Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786710748 ISBN 13: 9780786710744

Publisher: Running Press Adult, 2002

Synopsis

The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News). Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes. Includes new tales by:

• Sharyn McCrumb
• Loren D. Estleman
• Carolyn Wheat
• Malachi Saxon
• Jon L. Breen
• Bill Crider
• Colin Bruce
• Lenore Carroll
• Barry Day
• Daniel Stashower

And brilliantly insightful essays including:

• Christopher Redmond on illuminating the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet"
• Editors Lellenberg and Stashower's "A Sherlockian Library" details fifty essential books for the Arthur Conan Doyle fan
• Philip A. Shreffler's essay explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart"

About this title

About the Author

Martin H. Greenberg, one of crime fiction's most awarded editors and anthologists, coedited The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jon Lellenberg, the executor of the estate of the late Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Daniel Stashower is the author of the Edgar Award-winning biography Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. Greenberg, Lellenberg, and Stashower also edited the widely praised anthology Murder in Baker Street.

From Booklist

Modern authors can't stop writing about Sherlock Holmes. This collection of 11 short stories brings together some of the best recent efforts. The authors represented, all established veterans of the genre, include such diverse talents as Anne Perry, Edward Hoch, Stuart Kaminsky, and Loren Estleman. Except for some slips into modern language, the stories are uniformly satisfying. In addition to a pace that would delight the energetic Holmes, the stories have clever plots and strong characters, including vivid portraits of historical figures such as Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, and Sir Richard Burton. The action hinges not only on the ancient sins of greed and lust but also on "new" technologies such as photography and motion pictures. This collection should be required reading for anyone planning to write about Holmes, his friends, and his foes. Unlike so many latter-day Holmes tales, done in by rambling dialogue and leaden masses of detail, the stories collected here remind readers of the elements of Conan Doyle's greatness: difficult puzzles, vivid but selective detail, and tight dialogue. John Rowen
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About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786710748
• ISBN 13: 9780786710744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Greenberg Martin H., Lellenberg Jon L., Stashower Daniel