From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon

10 best books like From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon (Mattias Boström): Byron: Life and Legend, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and The Missing Snowman, The Will of the Dead, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Devil's Apprentice, Beowulf

Byron: Life and Legend

Author	Fiona MacCarthy
ISBN	0571179975

An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...

Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind

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...

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

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,...

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

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,...

The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author	John Dickson Carr
ISBN	0786712341

This vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. Like his creation Sherlock Holmes, Doyle...

Sherlock Holmes and The Missing Snowman

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....

The Will of the Dead

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...

The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

Author	Zach Dundas
ISBN	0544214048

A wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sleuth

Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century...

The Devil's Apprentice

Author

Kenneth B. Andersen

Philip is a good boy, a really good boy, who accidentally gets sent to Hell to become the Devil’s heir. The Devil, Lucifer, is dying and desperately in need of a successor, but there’s been a mistake and Philip is the wrong boy. Philip is terrible at being bad, but Lucifer has no other choice than to begin...

Beowulf

Author	Santiago García
ISBN	8415685351

Santiago Garcia and David Rubin unite to bring forward the myth of Beowulf, which has endured for a thousand years, inspired an epic poem, become a foundational piece of English literature, and influenced generations of authors, from J.R.R. Tolkien and Seamus Heaney to a multitude of Hollywood screenwriters.

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Testamente

Author	Nina Wähä
ISBN	9113086979

När Annie blir gravid åker hon motvilligt hem till platsen där hon växte upp. Bondgården ligger i Tornedalen, med sitt egna språk, sitt eget meänkieli. Inte svenska, inte finska, något tredje, eget. Ingen blir särskilt glad över att se henne.

Det här är nämligen en familj som...

Vi for upp med mor (Jana Kippo, #2)

Author	Karin Smirnoff
ISBN	9177951409

Modren har dött och vill begravas i sin hemby Kukkojärvi i norra Norrbotten. Tvillingarna jana och bror ärver hennes föräldrahem och blir snabbt varse att livet i Kukkojärvi är mycket annorlunda. De flesta människor lever enligt strikta religiösa regler där förbuden är många. Den...

Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

Author	Margalit Fox
ISBN	0399589457

In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder.

One of USA Today's "Five new books you won't want to miss!"

"Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like...