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| New and Recent Books of Sherlockian Interest |
| A SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND By Mitch Cullin Released: April 2005 Publisher: Nan A. Talese ISBN: 0 3855 1328 3 Hardcover - 272 pages US List Price: $23.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £12.84 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $33.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: It is 1947, and the long-retired Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse, where his memories and intellect begin to go adrift. He lives with a housekeeper and her young son, Roger, whose patient, respectful demeanor stirs paternal affection in Holmes. Holmes has settled into the routine of tending his apiary, writing in journals, and grappling with the diminishing powers of his razor-sharp mind, when Roger comes upon a case hitherto unknown. It is that of a Mrs. Keller, the long-ago object of Holmes’s deep—and never acknowledged—infatuation. As Mitch Cullin weaves together Holmes’s hidden past, his poignant struggle to retain mental acuity, and his unlikely relationship with Roger, Holmes is transformed from the machine-like, mythic figure into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he has resisted his entire life. This subtle and wise work is more than just a reimagining of a classic character. It is a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered. |
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| THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: COMPLETE SHORT STORIES By Arthur Conan Doyle Edited and Annotated by Les Klinger Foreword by John LeCarre Release date: November 2004 ISBN: 0 3930 5916 2 Publisher: W.W. Norton Hardcover - 1300 pages (Two Volume Boxed Set) US List Price: $75.00 Click here to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £41.75 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $110.00 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA ! Description: In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger's insightful biographies of Holmes, Watson, and Conan Doyle; history lovers will revel in the wealth of Victorian literary and cultural details; Sherlockian fans will puzzle over tantalizing new theories; art lovers will thrill to the 800-plus illustrations, which make this the most lavishly illustrated edition of the Holmes tales ever produced. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes illuminates the timeless genius of Arthur Conan Doyle for an entirely new generation of readers. 802 illustrations, 8 pages of color, 650 pages each volume. Highly Recommended for all Sherlockians! |
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| THE FORGOTTEN ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES By H. Paul Jeffers Release date: October 2005 ISBN: 0 7867 1587 1 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback - 272 pages US List Price: $14.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £8.00 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $18.85 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: Adapted from the original Sherlock Holmes radio broadcasts featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and penned by the talented Anthony Boucher, these new pastiches by H. Paul Jeffers are sure to thrill all lovers of the Holmes canon. When radio broadcasts of Boucher's stories aired in the 1940s, Doyle fans were ecstatic. 221 A Baker Street Associates, with their discovery of the archive of these long-lost broadcasts, herewith presents the second volume of forgotten adventures featuring the Great Detective and his loyal companion, in tales certain to keep readers guessing until the final solution. |
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| Click below to order Curious Incidents Vol. 1 from: Mad For A Mystery |
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| THE SCIENCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: FROM BASKERVILLE HALL TO THE VALLEY OF FEAR, THE REAL FORENSICS BEHIND THE GREAT DETECTIVE'S GREATEST CASES By E. J. Wagner Released: March 2006 Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 0 4716 4879 5 Hardcover - 256 pages US List Price: $24.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £14.33 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $31.99 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: This unique book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the Victorian era. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic autopsies evolved from anatomical dissection, the huge advances in blood chemistry and poison detection, and the early use of fingerprints, photography and trace evidence. It also provides new insights into landmark criminal cases that influenced the forensic world, such as Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, and includes rare period illustrations. E. J. Wagner (Stony Brook, NY) is a crime historian and lecturer who specializes in forensic roles. She is the organizer and moderator of the annual Forensic Forum at the Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook. Her work has been published in the New York Times and the Lancet. |
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| A STUDY IN SCARLET Written By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrated By Nis Jessen Release date: Spring 2005 ISBN: ? Publisher: Hakon Holm Publishing US List Price: N/A Click here to order from Hakon Holm Publishing ! Description: This new edition of A Study in Scarlet is fully illustrated by the Danish artist Nis Jessen. More than 600 striking illustrations bring new life to the original text of Beeton's Christmas Annual. Available in 3 editions: Standard edition 600 illustrations Price, 60 Euro Visit the publisher's website here for more details and samples! Highest Recommendation! Simply a stunning publication! |
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| THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE NOVELS (A STUDY IN SCARLET, THE SIGN OF FOUR, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, THE VALLEY OF FEAR) By Arthur Conan Doyle - Edited and Annotated by Les Klinger Release date: November 2005 ISBN: 0 3930 5800 X Publisher: W.W. Norton Hardcover - 992 pages (Slip-cased hardcover) US List Price: $49.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £26.78 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $70.00 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: Here, in this eagerly awaited third volume, Klinger reassembles Doyle's four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 new notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Whether as a stand-alone volume or as a companion to the boxed short stories, this classic work illuminates the timeless genius of Conan Doyle for an entirely new generation. Highly Recommended (See previous Volumes below). |
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| ARSENE LUPIN VS SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE STAGE PLAY by Frank J. Morlock (Adapter), Victor Darlay, Henry de Gorsse Release date: April 2005 ISBN: 1 9329 8316 3 Publisher: Black Coat Press Trade Paperback - 248 pages US List Price: $20.95 Click here to order from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £11.23 Click here to order from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $26.36 Click here to order from Amazon CA Description: Arsène Lupin has stolen the Sultan Diamond under the nose of the French Police and Sherlock Holmes has sworn to recover the stone and arrest his rival - all in less than a week! This 1910 French stage play pitting France's notorious Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective has never before been translated into English! This edition also includes an original Sherlock Holmes play by Frank J. Morlock. |
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| THE MAN FROM BEYOND: A NOVEL By Gabriel Brownstein Release date: September 2005 ISBN: 0 3930 5152 8 Publisher: W. W. Norton Hardcover - 320 pages US List Price: $23.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £? Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Description: It is April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photographs of ghosts and spirits; of female mediums bound and gagged, ectoplasmic goo emerging from their bodies. In the newspapers, he defends the powers of the mysterious Margery, one of the most famous mediums of the day. His good friend Harry Houdini is a skeptic, and when Doyle claims Margery's powers are superior to Houdini's, the magician goes on the attack. Into this mix of spirit-chasing celebrities enters Molly Goodman, a young reporter whose job is to cover the heated debate. As she wanders into this world of spooks and spirits, murder and criminal frauds, Molly discovers herself: her true love, her place in the world…even her relationship to her beloved dead brother, Carl. |
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| THE GHOSTS OF BAKER STREET: NEW TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg Release date: February 2006 ISBN: 0 7867 1400 X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback - 320 pages US List Price: $16.95 Click here now to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £9.74 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $22.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: Featuring an all-star cast of Doyle devotees that includes Caleb Carr and Daniel Stashower, hosts of Baker Street is the third collection of original mystery stories featuring the literary world’s greatest detective (Murder in Baker Street; Murder, My Dear Watson)—and these stories bring Holmes and Watson up against the supernatural. This latest installment in the New Tales of Sherlock Holmes series—edited by Martin H. Greenberg, one of crime fiction's most awarded editors and anthologists—brings the reader more adventures where the ultimate disbelieving detective tackles mysteries with a distinctly strange flavor, featuring crimes and situations that may possibly be not of this world. |
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| THE ITALIAN SECRETARY By Caleb Carr Release date: April 10, 2005 ISBN: 0 7867 1548 0 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Hardcover - 256 pages US List Price: $23.95 Click here now to order for less from Amazon US ! Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland by a telegram from Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, a royal advisor. Rushed northward on a royal train—and nearly murdered themselves en route—the pair are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of two of the Queen’s servants, a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been working on the renovation of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh. Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen’s life. But the circumstances of the two victims’ deaths also call to Holmes’ mind the terrible murder—in Holyrood—of "The Italian Secretary," David Rizzio. Only Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered three centuries ago. Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the announcement that the Italian Secretary’s vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination. Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Caleb Carr’s brilliant new offering takes the Conan Doyle tradition to remarkable new heights with this spellbinding tale. Recommended for pastiche enthusiasts only. Good writing let down by an ill-conceived story. |
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| Special deluxe edition (only 1000 copies) 600 illustrations Slip-cased Signed and numbered Price, 78 Euro |
| Deluxe edition 600 illustrations Slip-cased Price, 70 Euro |
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| SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE BIOGRAPHY By Nick Rennison Released: November 2005 Publisher: Atlantic Books ISBN: 1 8435 4274 9 Hardcover - 240 pages UK List Price: £14.99 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $30.60 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: From his mysterious connections to the British criminal underworld to his early acquaintance with Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes: the biography blends what we already know of Holmes's career with social history to answer the questions his admirers have long puzzled over. Sherlock Holmes: the biography reveals for the first time Holmes's unprecedented influence on the major political events and crimes of late-nineteenth-century England. It also brings to light Holmes's close friendships with key figures of the day, including Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud and Cecil Rhodes; and exposes the truth about his cocaine addiction. As a young man, Holmes was drawn to the stage and ran away from Cambridge to work in the West End with the actor Henry Irving. Later, his older brother Mycroft drew him into unofficial work for the British government - including a hitherto unknown conspiracy to murder the Irish nationalist sympathizer Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. This meticulous recreation of the secret life and curious times of the great detective will prove compulsive reading for Holmes fans everywhere. |
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| HOLMES ON THE RANGE By Steve Hockensmith Release date: February 7, 2006 ISBN: 0 3123 4780 4 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Hardcover - 304 pages US List Price: $22.95 Click here now to order for less from Amazon US ! UK List Price: £13.18 Click here to order for less from Amazon UK ! Canadian List Price: $29.95 Click here to order for less from Amazon CA Description: 1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar-VR cattle spread, they’re not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around which they can enjoy their favorite pastime: scouring Harper’s Weekly for stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes. When another ranch hand turns up in an outhouse with a bullet in his brain, Old Red sees the perfect opportunity to employ his Holmes-inspired deducifyin skills, puts his ranch work squarely on the back burner, and sets out to solve the case. Big Red, like it or not (and mostly he does not), is along for the wild ride in this clever, compelling, and completely one-of-a-kind mystery. Highly Recommended, even though this does NOT feature Sherlock Holmes himself, it's the best Sherlockian spin-off in many a year! |
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