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First publish date: 1984
Authors: Michael Hardwick
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The Sign of Four by 5902998|Arthur Conan Doyle book cover

📘 The Sign of Four

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of Four, follows Holmes and Watson as they investigate a mysterious treasure and a crime tied to a former convict.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles by 5902998|Arthur Conan Doyle book cover

📘 The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes by 5902998|Arthur Conan Doyle book cover

📘 The Return of Sherlock Holmes

A 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes short stories originally appearing in the Strand and Collier’s magazines.

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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by 5902998|Arthur Conan Doyle book cover

📘 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

A classic collection of Sherlock Holmes detective tales featuring the renowned sleuth, including adventures such as “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” and “The Adventure of the Three Gables.”

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The Valley of Fear by 5902998|Arthur Conan Doyle book cover

📘 The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes investigates a crime at a moated English country house, uncovering unusual clues and a mystery that reaches backward in time and into a Valley of Fear.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [adaptation] by 6270796|Kathy Wilmore book cover

📘 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [adaptation]

A collection of classic Sherlock Holmes detective stories retold by Kathy Wilmore.

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The Sherlock Holmes File by 10243137|Michael Pointer book cover

📘 The Sherlock Holmes File

> The figure in deerstalker and Inverness cape, smoking a calabash pipe and repeating "Elementary, my dear Watson," is familiar to all. Yet none of the features of this image of Sherlock Holmes are to be found in Conan Doyle, they have been introduced by artists who illustrated the stories and actors who played the part. >Some of the artistic and theatrical interpretations of Sherlock Holmes and his world were extraordinarily accurate; others were interesting misrepresentations of the original character. Here is a vivid demonstration of the great variety of imaginative ways that Sherlock Holmes has been seen in the entertainment media - films, the stage, television - and commercially - comics, cereal boxes, cigarette advertising, games, and so forth. Rare and hitherto unpublished posters, advertisements, and stills have been included. > Here is a sampling of the fascinating material to be found in this largest picture gallery of Holmes ever assembled: >"Which of You Is Holmes": a chapter on impersonators, comprising over twenty stage and at least thirty screen and television Holmeses, which includes comments from the actors on the problems of portraying him. "I want to make money on 'Holmes' quick, so as to be through with it," William Gillette is quoted as saying, and Alan Wheatley thought, "In my opinion he just seemed to be an insufferable prig," while today's Robert Stephens has said, "When I did it, it was more melancholic, more disillusioned." >An amazing collection of more than seventy pictures of Holmes in and out of disguise, in and out of Baker Street, with and without Watson, and particularly when tackling that demoniac dog in *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (a comparison of the seven film and two television adaptations of this best-known Sherlock Holmes story) >"Furnished Rooms to Let" shows and describes the various settings used in the dramatizations, both interiors of the famous consulting room and exteriors of Baker Street: including the versions of the confrontation there between the two Master Minds >The file even has a firsthand account of that unique expedition of 1968 when Holmes, Watson, and a handful of characters from the adventures toiled through Switzerland to re-enact the Holmes-Moriarty death struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

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The World of Sherlock Holmes by 2126551|Michael Harrison book cover

📘 The World of Sherlock Holmes

> 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. What was the scandal involving Queen Victoria's son and grandson? Why did Holmes visit the United States, and what did he do for Vanderbilt? Why did he remain silent about the identity of Jack the Ripper? What was the secret of the Vatican cameos? Why did the kings of Denmark, Sweden and Holland, the Sultan of Turkey, the Czar of Russia and the President of the United States confer on Sherlock Holmes their countries' highest decorations? >Mr. Harrison also sheds new light on Holmes' youth, including the unusual nature of his university career, his brilliant achievements at the top level of Victorian diplomacy and his close and curious relations with the Britsh crown.

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The Sherlock Holmes Companion by 12708948|Michael Hardwick book cover

📘 The Sherlock Holmes Companion

To the collector, to the Sherlockian historian, to anyone who believes in giving credit where credit is due, The Sherlock Holmes Companion is the book produced in 1962 by Michael and Mollie Hardwick, the first volume in the genre to which Daniel Smith is now contributing.

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Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes by 13697531|Mattias Boström book cover

📘 Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes

Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. But what made this fictional character into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In *The Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes,* Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Boström recreates the full story behind the legend for the first time. It includes tales of unexpected fortune, accidental romance and inheritances gone awry and tells of the actors, writers, readers and other players who have transformed Sherlock Holmes from the gentleman amateur of the Victorian era to the odd genius of today. From a young Arthur Conan Doyle sitting in a Scottish lecture hall taking notes on his medical professor's powers of observation to the pair of modern-day fans who brainstormed the idea behind the TV sensation *Sherlock*, from the publishing world's first literary agent to the Georgian princess who showed up at the Conan Doyle estate and altered a legacy, the book follows the men and women who have created and perpetuated the myth. Told in fast-paced, novelistic prose, *The Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes* is a singular celebration of the most famous detective in the world.

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The Sherlock Holmes book by 4656246|David Stuart Davies book cover

📘 The Sherlock Holmes book

A digest of Sherlock Holmes' most famous investigations and the man who chronicled them, Dr. John Watson.

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Sherlock Holmes. The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays by 5902998|Arthur Conan Doyle book cover

📘 Sherlock Holmes. The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays

A companion volume that pairs Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes tales—from “A Study in Scarlet” to “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”—with a collection of contemporary critical essays exploring the mysteries’ literary and cultural significance.

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Sherlock Holmes by 6409239|H. R. F. Keating book cover

📘 Sherlock Holmes

See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14855633W

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