Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
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| 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...
The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
| Author | Stephanie Osborn |
| ISBN | 1606191896 |
The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival is a SF mystery in which brilliant hyperspatial physicist, Dr. Skye Chadwick, discovers there are alternate realities, often populated by those we consider only literary characters. Her pet research, Project: Tesseract, hidden deep under Schriever...
| 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 | 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 | 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....
: 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 | 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...
| 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 | 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 | Robert Lee Hall |
| ISBN | 0872165116 |
Ever wondered just what was the relationship between Holmes and Moriarty? Why no one has ever seen the two of them together? Well, here's your answer. As Moriarty himself puts it: 'We are closer than brothers - and further apart than any two beings can be.' This non-Doyle pastiche continues the Sherlock...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
This work contains the following stories:
Max Pemberton: 'The Ripening Rubies'
Arthur Morrison: 'The Case of Laker, Absconded'
Guy Boothby: 'The Dutchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds'
Arthur Morrison: 'The Affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Ltd"'
Clifford Ashdown:...
| Author | David Stuart Davies |
| ISBN | 1853267449 |
Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street...
| Author | Raymond M. Smullyan |
| ISBN | 0812923898 |
Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted...
| Author | Donald Serrell Thomas |
| ISBN | 1605980439 |
In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the...
| Author | Carole Kismaric |
| ISBN | 0684846896 |
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys have woven their spell of teen intrigue over more than 150 million readers, beginning in 1927 and continuing today. With its marvelous text and brilliant design, The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys uncovers why the fearless young crime fighters remain beloved...
| Author | Michael Kurland |
| ISBN | 0450045609 |
From the twisting alleyways of Constantinople to the teeming streets of London's East End...
A spectre is haunting Europe. A man who is both fiend and genius. His name is Trepoff. His creed is anarchy.
Abduction, assassination, atrocity mark his path across Europe.
The...
