Murder, My Dear Watson: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005VSIF0I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "Smithsonian Magazine", "AARP: The Magazine", and "National Geographic Traveler" as well as other publications. Jon Lellenberg is the US agent for the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd and coeditor of "Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters".DANIEL STASHOWER is an acclaimed biographer and narrative historian and winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony awards, and the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective
Kindle Customer said Lots of Plums. Within the past three months I've read a dozen collections of Holmes pastiches, and found this to be the best. It includes several quotable "plums." Such plums were one of the key features of the original Holmes stories; they'd be a raisinless rice pudding without them. Here are a few:P. 1Lots of Plums Within the past three months I've read a dozen collections of Holmes pastiches, and found this to be the best. It includes several quotable "plums." Such plums were one of the key features of the original Holmes stories; they'd be a raisinless rice pudding without them. Here are a few:P. 13: The best way to tell a lie effecti. : The best way to tell a lie effecti. K. Thompson said Just plain not good. I love Sherlock Holmes, and I love to explore Holmes pastiches, parodies, novels and essays. I was intrigued by this one, because I've read other anthologies and works by Stashower and Greenberg, so I thought I'd give this one a look too.Wish I hadn't wasted my time. Very, very bad stories. They just weren't good. Slim plots . Slim pickings again A Customer I went ahead and invested in this follow-up to last year's "Murder in Baker Street", hoping that the stories would be better. Well, they weren't. The tales are just flat and unexciting. What happened to the good stories some of these authors used to contribute to previous anthologies? Out of this batch, maybe two are worth re
Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Daniel Stashower, and Loren D. Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy—in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart." This is truly a treasury of never-before-published Sherlockian tales that should not be missed.. Estleman— celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes in this paperback version. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second colle
The ubiquitous Watson often takes center stage in these 10 tales: Colin Bruce's "Adventure of the Dying Doctor" pits the good doctor and Mycroft Holmes against an improbable insurance and stock fraud scheme entailing an errant comet, while Holmes watches benignly from the sidelines. Griffith, who is threatened by German spies seeking to prevent him from helping the allied war effort. From Publishers Weekly Like its predecessor from the same editors, Murder in Baker Street (2001), this solid anthology offers some choice Sherlockian plums. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Other stories bring the legendary detective into contact with Queen Victoria, whose would-be assassins are foiled in the nick of time, a