Sherlock Holmes for Dummies
10 best books like Sherlock Holmes for Dummies (Steven Doyle): Performance in a Leading Role, The Angel of the Opera, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, A Study In Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, The Bedside Companion to Sherlock Holmes, Murder, My Dear Watson: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, My Dearest Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind
Not at all that terrible, and quite enjoyable, to a point.
Some forgivable misapprehensions with regards to how men fuck one another and/or think about fucking one another and/or how often either of those two things occur.
Some nice scenes in the film shoot.
But not a very...
| Author | Sam Siciliano |
| ISBN | 1883402468 |
The unforgettable place: Paris, 1890. The glittering scene: the labyrinthine Paris Opera. The irresistible premise: what if Sherlock Holmes, lured across the Channel by the beleaguered managers of the Opera House, unlocks the true secrets motivating the infamous Phantom? As the hunchbacked Quasimodo...
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 | 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 | 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 | Dick Riley |
| ISBN | 0760771561 |
Pssst! Did you know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes originally went by another name? That the character of Holmes was actually based on a real person? That Conan Doyle never described Holmes as wearing a deerstalker hat, and never, ever had him speak the words, "Elementary,...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0786710810 |
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 new collection of original tales. In the Scottish Highlands...
| Author | Ken Greenwald |
| ISBN | 1566195403 |
When radio broadcasts of the Sherlock Holmes stories were first aired in the 1940s, the avid - and the occasional - Holmes readers were all thrilled. Although the early radio scripts were based on the Conan Doyle stories, they often dealt with questions unanswered by the original stories.
Recently...
| 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...
: A collection of stories, plays and essays about Holmes that are not part of the Canon but certainly make nice supplementary reading. An excellent addition to any Holmes library... This book is similar to the out of print and often difficult to find Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha by Jack Tracy....
| Author | Pierre Bayard |
| ISBN | 1596916052 |
A playfully brilliant re-creation of one of the most-loved detective stories of all time; the companion book no Holmes fan should be without.
Eliminate the impossible, Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But as Pierre Bayard finds in this dazzling reinvestigation of The...
| Author | Michael Dirda |
| ISBN | 1400839491 |
A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction...
| 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 | 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,...
| Author | David Acord |
| ISBN | 0399536981 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius-and the brilliance of others around him-into Sherlock Holmes, creating a character greater than the sum of his parts. In this quirky and intriguing look at the traits that made Sherlock Holmes successful, David Acord explores how to unleash...
| Author | Mike Hogan |
| ISBN | 1780923252 |
It’s Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee but festive celebrations are not the only thing afoot in this riveting and exciting read by Mike Hogan.
I couldn't help by find myself thoroughly engaged throughout this novel. I enjoyed that Mike didn’t just make use of the classic canonical characters...
| 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...
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...
| Author | Larry Millett |
| ISBN | 0142003409 |
An evil adversary has risen from the dead. A letter, written in a secret cipher, tells famed sleuth Sherlock Holmes that Abe Slaney, the vicious murderer he once captured after a duel of wits, has performed another dastardly deed-kidnapping the beautiful widow of a man he killed years earlier. Soon...
| Author | Stephen Kendrick |
| ISBN | 0375403671 |
In this brilliantly crafted pastiche, Stephen Kendrick brings Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown together in an unprecedented collaboration on a singularly shocking murder case.
It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest’s mutilated body has been found in a London church that is hosting a...
