Sherlock Holmes in Context

by Sam Naidu
Sherlock Holmes in Context
Author: Sam Naidu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-03-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137555955
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This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock Holmes, nearly 130 years after his birth, is enjoying such a spectacular renaissance; and, thirdly, what sort of communities, imagined or otherwise, have arisen around this figure since the most recent resurrections of Sherlock Holmes by popular media? Covering various media and genres (TV, film, literature, theatre) and scholarly approaches, this comprehensive collection offers cogent answers to these questions.

Sherlock Holmes in Context

by Sam Naidu
Sherlock Holmes in Context
Author: Sam Naidu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137555946
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This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock Holmes, nearly 130 years after his birth, is enjoying such a spectacular renaissance; and, thirdly, what sort of communities, imagined or otherwise, have arisen around this figure since the most recent resurrections of Sherlock Holmes by popular media? Covering various media and genres (TV, film, literature, theatre) and scholarly approaches, this comprehensive collection offers cogent answers to these questions.

The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

by Janice M. Allan
The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes
Author: Janice M. Allan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107155851
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Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0199555648
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These are the last twelve stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s and also include some of the wittiest passages in the series.

A Study in Crimson

by Robert J. Harris
A Study in Crimson
Author: Robert J. Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164313759X
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Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world’s greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper. London, 1942. A killer going by the name of “Crimson Jack” is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack—or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets of London, death waits just around the corner. Inspired by the classic film series from Universal Pictures starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which took Sherlock Holmes to the 1940s, this is a brand-new adventure from a talented author who brilliantly evokes one of mystery fiction’s most popular characters.

Gothic Tales

by Arthur Conan Doyle
Gothic Tales
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0198734298
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This collection brings together 33 of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales for the first time.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307834409
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Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.