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81) Sherlock Holmes and the king's evil: and other new tales featuring the world's greatest detective
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Five original tales inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic character feature Holmes taking on such challenges as the famed siege of Sydney Street, a planned German invasion of America, and a supernatual curse.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners A Penguin Classic These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Explores the parallel histories of Sherlock Holmes and England during the Victorian era. Black traces the evolution of Arthur Conan Doyle's plots and characters as culture and society changed dramatically in his lifetime"--
90) Tug of war
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English
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Joe Sandilands has been despatched to France to stay as the guest of a glamorous French war-widow on her Champagne estate. The widow is determined that Joe should support her claim that a mysterious shell-shocked soldier, suffering from amnesia and a loss of speech is her husband. The problem is that four other claimants have identified him differently, and his doctor suspects he is an English soldier. Joe decides to investigate the four claimants...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A look at Sherlock Holmes extensive knowledge and use of science, especially chemistry in his investigations. He seemed to always make his deductions from the most mundane facts. This book also discusses mathematics, physics, biology, astronomy, meteorology and geology, always, of course, in the context of Holme's exploits.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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For longtime Conan Doyle fans as well as readers just discovering Sherlock Holmes, a wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sleuth.
More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first capered into our world, what is it about Arthur Conan Doyle's peculiar creation that continues to fascinate us? Dundas provides a history of an idea, a biography of someone who never lived, a tour...
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she lost her voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
99) Close
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Lily Diamond escapes her life of poverty and parental neglect by marrying London gangster Patrick Brodie, she become acquainted with his world of crime, violence, and betrayal as she tries to raise her children with love.
100) The white trilogy
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Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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