Murder, My Dear Watson

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Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of never-before-published Sherlockian tales. As in the popular premier volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten other outstanding contemporary mystery writers-including Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bili Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Dániel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman-celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes. In the Scottish Highlands and Afghanistan, in the cases of a dying doctor and a mooning sentry, of a black basalt bird and white chalk horse, in every originál story, the Great Detective repeatedly and ingeniously proves himself to be yet beyond peer. In addition, with one foot in the age of Victoria and the other in the computer age, Christopher Redmond... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of never-before-published Sherlockian tales. As in the popular premier volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten other outstanding contemporary mystery writers-including Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bili Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Dániel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman-celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes. In the Scottish Highlands and Afghanistan, in the cases of a dying doctor and a mooning sentry, of a black basalt bird and white chalk horse, in every originál story, the Great Detective repeatedly and ingeniously proves himself to be yet beyond peer. In addition, with one foot in the age of Victoria and the other in the computer age, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers Sherlockians in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet," while in "A Sherlockian Library" editors Jon Lellenberg and Dániel Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart." Vissza