Author: Jon L. Lellenberg Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0786752483 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News). Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes. Includes new tales by: Sharyn McCrumb Loren D. Estleman Carolyn Wheat Malachi Saxon Jon L. Breen Bill Crider Colin Bruce Lenore Carroll Barry Day Daniel Stashower And brilliantly insightful essays including: Christopher Redmond on illuminating the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet" Editors Lellenberg and Stashower's "A Sherlockian Library" details fifty essential books for the Arthur Conan Doyle fan Philip A. Shreffler's essay explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart"
Author: John Lellenberg Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0786712449 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy--in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers--including Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Daniel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman-- celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes in this paperback version. In addition, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet," while in "A Sherlockian Library" editors Lellenberg and Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart." This is truly a treasury of never-before-published Sherlockian tales that should not be missed.
Author: L. A. Fields Publisher: Lethe Press ISBN: 1590213688 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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In 1919, after Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have retired frm sleuthing, Watson's never-named second wife invites Holmes to dinner, and the secret history of the relationship between the two men unfolds.
Author: Mindy Starns Clark Publisher: Harvest House Publishers ISBN: 0736933026 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Mindy Starns Clark's first two books in the Smart Chick Mystery series—The Trouble with Tulip and Blind Dates Can Be Murder—are followed with more love and adventure in this final, suspense-filled book. When someone tries to push Jo Tulip in front of a New York train, her ex-fiance, Bradford, suffers an injury while saving her—and the unintentional sleuth is thrown onto the tracks of a very personal mystery. Jo's boyfriend, Danny Watkins, is away in Paris, so she begins a solo investigation of her near-murder. What secret was Bradford about to share before he took the fall? And when Jo uncovers clues tied to Europe, can she and Danny work together in time to save her life?
Author: Margaret Park Bridges Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1780920776 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
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The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light he was actually a woman! The master or rather, mistress of disguise finally puts pen to paper to reveal this decades-long deception and, in so doing, discovers another fact she kept secret even from herself. The complex mind of the brilliant consulting detective is finally opened to the public, in the chronicle of a new case involving Dr. Watson and Constance Moriarty, the beguiling daughter of Holmes infamous nemesis.
Author: Peter Matthiessen Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0679734058 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 387
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Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.
Author: Victor Daniel D Victor Publisher: Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati ISBN: 9781787055735 Category : Languages : en Pages : 216
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A young inventor--the man whose name appears in the title of Dr. Watson's narrative, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"--lies dead on the floor of an old house, two bullet holes in his back. To solve the gruesome murder, Sherlock Holmes enlists the aid of William Gillette, the celebrated American actor renown for his portrayal of the famous detective, and Arthur Conan Doyle, conveniently familiar with the world of spiritualism that serves as backdrop to the brutal crime. In a plot replete with foreign spies, young lovers, eerie séances, and an array of the dead inventor's strange mechanical devices, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson press on to discover the identity of Bruce-Partington's cold-blooded killer.
Author: Magda Jozsa Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 368
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This the second edition of The Private Diaries of Dr. Watson fourteen new cases that Watson considered either too personal to Holmes or himself or to risque. We see an unexpected of Sherlock and his brother Mycroft in The Illegitimate Daughter when they revisit the Holmes ancestral home and meet the elusive unpleasant third brother.Holmes is at his professional best when hunting for a violent axe murderer in The Seaside horror, or solving the murder of a gardener at his Aunt's private girl's school in Death Amidst the Orchids. He shows of his quirky humour and brilliance in new added story, The Dentist, and is almost stumped when tackling a serial killer in The Full Moon Killer. He proves to be Watson's staunchest ally when Watson is arrested for murder in The Trial of Dr. Watson.That old favourite, Colonel Warbuton's Madness is finally mentioned in detail, and in the remaining cases we gain greater insight into both Holmes and Watson's characters, their strengths, their foibles, their loyalties, and their attitudes to fortune and the unfortunate.A must read for all lovers of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
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