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Up front, I didn't read all the stories; there are 22 stories in this collection, and I didn't have time to read the whole thing, so this review only represents a small percentage of them. But, of the stories I read, none of them were bad. In fact, they were all uniformly excellent and I'm looki...
Interestingly informative book about Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of the Sherlock Holmes character, drawing from childhood inspirations (perhaps Dr. Watson was named after someone that had attended a school here or for the name of this other person there) and his adult life - specifically, the prac...
Title: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes Editor: Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King Narrators: Simon Vance, Peter Berkrot, Johnny Heller, John Lee, Bronson Pinchot, Malcolm Hillgartner, Steve West, Ralph Lister, Christopher Lane, Gildart Jackson, Matthew Brenher, Harlan Ellison, Cassandra Campbell, a...
What an unusual idea. Perhaps in the midst of new Sherlock Holmes interest, Penguin decided to put out this unusual volume entitled, "The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes From the Time of Sherlock Holmes." It ended up in my mail after reviewing a collection ...
This anthology collects short stories and an excerpt from a novel, all detective fiction in the late Victorian era that all feature female detectives. These characters investigate locked room mysteries, thefts, and other now standard devices in modern detective fiction. What I found especially impre...