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    How the Tories Self-Destructed

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy

    The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind

    Edited by Josef Steiff ...
    Series Book 61 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    This entertaining collection of essays shows that Sherlock Holmes sees things others don’t. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world and human behavior in different ways as well. Oh, sure, there have been countless detectives who have followed in his footsteps and who seem to rival his abilities. Just turn on the TV or browse the local bookshop and ... Read more

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  • On Conan Doyle

    by Michael Dirda ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock HolmesA passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars—the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes

    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Essays about the famed fictional detective and the mysteries of life: "Both elegantly erudite and consistently entertaining" (E. J. Wagner, Edgar Award–winning author of The Science of Sherlock Holmes).Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective has stood as a unique figure for more than a century with his reliance on logical rigor, his analytic precision, and his disregard of social mores. A true classic, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edited by Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Read more

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  • Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century

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    Edited by Lynnette Porter ...
    The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr.; an internationally popular BBC television series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories, including two by Neil Gaiman. Add to this the videogames, comic books, and fan-created works, plus a ... Read more

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  • Watson Is Not an Idiot

    An Opinionated Tour of the Sherlock Holmes Canon

    by Eddy Webb ...
    Over the past few years, Sherlock Holmes has exploded in popularity. The character has made a huge impact on the 21st century, with multiple interpretations gaining a growing audience of new Sherlockians. But many fans of Sherlock and Elementary know very little about the original stories themselves. Watson is Not an Idiot is an opinionated exploration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original canon, ... Read more

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