A Sherlock Holmes Handbook

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781465449979

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The Sherlock Holmes Book by DK Pdf

The Sherlock Holmes Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, tackles the most "elementary" of subjects--the world of Sherlock Holmes, as told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes Book is packed with witty illustrations, clear graphics, and memorable quotes that make it the perfect Sherlock Holmes guide, covering every case of the world's greatest detective, from A Study in Scarlet to The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, placing the sorties in a wider context. Stories include at-a-glance flowcharts that show how Holmes reaches his conclusions through deductive reasoning, and character guides provide handy reference for readers and an invaluable resource for fans of the Sherlock Holmes films and TV series. The Sherlock Holmes Book holds a magnifying glass to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781594744778

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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs Pdf

Learn the skills of the world’s most famous detective in this how-to guide for Sherlock enthusiasts and amateur sleuths—from the author of the Miss Peregrine books This reader’s companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world’s most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one’s own death, readers will learn how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases—plus an arsenal of modern techniques available to today’s armchair sleuths. Along the way, readers will discover a host of trivia about the master detective and his universe: • Why did Holmes never marry? • How was the real Scotland Yard organized? • Was cocaine really legal back then? • Why were the British so terrified of Australia? For die-hard Sherlockians and amateur investigators alike, this handbook is nothing less than . . . elementary.

Author : Christopher Redmond
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781554884469

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Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Christopher Redmond Pdf

Here, in one convenient volume, is everything needed for the enjoyment of Holmess canon.

Author : Christopher Redmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525258338

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Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Christopher Redmond Pdf

"Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes - the characters and themes, the publishers and readers, Victorian London and the Houdini connection, radio actors and cartoonists, the fans who cling to Holmes's reality and the professors who tease out motifs from the fifty-six short stories and four novels. The first edition of Sherlock Holmes Handbook appeared in 1993. This edition catches up on new films, new books (a few with a hint of the supernatural) and the advent of the Internet, which has spread Holmes's fame and Sherlockian fun even further worldwide. The intervening years have brought three multi-volume editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with hundreds of footnotes providing new insights and new amusement. They have also seen Holmes repeatedly on the amateur and professional stages, including a few Canadian productions. And there have been changes to everything from copyright rules to libraries, booksellers and audio recordings."

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Top Five Books LLC
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938938672

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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated) by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1921 to 1927, features his last 12 mysteries, including the only two stories narrated by Sherlock Holmes himself-"The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane." This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes includes all 57 illustrations by Howard Elcock, Alfred Gilbert, and Frank Wiles as they appeared in the original Strand serials, as well as a complete Timeline of Sherlock Holmes Cases and a detailed author biography.

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : 1595307214

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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs Pdf

"This reader's companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world's most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one's own death, readers will learn how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases--plus an arsenal of modern techniques available to today's armchair sleuths. Along the way, readers will discover a host of trivia about the master detective and his universe."--Back cover.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784286745

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The Sherlock Holmes Collection by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307275905

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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager—and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation—comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to be a superb storyteller. In The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Grann takes the reader around the world, revealing a gallery of rogues and heroes with their own particular fixations who show that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Author : Packages
Publisher : Packages
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0785818804

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New Sherlock Holmes Adventures by Packages Pdf

After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.

Author : Leslie S, Klinger,Laurie R. King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781643135830

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In League with Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S, Klinger,Laurie R. King Pdf

The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger’s popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective’s genius, mastery, and heroism became the standard by which other creators measured their creations, and the friendship between Holmes and Dr. Watson served as a brilliant model for those who followed Doyle. Not only did the Holmes tales influence the mystery genre but also tales of science-fiction, adventure, and the supernatural. It is little wonder, then, that when the renowned Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger invited their writer-friends and colleagues to be inspired by the Holmes canon, a cornucopia of stories sprang forth, with more than sixty of the greatest modern writers participating in four acclaimed anthologies. Now, King and Klinger have invited another fifteen masters to become In League with Sherlock Holmes. The contributors to the pair’s next volume, due out in December 2020, include award-winning authors of horror, thrillers, mysteries, westerns, and science-fiction, all bound together in admiration and affection for the original stories. Past tales have spanned the Victorian era, World War I, World War II, the post-war era, and contemporary America and England. They have featured familiar figures from literature and history, children, master sleuths, official police, unassuming amateurs, unlikely protagonists, even ghosts and robots. Some were new tales about Holmes and Watson; others were about people from Holmes’s world or admirers of Holmes and his methods. The resulting stories are funny, haunting, thrilling, and surprising. All are unforgettable. The new collection promises more of the same!

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Orion
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409136873

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Sherlock Holmes's Greatest Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

THE GAME IS ON: the greatest adventures of the greatest detective of them all - Sherlock Holmes. The most famous of all fictional detectives in a selection of his most challenging cases, including the stories A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA and THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE and his most famous novel THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. 'Arthur Conan Doyle is unique in simultaneously bringing the curtain down on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that, while imitated and expanded, has never been surpassed.' Stephen Fry 'Why do people still read Sherlock Holmes in an age of DNA testing and electron microscopes? It's elementary. Holmes has a timeless intelligence that puts him head, shoulders and deer-stalker above all other detectives.' Alexander McCall Smith 'Now, as in his lifetime, cab drivers, statesmen, academics, and raggedy-arsed children sit spellbound at his feet... No wonder, then, if the pairing of Holmes and Watson has triggered more imitators than any other duo in literature.' John Le Carre

Author : Charles Phillips,Melanie Frances
Publisher : Ammonite Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781454205

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The Adventure of the British Museum, Volume 2 by Charles Phillips,Melanie Frances Pdf

This is the second title in a series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books: a unique, new form of puzzle books, in which the reader must solve the puzzles to escape the pages. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a locked book: filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, plus an ingenious Hieroglyphic Code Wheel set into the cover. Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection. With King George V due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumors of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum, and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.

Author : Tracy Mack,Michael Citrin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439836722

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The Final Meeting by Tracy Mack,Michael Citrin Pdf

Sherlock Holmes forms a complex plan to take apart the criminal network of Professor Moriarty, and as the Baker Street Irregulars follows Holmes across Europe in an attempt to lend assistance, Moriarty's henchmen try to remove the Irregulars from the

Author : Mike Foy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787056767

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The Curious Book of Sherlock Holmes Characters by Mike Foy Pdf

Imagine the scene, 221b baker street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are in their rooms, Holmes is smoking his pipe staring at the ceiling, "Watson he cries, What do you know about Vanderbilt? Make a long arm and look in that wonderful book 'The Curious Book of Sherlock Holmes Characters', a truly remarkable work, packed will information about every character we have encountered in our 56 short stories and 4 novellas. This writer has even included that carbuncle eating goose and that lazy dog that did nothing." Watson stretched out his arm and picked it up from the coffee table, "I like to keep it handy, it looks so nice on this table, giving the whole room an air of sophistication. In addition it's so large and thick, it would stop an air rifle bullet at a thousand yards. Only the other day I looked up Captain Calhoun and Messrs. Biddle, Hayward and Moffat and found that there was a link between these individuals." Holmes thought a moment, and said "What links Miss Hunter, Miss Smith, Miss Westbury and Miss De Merville?", "Too easy" cried Watson. "What about this Holmes, get those braincells working, Which Canon story has 4 totally unrelated people with the same surname (last name), I can give you a clue, one was a policeman, one was an alias, one was a teen and one was an official. " "And this book lists them all?" asked Holmes, "Yes, there are over one thousand characters in it and of course, we both get a special mention, and it's illustrated throughout" "Sidney Paget again, I suppose?" "Oh no, not just him, but artists like Frederic Dorr Steele of Collier's fame, Ernest Flammarion, F. H. Townsend, Josef Friedrich, Paul Thiriat, Richard Gutschmidt, Arthur Twidle et al. It's a must have for anyone seriously into Us." Mike Foy's mammoth book includes all the characters (animals included) from the Sherlock Holmes canon, with as many illustrations as possible. It's one of the largest compilations of its kind and an excellent reference resource for Sherlock Holmes fans.

Author : Vincent Starrett
Publisher : Gasogene Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 093850147X

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett Pdf

"This enhanced 75th Anniversary Edition adds scholarly commentary and appreciation to a complete facsimile of the rare, 1933 original edition."--Jacket copy.