My Dearest Holmes
10 best books like My Dearest Holmes (Rohase Piercy): The Progress of Sherlock Holmes, The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Whitechapel Horrors, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds, Kissing Sherlock Holmes, The Giant Rat of Sumatra, A Study In Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes, The Man from Hell
Sherlock's thought process is what won me. So sharp like flashes of input constantly running and evaluating--analyzing. It felt so comfortable and immediately understandable, it's how I think albeit with less medical biology as the filter. I can see how it might not appeal to some, but for me, it was...
| Author | E.J. Wagner |
| ISBN | 0471648795 |
From autopsies to zoology, how Holmes eliminated the impossible
This unique book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the Victorian era. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic...
| Author | Jess Faraday |
| ISBN | 1602822301 |
London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it,...
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...
| Author | Edward B. Hanna |
| ISBN | 0881848611 |
Edward B. Hanna brings Sherlock Holmes stunningly back to life in this homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great creation. The Whitechapel Horrors, with its spellbinding story and atmospheric prose, is the best new Holmes adventure since Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Here Hanna imagines the characters...
| Author | Manly Wade Wellman |
| ISBN | 1848564910 |
First writen way back in 1968 & published in 1975 this American classic over 50ys ago sees Holmes not with Watson but with Professor Challenger from Doyle's lost world. They give great discretion of him.
But this lacks the sprit of Holmes as we have no mystery nore do we have any Watson .
H.G...
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 | Richard L. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0857685384 |
In deference to Sherlock Holmes’s wishes, Dr Watson kept the tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra a secret. However before he died he arranged that the bizarre story of the giant rat should be held in the vaults of a London bank until all the protagonists were dead....
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s...
| 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 | Barrie Roberts |
| ISBN | 1848565089 |
In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found beaten to death on the grounds of his estate. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel the mystery by pitting their wits against a ruthless new enemy, taking them across the globe in search of the killer.
By turns both thrilling and daring,...
| Author | Leah Moore |
| ISBN | 1606900587 |
Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective Sherlock Holmes returns in an all-new adventure! Holmes himself is the prime suspect in a murder mystery, and while he fights to save his very life, Watson must assemble the pieces of the puzzle in his stead. Will Watson's efforts save his friend or condemn him?...
| 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 | J.R. Campbell |
| ISBN | 1894063600 |
Introduction: I hear of Sherlock everywhere / Charles Prepolec --
The comfort of the Seine / Stephen Volk --
The adventure of Lucifer's footprints / Christopher Fowler --
The deadly sin of Sherlock Holmes / Tom English --
The color that came to Chiswick / William Meikle --
From...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| 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 | Charles Prepolec |
| ISBN | 1894063171 |
Contents:
Interior artwork by Phil Cornell
001 - "Ghosts May Apply" an essay by David Stuart Davies
006 - Introduction: An Introductory Rumination on Stories for Which the World is Not Yet Prepared by Charles Prepolec
015 - "The Lost Boy" by Barbara Hambly
041 - "His...
| Author | Duane Swierczynski |
| ISBN | 1594741999 |
After the rooms at 221B Baker Street are set ablaze—and a mutilated corpse is discovered in the wreckage—Dr. John H. Watson is arrested and imprisoned at Coldbath Fields penitentiary. Writing from a cramped and dimly lit cell, Watson describes the mysterious events leading up to his arrest. Someone...
| Author | Ted Riccardi |
| ISBN | 1400060656 |
Sherlock Holmes is dead—or so most of the world thinks. His fatal plunge over the Reichenbach Falls as he struggled with his archenemy, Moriarty, has been widely reported.
But Holmes has escaped and is alive.
In his immediate circle, only Holmes’s brother, the lethargic genius...
| Author | David Stuart Davies |
| ISBN | 1553100352 |
Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective is widely recognised as the best yet seen. Before his untimely death in 1995, Brett had made the part his own, all the time battling against the manic depression which had plagued him for many years. Bending the Willow' examines how...
| Author | Mike Resnick |
| ISBN | 1567311822 |
Visiškai simboliška knyga. Pradėjau skaityti per Holmso gimtadienį, baigiau per savo. Tai pirmoji šiemet perskaityta Holmso knyga - :( - ir paskutinė šiemetinio GR iššūkio knyga. Ir tt. Ir niekas nebuvo planuota, tiesiog šiandien sukrito. Arba - dėl mūsų likimo žvaigždės kaltos!
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Larry Millett has managed to recapture the voice and style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and bring Sherlock Holmes across the Pond to America. In this third adventure Holmes is hired by King Oskar II of Sweden to authenticate a mysterious stone dug up by a western Minnesota farmer. Trouble begins to mount,...
| Author | Michael Hardwick |
| ISBN | 0743498240 |
El doctor John H. Watson nos narra el caso al que se enfrentaron él mismo y Sherlock Holmes en el verano de 1902, cuando un vagabundo es atacado en el Páramo de Hampstead, encontrándose las huellas de un sabueso enorme en la zona, lo que no deja de recordar a otro antiguo caso, el llamado El sabueso de los...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 1602393524 |
Introduction: "American, as you perceive" / Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower --
Case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye --
Ghosts and the machine / Lloyd Rose --
Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors / Steve Hockensmith...
