Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
10 best books like Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (David Stuart Davies): The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Detective and The Woman: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes, Kissing Sherlock Holmes, A Study In Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography, Sherlock Holmes for Dummies, My Dearest Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
One of the cornerstone books in any serious Sherlockian bookshelf, and my copy is personally inscribed by Otto Penzler. It doesn’t get much better than that! This is one of the books in Otto Penzler’s Sherlock Holmes Library, a reissue of eight previously hard to find classics from the earlier age...
The Detective and The Woman: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes
| Author | Amy Thomas |
| ISBN | 1780921438 |
Irene Adler, American opera singer and the one woman who outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, finds herself a widow at thirty-two, wealthy but emotionally broken. At the same time, Sherlock Holmes finds himself unable to return to England after faking his death at Reichenbach Falls and is drawn into an investigation...
My dear Watson, how does one go about kissing a woman?”...
Sherlock Holmes’ question leads to a lesson Watson never expected to teach. And feelings he never thought to explore. A single kiss alters Watson’s world while the announcement of Holmes’ upcoming marriage sets an odd fear...
| Author | Joseph R.G. DeMarco |
| ISBN | 1590210387 |
What other characters from English literature have captivated hearts and minds as thoroughly as Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion John Watson? Many fans imagine the relationship between these men is deep and more than platonic. Edited by noted mystery author Joseph R. G. DeMarco, A Study in...
| Author | Nick Rennison |
| ISBN | 1843542757 |
This is a very "rich" book; full of facts and details trying to create a complete life for Sherlock Holmes. As the author as biographer notes, there are 56 short stories and 4 longer ones as written by Watson (a couple penned by SH) and published through Conan Doyle. That's not much when you consider it spans...
| Author | Steven Doyle |
| ISBN | 0470484446 |
Get a comprehensive guide to this important literary figure and his author.
A classic literary character, Sherlock Holmes has fascinated readers for decades -- from his repartee with Dr. Watson and his unparalleled powers of deduction to the settings, themes, and villains of the stories....
| Author | Rohase Piercy |
| ISBN | 1999890116 |
Was this the real Final Problem?
The 'love that dare not speak its name' was a dangerous thing under the oppressions of Victorian society - especially for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
First published in 1988, 'My Dearest Holmes' redefined the bond between the famous consulting detective...
| Author | Josef Steiff |
| ISBN | 0812697316 |
This entertaining collection of essays deserves to exist because Sherlock Holmes sees things others don’t. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world – and human behavior – in different ways as well. Oh, sure, there have been countless detectives who...
| Author | Jon Lellenberg |
| ISBN | 1594201358 |
More than seventy-five years after his death, the famed creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, remains one of the world's best-loved authors. This candid, never-before-published volume of letters sheds light on Conan Doyle's fascinating career, not only as an author but as a physician,...
Previously unpublished case notes from the pen of Dr. John H. Watson, companion to the great detective Sherlock Holmes, come to light in this new collection from June Thomson. A mysterious veiled lady carries a counterfeit painting into an art dealer's office. A widow with three hands slips out of a...
In an alternative Steampunk universe (c.1885), the plans for Captain Nemo's mysterious Nautilus submarine have been stolen from the British Secret Service. There is only one man who can solve the case, Sherlock Holmes. With his bionic side-kick Doctor Watson, and his brilliant and lethal sister,...
| Author | Michael Kurland |
| ISBN | 0312351569 |
In 1891, Sherlock Holmes, in a death struggle with his archenemy Professor Moriarty, disappeared over Reichenbach Falls and was presumed dead. Until, that is, he reappeared in London in 1894. Holmes remained mostly quiet on the events of those years and for over a century speculation has run riot about...
| Author | J.R. Campbell |
| ISBN | 1894063317 |
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON BAKER STREET!
Between the shadowy realms of fear and the unforgiving glare of science lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare.
CAN...
The Execution of Sherlock Holmes: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective
| Author | Donald Serrell Thomas |
| ISBN | 1933648228 |
Five tales:
1 The Execution of Sherlock Holmes - elude noose when drugged and manacled in dank Newgate cell
2 The Case of the Greek Key - crack German codes
3 The Case of the Peasenhall Murder - prove man innocent of slaying pregnant serving girl
4 The Case of the Phantom Chambermaid - stop...
| Author | Andrew Lycett |
| ISBN | 0743275233 |
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew...
| Author | Daniel Stashower |
| ISBN | 0805066845 |
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review)
This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...
| Author | David Ruffle |
| ISBN | 1780923163 |
This book was adorable and a great Christmas Sherlock read. When a young girl visits Baker Street to get Sherlock to solve the case of where her snowman went you would think Holmes would dismiss it. But to Watson's surprise Holmes jumps on the case and goes out in the cold to find clues with the little girl....
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success,...
Long after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle allowed him to retire to Sussex to take up beekeeping, there seems to be no end of enthusiasm for imagined versions of the life of Sherlock Holmes. There was Michael Chabon's The Final Solution in which "the old man," an 89-year-old beekeeper in Sussex is undoubtedly...
| Author | George Mann |
| ISBN | 1781160015 |
A young man named Peter Maugram appears at the front door of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson’s Baker Street lodgings. Maugram’s uncle is dead and his will has disappeared, leaving the man afraid that he will be left penniless. Holmes agrees to take the case and he and Watson dig deep into the murky past...
