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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The World of Sherlock Holmes The World of Sherlock Holmes Michael Harrison > A triumph of dedicated detective work, set against the romantic nostalgic splendor of Victorian England, *The World of Sherlock Holmes* reveals a wealth of unsuspected facts about the master sleuth… OL1182599W
Eliminate the Impossible Eliminate the Impossible Alistair Duncan > Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most famous fictional private detective, is known to many purely through his appearances on film. However he had a life on the page long before he made it to the silve… OL15671022W
Sherlock Holmes by gas-lamp Sherlock Holmes by gas-lamp Philip A. Shreffler 423 p. : 24 cm OL18295393W
The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes Dick Riley,Pam McAllister Do you know Conan Doyle's original name for Sherlock Holmes? The real-life inspiration for Holmes? Who created the visual image most of us have of the great detective? Whom Jeremy Brett first played?… OL1899664W
The great detective The great detective Zach Dundas 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 sl… OL20002684W
Sherlock Holmes Companion Sherlock Holmes Companion Daniel Smith > *The Sherlock Holmes Companion* contains all the necessary information to illuminate the great detective's work, from the early canon to the more recent incarnations of Holmes by Benedict Cumberbat… OL21544532W
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Vincent Starrett This work has long been out of print. In fact, those few copies found in the last decade have often brought prices usually attached to rare books and curiosa. The original edition was first published… OL2212259W
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street William Stuart Baring-Gould Although millions know of Sherlock Holmes through the chronicles of his exploits written by Dr. Watson, it is only now that, owing to his recent death, the full biography and facts of his life can be… OL2905449W
The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook Peter Haining Fifty years of occasional articles, newspaper cuttings, letters, memoirs, anecdotes, pictures, photographs and drawings relating to the great detective OL3151688W
Private eyes Private eyes Robert A. Baker Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Chandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones. OL3236242W
The Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia The Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia Orlando Park An Encyclopedia of Their Affairs >A complete guide to the people, towns, streets, estates, railway stations, the objects--in fact, everything--in the 56 stories and 4 novels making up the work of … OL3954345W
My Dear Holmes My Dear Holmes Gavin Brend > Baker Street is the only street in the world which is famous wherever the English language is spoken as being the home of a character in fiction. Yet no one has so far been able to identify the hou… OL3954452W
The street was mine The street was mine Megan E. Abbott "This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerg… OL5731713W
Sherlock Holmes Detected Sherlock Holmes Detected Ian McQueen >*Sherlock Holmes Detected* examines the life and career of the famous detective, and of his faithful friend Dr Watson, through the pages of the four novels not forgetting, of course, the fifty-six s… OL7001135W