels chronicling the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In David Pirie's homage to the great author, Doyle's life has far more than a passing resemblance to that of the great detective. Still, what is less known is that Holmes was actually based on a friend of Doyle's, Dr. Joseph Bell. In...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Eliminate the impossible, Sherlock Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But, as Pierre Bayard finds in this dazzling reinvestigation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, sometimes the master missed his mark. Using the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key, Bayard unravels the case, leading the reader to the astonishing conclusion that Holmes-and, in fact, Arthur Conan Doyle-got things all wrong: The killer is not at all who...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and ... campaigning for justice in all. Stanford ... makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Arsene Lupin is involved in robberies and a scam. The three victims decide to team up and call Herlock Sholmès to travel from London and put things right. Sholmès discovers three secrets that are damaging to Lupin. But the tables turn and Lupin escapes from Sholmès and sends him on a ship back to England"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category, Mystery Writers of America" "Finalist for the 2012 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington" "One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates" Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and longtime book columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of four collections of essays,...
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