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Murder, My Dear Watson 1st Carroll & Graf Edition
Author(s): Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor), John Lellenberg
- Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
- Publication Date: 24 Nov. 2002
- Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786710810
- ISBN-13: 9780786710812
Book Description
The second volume of never-before-published Sherlock Holmes stories collects the contributions of great mystery writers to the genre, including Anne Perry, Shayrn McCrumb, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Carolyn Wheat, Jon L. Breen, and others, who offer their own interpretations of exploits of the master sleuth.
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Synopsis
Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazyin 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 and Afghanistan, in the cases of a dying doctor and a mooning sentry, of a black basalt bird and white chalk horse, popular contemporary mystery writersamong them Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Anne Perry and Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Brucecraftily celebrate the mind, methods, and manners of the peerless Sherlock Holmes. In addition, with one foot in the Victorian age and the other in the computer age, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers Sherlockians in “Sherlock Holmes on the Internet,” while in “A Sherlockian Library” editors Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature’s most famous friendships in “Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart. “
