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As the wildly successful darling of the publishing industry, chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honor at an exclusive writers' conference at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland. But jealousy and resentment are soon replaced with shock when she is found dead at the bottom of the castle's bottle dungeon. It's up to Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just to track down the true killer in a castle full of cagey mystery connoisseurs who...
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Before Agatha Christie became the world's Queen of Crime, she stood on the talented shoulders of the female crime authors who came before her. This splendid new anthology by Leslie S. Klinger brings these exceptional writers out of Christie's shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve. The truth is that it was due to the success of writers like Anna Katherine Green in America; L. T. Meade, C. L. Pirkis, the Baroness Orczy, and Elizabeth Corbett...
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Pegasus Books
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2016.
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English
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In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science fiction. All of these talented authors, however share...
85) Sherlock Holmes and the king's evil: and other new tales featuring the world's greatest detective
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Pegasus Books
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2009.
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English
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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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Penguin Books
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[2023]
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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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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"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"--
94) Tug of war
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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]
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English
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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
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©2015.
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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...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
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Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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