BOOKS - The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime Black Lizard Original)
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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime Black Lizard Original)
Author: Otto Penzler
Year: September 24, 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 9.7 MB
Language: English
Year: September 24, 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 9.7 MB
Language: English
Presenting Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Sherlockian tales ever assembled - now in a deluxe hardcover edition, perfect for the collector and gift markets.Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. From his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet,readers have loved reading about him - and writers have loved writing about him. Here, Otto Penzler collects 83 wonderful stories about Holmes and Dr. John Watson, the majority of which will be new to readers. Among these pages are tales by acclaimed Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (Kenneth Millar, P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman); and parodies by Conan Doyle's contemporaries James M. Barrie, O. Henry, and August Derleth.CONTENTS Introduction by Otto Penzler THE MASTERArthur Conan Doyle, "The Field Bazaar"Arthur Conan Doyle, "How Watson Learned the Trick" FAMILIAR AS THE ROSE IN SPRINGVincent Starrett, "The Unique Hamlet"Bret Harte, "The Stolen Cigar-Case"Arthur Whitaker, "The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted"James M. Barrie, "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"O. Henry, "The Sleuths"A. B. Cox, "Holmes and the Dasher"Stephen Leacock, "An Irreducible Detective Story"Stephen King, "The Doctor's Case" THE LITERATURE OF CRIMEDavis Grubb, "The Brown Recluse"Kingsley Amis, "The Darkwater Hall Mystery"J.C. Masterman, "The Case of the Gifted Amateur"James M. Barrie, "The Late Sherlock Holmes"Edmund Pearson, "Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery"A.A. Milne, "The Rape of the Sherlock"P. G. Wodehouse, "From a Detective's Note-Book"Hugh Kingsmill, "The Ruby of Khitmandu"August Derleth, "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm"H. F. Heard, "The Enchanted Garden"Ring Lardner, "A Study in Handwriting"Neil Gaiman, "The Case of Death and Honey"Anthony Burgess, "Murder to Music" IN THE BEGINNINGJames M. Barrie, "An Evening with Sherlock Holmes"Robert Barr, "Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs"Anonymous, "Sherlock Holmes vs. Conan Doyle"R. C. Lehmann, "The Duke's Feather"Roy L. McCardell, "The Sign of the '400'" HOLMESLESSChristopher Morley, "Codeine (7 Per Cent)"Laurie R. King, "Mrs. Hudson's Case"Bliss Austin, "The Final Problem" NOT OF THIS PLACEAnthony Boucher, "The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf"Poul Anderson, "The Martian Crown Jewels"Anonymous, "Sherlock Among the Spirits"Logan Clendening, "The Case of the Missing Patriarchs"Loren D. Estleman, "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes" KEEPING THE MEMORY GREENS. C. Roberts, "The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts"Peter Cannon, "The Adventure of the Noble Husband"William O. Fuller, "A Night with Sherlock Holmes"Leslie S. Klinger, "The Adventure of the Wooden Box"Donald Thomas, "The Case of the Unseen Hand"Sam Benady, "The Abandoned Brigantine"Barry Day, "The Adventure of the Curious Canary"Frederic Dorr Steele, "The Adventure of the Murdered Art Editor"David Stuart Davies, "The Darlington Substitution Scandal"James C. Iraldi, "The Problem of the Purple Maculas" YOU THINK THAT'S FUNNY?Robert Barr, "The Adventure of the Second Swag"Stanley Rubinstein, "Sheer Luck Again"John Kendrick Bangs, "A Pragmatic Enigma"Anonymous, "Herlock Sholmes at It Again"Anthony Armstrong, "The Reigate Road Murder"William B. Kahn, "The Succored Beauty"Gregory Breitman, "The Marriage of Sherlock Holmes"E. F. Benson and Eustace H. Miles, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"Arthur Chapman, "The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes"George F. Forrest, "The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace"Robert L. Fish, "The Adventure of the Ascot Tie" CONTEMPORARY VICTORIANSColin Dexter, "A Case of Mis-Identity"Thomas Perry, "Startling Events in the Electrified City"Lyndsay Faye, "The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness"John Lutz, "The Infernal Machine"Peter Tremayne, "The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey"Daniel Stashower, "The Adventure of the Agitated Actress"Michael Moorcock, "The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger"Bill Crider, "The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard"June Thomson, "The Case of the Friesland Outrage"Carol Bugge, "The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor"Tanith Lee, "The Human Mystery"Anne Perry, "Hostage to Fortune"Jon Koons, "The Adventure of the Missing Countess"Rick Boyer, "The Adventure of Zolnay, The Aerialist"John Lescroart, "The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra" THE FOOTSTEPS OF A GIGANTIC AUTHORJulian Symons, "Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule...?"H. R. F. Keating, "A Trifling Affair"Barry Perowne, "Raffles: The Enigma of the Admiral's Hat"Barry Perowne, "Raffles on the Trail of the Hound"Edward D. Hoch, "The Cipher in the Sand"Kenneth Millar, "The South Sea Soup Co."Carolyn Wells, "The Adventure of the Clothes-Line"Dorothy B. Hughes, "Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin"Stuart M. Kaminsky, "The Man from Capetown"Manly Wade Wellman, "But Our Hero Was Not Dead"Stuart Palmer, "The Adventure of the Marked Man"
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