The great detective : the amazing rise and immortal life of Sherlock Holmes / Zach Dundas.
2015
PR4624 .D86 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The great detective : the amazing rise and immortal life of Sherlock Holmes / Zach Dundas.
Author
Dundas, Zach, author.
ISBN
9780544214040 hardback
0544214048 hardback
0544214048 hardback
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PR4624 .D86 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.809
Summary
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 of the borderland between reality and fiction. He unearths the inspirations behind Holmes and his indispensable companion, Dr. John Watson, and reveals how Conan Doyle's tales laid the groundwork for an infinitely remixable myth, kept alive over the decades by writers, actors, and readers.
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 of the borderland between reality and fiction. He unearths the inspirations behind Holmes and his indispensable companion, Dr. John Watson, and reveals how Conan Doyle's tales laid the groundwork for an infinitely remixable myth, kept alive over the decades by writers, actors, and readers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prelude: 221B
Bohemia
The science of deduction
The wilderness
Holmes & Watson
Moriarty & friends
The curse of the Baskervilles
Secret histories
Black mask
The great game
The return(s) of Sherlock Holmes
Casebook.
Bohemia
The science of deduction
The wilderness
Holmes & Watson
Moriarty & friends
The curse of the Baskervilles
Secret histories
Black mask
The great game
The return(s) of Sherlock Holmes
Casebook.