Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography
10 best books like Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison): The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases, The Angel of the Opera, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D., The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Scroll of the Dead, The Giant Rat of Sumatra, A Study In Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes, The Man from Hell
| 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 | 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 | Nicholas Meyer |
| ISBN | 0393312410 |
Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. John Watson, the biographer of Sherlock Holmes, reveals for the first time a hitherto unknown episode in the life of the Great Detective.
The year is 1891, Paris is the capital of the western world, and its...
| 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...
| Author | H. Paul Jeffers |
| ISBN | 1848565097 |
NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW
In this story, written by future President Theodore Roosevelt long before The Great Detective’s first encounter with Dr Watson, Holmes visits America to solve a most violent and despicable crime. A crime that was to prove the most taxing of his brilliant career...
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| Author | David Stuart Davies |
| ISBN | 1848564937 |
Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth, a man hell-bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptian papyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster...
In this fast-paced adventure, the action moves from...
| 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 | Jamyang Norbu |
| ISBN | 1582343284 |
In 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Then, to its amazement, he reappeared two years later, informing a stunned Watson, 'I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore,...
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
| Author | Guy Adams |
| ISBN | 0857682822 |
The nineteenth century is about to draw to a close. In its place will come the twentieth, a century of change, a century of science, a century that will see the superstitions of the past swept away.
There are some who are determined to see that never happens. A body is found crushed to death in the...
