| Description |
xxii, 789 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"To provide a little guidance through this massive tome, I've divided the stories into several categories but admit, immediately, it is of questionable validity, as many of the stories fall into more than one subdivision (A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse, for example, will be found in the "Literary Writers" section but, since they wrote parodies, they could be found there just as easily). It's not unlike making lists of foods that are delicious and foods that are fattening: there will be overlapping. The two most reasonable choices are to ignore the categorizations altogether or to suggest that you don't take them very much to heart and just enjoy the stories" -- Page vii. |
| Contents |
The master. The field bazaar / Arthur Conan Doyle -- How Watson learned the trick / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Familiar as the rose in spring. The unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett -- The stolen cigar case / Bret Harte -- The case of the man who was wanted / Arthur Whitaker -- The adventure of the two collaborators / James M. Barrie -- The sleuths / O. Henry -- Holmes and the dasher / A. B. Cox -- The irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock -- The doctor's case / Stephen King -- The literature of crime. The brown recluse / Davis Grubb -- The darkwater mystery / Kingsley Amis -- The case of the gifted amateur / J. C. Masterman -- The late Sherlock Holmes / James M. Barrie -- Sherlock Holmes and the drood mystery / Edmund Pearson -- The rape of the Sherlock / A. A. Milne -- From a detective's notebook / P. G. Wodehouse -- The ruby of Khitmandu / Hugh Kingsmill -- The adventure of the remarkable worm / August Derleth -- The enchanted garden / H. F. Heard -- A study in handwriting / Ring W. Lardner -- The case of death and honey / Neil Gaiman -- Murder to music / Anthony Burgess -- In the beginning. An evening with Sherlock Holmes / James M. Barrie -- Detective stories gone wrong: the adventures of Sherlaw Kombs / Robert Barr -- Sherlock Holmes vs. Conan Doyle / Anonymous -- The duke's feather / R. C. Lehmann -- The sign of the "400" / Roy L. McCardell -- Holmesless. Codeine (7 per cent) / Christopher Morley -- Mrs. Hudson's case / Laurie R. King -- The final problem / Bliss Austin -- Not of this place. The adventure of the bogle-wolf / Anthony Boucher -- The martian crown jewels / Poul Anderson -- Sherlock among the spirits / Anonymous -- The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening -- The Devil and Sherlock Holmes / Loren D. Estleman -- Keeping the memory green. The strange case of the Megatherium thefts / S. C. Roberts -- The adventure of the noble husband / Peter Cannon -- A night with Sherlock Holmes / William O. Fuller -- The adventure of the wooden box / Leslie S. Klinger -- The case of the unseen hand / Donald Thomas -- The abandoned brigatine / Sam Benady -- The adventure of the curious canary / Barry Day -- The adventure of the murdered art editor / Frederic Dorr Steele -- The Darlington substitution scandal / David Stuart Davies -- The problem of the purple maculas / James C. Iraldi -- You think that's funny? The adventure of the second swag / Robert Barr -- Sheer luck again / Stanley Rubinstein -- A pragmatic enigma / John Kendrick Bangs -- Herlock Shomes at it again / Anonymous -- The Reigate Road murder / Anthony Armstrong -- The succored beauty / William B. Kahn -- The marriage of Sherlock Holmes / Gregory Breitman -- The return of Sherlock Holmes / E. F. Benson and Eustace H. Miles -- The unmasking of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Chapman -- The adventure of the diamond necklace / George F. Forrest -- The adventure of the ascot tie / Robert L. Fish -- Contemporary Victorians. A case of mis-identity / Colin Dexter -- The startling events in the electrified city / Thomas Perry -- The case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lydnsay Faye -- The infernal machine / John Lutz -- The specter of Tullyfane Abbey / Peter Tremayne -- The adventure of the agitated actress / Daniel Stashower -- The adventure of the Dorset Street lodger / Michael Moorcock -- The adventure of the venomous lizard / Bill Crider -- The case of the Friesland outrage / June Thomson -- The strange case of the tongue-tied tenor / Carol Bugge -- The human mystery / Tanith Lee -- Hostage to fortune / Anne Perry -- The adventure of the missing countess / Jon Koons -- The adventure of Zolnay, the aerialist / Rick Boyer -- The adventure of the giant rat of Sumatra / John T. Lescroart -- The footsteps of a gigantic author. Did Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule...? / Julian Symons -- A trifling affair / H. R. F. Keating -- Raffles: the enigma of the admiral's hat / Barry Perowne -- Raffles on the trail of the hound / Barry Perowne -- The adventure of the cipher in the sand / Edward D. Hoch -- The south sea soup co. / Kenneth Miller -- The adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells -- Sherlock Holmes and the muffin / Dorothy B. Hughes -- The man from Capetown / Start M. Kaminsky -- But our hero was not dead / Manly Wade Wellman -- The adventure of the marked man / Stuart Palmer. |
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Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction.
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Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Short stories, English.
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Short stories, American.
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Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Mystery fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Penzler, Otto, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781101870891 |
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1101870893 |
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