The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories Arthur Conan Doyle ebook
ISBN: 9780393059168
Page: 1878
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Format: pdf

I have never striven for it and . So, since some folks asked me to elaborate: the last section of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes that I am snuggling reading is "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes," which, not to put too fine a point on it, kind of sucks. I have decided its time to get my hands on the complete set of Sherlock Holmes stories (the 4 novels and I believe 56 short stories). Readers who want to go back to the original source material will be best served by Leslie S. (In fact, Leslie Klinger, author of THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES, has called THE VALLEY OF FEAR "the first real 'hard-boiled' detective story.") 10 August 2009 2:15 pm · JRSM said Wow! Dracula is the single novel most frequently made into a movie, while Sherlock Holmes, the subject of 56 short stories and four novels, is the character most frequently brought to the screen (with Dracula a close second). I would highly recommend Klinger's The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased edition) (Vol. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. I have a couple more to read, and then I'm done with the original Conan Doyle short stories--fortunately, the annotated novels came today, as mentioned above, so I get to curl up with A Study in Scarlet tonight. Book Giveaway - The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Short Stories. One of the many introductory essays to the ASH even quotes Conan Doyle dismissing continuity as unnecessary: "In short stories it has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. Klinger, A Study in Sherlock is an anthology of short stories inspired by the original Conan Doyle stories. Be sure to check over at Bookish Ruth: Book Giveaway. I was wondering what you think of the new annotated Sherlock Holmes by Klinger, which seems to take a deliberately softer tone about some issues than Baring-Gould? The four essays complete thus far include the general literary and biographical introduction piece, a deep analysis of “The Mazarin Stone,” another analysis of “The Three Gables,” and an evaluation of both “The Blanched Soldier” and “The Lion's Mane. For example, the one on “The Blanched Soldier” and “The Lion's Mane” addresses Doyle's decision to tell these two stories from Holmes's first person perspective, wholly eliminating Watson from the narrative. Http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3500515913_71867d950e_o. Two years later The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Both have been the A hint of what was to come appeared in 1976 when Nicholas Meyer added Bram Stoker as a character in The West End Horror, a new Sherlock Holmes story. Unlike other collections such While King is the author of the execrable Mary Russell tales (oh how I loathe those books) which doesn't bode well, Klinger is the author of the Edgar Award winning The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes as well as editor of the ten volume Sherlock Holmes Reference Library. This book contains all the 56 stories written about Sherlock Holmes, both before and after the creator's attempt to dispatch him in print.