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The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, John BerendtISBN 0375760024 (0-375-76002-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The stories known collectively as The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes turned the literary detective into a household name and are the best-loved of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories. From "The Scandal of Bohemia," a case in which Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, to the "The Five Orange Pips," in which Holmes is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to "The Final Problem," in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, plunge to their deaths at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories bear witness to the flowering of Doyle's genius. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0375760024 (0-375-76002-4)
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The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Scott McKowenISBN 140271453X (1-4027-1453-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
Its elementarytheres no more intriguing detective than Sherlock Holmes, with his unequalled powers of deduction, and no better mysteries than the tricky ones that only he can solve. Here are some of the finest Holmes stories, recounted by his trusty friend and assistant, Dr. Watson.More editions of The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140437711 (0-14-043771-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:From his rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes's brooding figure emerges into the foggy streets of Victorian London to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil.[via]
@KeepDiggingWatson Why are the lights at 221 Baker Street so damn bright in the morning? Why does Watson talk so loud? Elementary, my dear STFU!
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All-Consuming Fireby Andy LaneISBN 0426204158 (0-426-20415-8)
Hardcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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The Art of Detectionby Laurie R. KingISBN 1585478164 (1-58547-816-4)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Detection'Book summary:In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. Kings Edgar and Creasey Awardswinning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmesin a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the intelligent, witty, and complex mind of New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King&.
Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes storycomplete with violin, tobacco-filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.
Philip Gilbert was a true Holmes fanatic, from his antiquated décor to his vintage wardrobe. And no mere fan of fictions great detective, but a leading expert with a collection of priceless memorabiliaa collection some would kill for.
And perhaps someone did: In his collection is a century-old manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himselfa manuscript that eerily echoes details of Gilberts own murder.
Now, with the help of her partner, Al Hawkin, Kate must follow the convoluted trail of a killerone who may have trained at the feet of the greatest mind of all times. [via] 
The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmesby Dick Riley, Pam McAllisterISBN 0826411169 (0-8264-1116-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Canary Trainerby Nicholas MeyerISBN 0393312410 (0-393-31241-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Canary Trainer'Book summary:Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes's biographer and friend, reveals hitherto unknown adventures of the Great Detectivewhile he was employed, incognito, as a violinist in the Paris Opera.
As the detective matches wits with a musical maniacthe Phantom of the Operain a death struggle for the body and soul of Christine Daae, the miraculous soprano for whom the Ghost serves as a mesmeric "Canary Trainer," we are treated to an adventure unlike any other in the Holmes archive.
Nicholas Meyer also "edited" the two-million-copy bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The West End Horror, both of which are available in paperback from Norton. Meyer is a novelist, screenwriter, and director as well as a Holmes scholar.
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The Case of the Baker St. Irregularsby Anthony BoucherISBN 0881841994 (0-88184-199-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Case of the Baker Street Irregularsby Anthony BoucherISBN 0786702214 (0-7867-0221-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Classic Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: Thirty Seven Short Stories Plus a Complete Novelby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0681401893 (0-681-40189-3)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The Complete Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0517174960 (0-517-17496-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmesby Michael HardwichISBN 0312072481 (0-312-07248-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Few authors have been so widely read and re-read as Arthur Conan Doyle--but then, few fictional characters have been so irresistible as Sherlock Holmes. Hardwick's companion to the stories, now available for the first time in paperback, offers entertaining digests of each tale and includes lists of characters, quotations, and unchronicled cases. Illustrated. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmesby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0743423925 (0-7434-2392-5)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana, Or, A Universal Dictionary of the State of Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes and His Biographer John H. Watson M.D.by Jack TracyISBN 0385030614 (0-385-03061-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Encyclopedia Sherlockiana : The Complete A-to-Z Guide to the World of the Great Detectiveby Matthew E. BunsonISBN 067179826X (0-671-79826-X)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Further Adventures of Sherlock HolmesISBN 0195853350 (0-19-585335-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0895775522 (0-89577-552-2)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0140079076 (0-14-007907-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Game Is Afootby Marvin KayeISBN 0312117973 (0-312-11797-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Good Morning, Ireneby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0812509498 (0-8125-0949-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Holmes for the Holidaysby Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, Carol-Lynn Rossel-WaughISBN 0425167542 (0-425-16754-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Holmes-Dracula Fileby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0812523849 (0-8125-2384-9)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Illus Sherlock Holmes Pby CrownISBN 051755660X (0-517-55660-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0755468821 (0-7554-6882-1)
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Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517263289 (0-517-26328-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasuryby Doyle, Sidney PagetISBN 0517436132 (0-517-43613-2)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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Irene at Largeby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0812517024 (0-8125-1702-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Storyby Michael DibdinISBN 0679766588 (0-679-76658-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Ken GreenwaldISBN 0792451074 (0-7924-5107-4)
Hardcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventuresby Michael AshleyISBN 0786704772 (0-7867-0477-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Murder in Baker Streetby Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, Daniel StashowerISBN 0786710748 (0-7867-1074-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Murder in Baker Streetby Jon L. Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Martin H. GreenbergISBN 1841197270 (1-84119-727-0)
Hardcover, Robinson
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Naked Is the Best Disguiseby Samuel RosenbergISBN 0672519143 (0-672-51914-3)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, Carol-Lynn Rossel WaughISBN 0786706988 (0-7867-0698-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Martin H. GreenbergISBN 0881844357 (0-88184-435-7)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:A hardcover bestseller last year, this volume of 15 stories by eminent mystery writers includes the talents of Stephen King, John Gardner, Dorothy B. Hughes, Michael Gilbert, and Peter Lovesey. [via]
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The Original Illustratedby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890093911 (0-89009-391-1)
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890090572 (0-89009-057-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:1977 Castle Publishers HB. 356 illustrations by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine where the S. Holmes mysteries were originally published. Great gift for a Conan Doyle Fan!!! [via]
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 3by Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 078581325X (0-7858-1325-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 3'Book summary:Here, reproduced in complete facsimile, are the original Sherlock Homes detective stories as they first appeared in the famed 19th-century British magazine "The Strand." Illustrating the stories are drawings of Sidney Paget - illustrations as immortal as the stories themselves. Includes over 37 of Doyle's best suspense-filled short-stories plus the complete version of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. [via]
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Original Illustrated Strand Sherlockby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0792454154 (0-7924-5415-4)
Hardcover, World Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock'Book summary:It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. [via]
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Prisoner of the Devilby Michael HardwickISBN 1558174478 (1-55817-447-8)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Return of Moriartyby John E. GardnerISBN 0425050939 (0-425-05093-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Revenge of the Houndby Michael HardwickISBN 1596872624 (1-59687-262-4)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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A badly mauled tramp and the footprints of a giant hound; the theft of Oliver Cromwell's bones a sinister murder on the channel ferry; an illustrious personage who fears blackmail....It is up to Sherlock Holmes and his brilliant powers of deduction to uncover the pattern connecting these bizzare events.
You can share your thoughts about Michael Hardwick's "The Revenge of the Hound in the new ibooks virtual readers' group atwww.ibooksinc.com [via]
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Softcover, Pocket Books - The Revenge of the Hound: ISBN 0394556534 (0-394-55653-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Revenge of the Hound: ISBN 081614527X (0-8161-4527-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Revenge of the Hound: ISBN 1596872624 (1-59687-262-4)
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- The Revenge of the Hound: ISBN 1558171665 (1-55817-166-5)
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The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesISBN 1555219748 (1-55521-974-8)
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Rivals of Sherlock Holmesby AllenISBN 0890092079 (0-89009-207-9)
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes:Early Detective Storiesby Hugh GreeneISBN 0370014340 (0-370-01434-0)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0708901905 (0-7089-0190-5)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murdersby Larry MillettISBN 0140280898 (0-14-028089-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders'Book summary:To the delight of all Holmes and mystery fans, a second intriguing manuscript is "unearthed": a strange and terrible tale of the celebrated detective's 1896 return to Minnesota, the scene of Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon, a work praised by Sherlockian experts for its outstanding authenticity. There, in the "dead tough" city of St. Paul, bustling with its annual Winter Carnival, the son of a noted businessman has disappeared. It is the eve of his wedding, but even before Holmes can search the Ice Palace where he was last seen, the young man's fianc*e inexplicably gives her bridal gown away. The case takes Holmes to the highest levels of power and corruption--and into a battle of competing wits with one Shadwell Rafferty, a genial, giant, Irish saloonkeeper who specializes in "discreet investigations." To penetrate the dark heart of the matter, Holmes must brave the Mississippi's frigid waters and confront the villain amid the roar of rockets, in one of the most thrilling episodes "Watson" ever committed to paper. [via]
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Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demonby Larry MillettISBN 0140296441 (0-14-029644-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demonby John H. Watson, Larry MillettISBN 0140258825 (0-14-025882-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mysteryby Larry MillettISBN 0670888214 (0-670-88821-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery'Book summary:A further eruption of American criminality draws the impeccably reinvented Sherlock Holmes into partnership with a brilliant and roguish mind
The numerous mystery fans and discerning Sherlockian experts who have been following "Watson's American chronicles" will be thrilled by the third manuscript to be "discovered": Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery. As the century winds down, Holmes's services are engaged by a personage no less than King Oskar II of Sweden, who proposes to purchase a mysterious stone dug up by a western Minnesota farmer. But before the celebrated detective can attempt to authenticate this fabulous find, the hapless farmer is murdered and his stone vanishes.
In this singular case Holmes's soaring imagination is complemented by the talent for "discreet investigations" first displayed by Irish saloonkeeper Shadwell Rafferty in Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders. Rotund and rollicking, sharp as a St. Paul wind and tough as his own old leather boots, Rafferty accompanies the great detective through a maze of intrigue and villainy on a hunt for a rune stone, a murderer, and the archeological truth. [via]More editions of Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery:
Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Swordby Frank ThomasISBN 0523425112 (0-523-42511-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?by T.S. BlakeneyISBN 1883402107 (1-883402-10-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sherlock Holmes in Orbitby Mike ResnickISBN 1567311822 (1-56731-182-2)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, the Life of the World's First Consulting Detective.by William Stuart Baring-GouldISBN 051703817X (0-517-03817-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbookby Peter Haining, Peter CushingISBN 0517172488 (0-517-17248-8)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyleby Arthur Conan Doyle, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517618346 (0-517-61834-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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A Slight Trick of the Mindby Mitch CullinISBN 1400078229 (1-4000-7822-9)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Slight Trick of the Mind'Book summary:Long after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle allowed him to retire to Sussex to take up beekeeping, there seems to be no end of enthusiasm for imagined versions of the life of Sherlock Holmes. There was Michael Chabon's The Final Solution in which "the old man," an 89-year-old beekeeper in Sussex is undoubtedly Holmes. Laurie King, a fine mystery writer, has appropriated Holmes and created a romance between him and young Mary Russell which has lasted through several enjoyable books. And now, nonagenarian Holmes reappears, most appealingly, in Mitch Cullin's A Slight Trick of the Mind. He is frail and forgetful but still observant and capable of shining the bright light of his insight and brilliance on events both past and present.
Cullin has carefully woven three stories together and managed it so neatly that no threads show--worthy of Holmes himself. The first is the story of Holmes's recent return from a trip to Japan, ostensibly in search of prickly ash, a bush that he believes contributes to healthy longevity, as does his beloved and trusted royal jelly. While there, he is met by his correspondent, Mr. Umezaki, who isn't as interested in prickly ash as in gleaning information from Holmes about his long-gone father. Supposedly, they met many years before, in London, and Holmes advised him not to return home. Of course, Holmes has no recollection of the meeting but finesses it nicely.
It is 1947 when they visit Hiroshima, post-atomic bomb, and Holmes marvels at what he sees. He compares it, most poignantly, to the loss of the queen in a hive, "when no resources were available to raise a new one. Yet how could he explain the deeper illness of unexpressed desolation, that imprecise pall harbored en masse by ordinary Japanese?" That is what he tells Roger, the 14-year-old son of his housekeeper. Roger is the second thread of the novel. Holmes is introducing him to beekeeping and Roger proves an apt student. His hero-worship of Holmes and his need for a father form an integral part of Cullin's intention of "humanizing" the great Sherlock Holmes.
The final thread is revealed in a journal that Holmes kept, in which he entered an encounter with a married woman, many years ago. He is infatuated with her, and hardly knows what to call it or what to make of his feelings. This is unfamiliar territory for the man who is rational above all else. The man we know at the end of the book makes the reader want another installment, showing a new Sherlock with a heart as well as a brain. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486431665 (0-486-43166-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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