Sherlock Holmes
Published on 14. March 2019
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-910821-24-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle created the pipe-smoking, deer-stalkered character, Sherlock Holmes, he has become a part of popular culture for generations, and here every aspect of the legendary detective is investigated. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip into. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide-range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure. AUTHOR: Nicholas Utechin is an Honorary member of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and edited its journal from 1976-2006. He is also a member of the American Baker Street Irregulars society and is distantly related to the great film portrayer of Holmes, Basil Rathbone.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-910821-24-4 (9781910821244)
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Nicholas Utechin is an Honorary member of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and edited its journal from 1976-2006. He is also a member of the American Baker Street Irregulars society and is distantly related to the great film portrayer of Holmes, Basil Rathbone. Nick is a freelance journalist and broadcaster and was a senior producer on BBC Radio 4, working on such programmes as Today, Any Questions?, Call Nick Ross, All In The Mind and Feedback. He lives in Oxford.
Content
Introduction
The Doyle Family - Background of the author
Literary beginnings - Conan Doyle at school
Dr Joseph Bell - Mentor and model for Holmes
The doctor who wanted to write - Conan Doyle sets up practice in Southsea
Who came before? - Other literary detectives
A Study in Scarlet - How Sherlock Holmes was born
A slow birth process - Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887
Holmes described - Appearance, character and background
Watson described - Appearance, character and background
Holmes' Baker Street - Numbers and complications
So many choices - The search for 221B
The Sign of (the) Four - The story of the follow-up novel
Evocative of its time - Conan Doyle's London
The Strand Magazine - Reading for the masses
Sidney Paget - The first great Holmes illustrator
The human side - Re-introduction of Holmes
Central attraction - Why Holmes still works today
Deduction - It's a science
Mycroft Holmes - Sherlock's big brother
Mrs Hudson - The long-suffering landlady
Scotland Yarders - Lestrade and all the rest
Professor Moriarty - The Napoleon of Crime
Women and Holmes - What he really thought of them
Holmes' literary tastes - What he reads and what he recommends
Holmes' musical tastes - The detective takes time to relax
A rare actor - Sherlock Holmes in disguise
Town versus country - Holmes, the city-dweller
Expert monographs - Holmes, the writer
Great quotations - Holmes, the brilliant conversationalist
The early plots - Short story breakdown, Part 1
Holmes is critical - Watson's writing analysed
Increasing returns - Conan Doyle and his considerable earnings
Reichenbach beckoned - The killing of Sherlock Holmes
Start of something - The Holmes phenomenon
First parodies - Sherlock Holmes becomes a copied man
The footlights - Holmes takes to the stage
Sherlock Holmes - The play that became Gillette's great success
The Hound looms - The return of the detective
It was inevitable - The story of the real return
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Short story breakdown, Part 2
The start of scholarship - Something new in detective fiction
The bright Ronald Knox - 'Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes'
Baffled! - Holmes in the silent film era
Output dwindles - The story of writing His Last Bow
His Last Bow - Short story breakdown, Part 3
Post Gillette's masterpiece - More Holmes on stage, Part 1
Spiritualism dominates - Conan Doyle and his religious beliefs
The final demise - Conan Doyle's last decade of writing
The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes - Short story breakdown, Part 4
Mystery stories - And yet another three?
The 'talkies' - The arrival of film with sound
Rathbone arrives - A triumph before typecasting
Rathbone runs away - The Rathbone-Bruce partnership ends
Up to date - More Holmes on stage, Part 2
The birth of societies - With their roots firmly in scholarship
An insatiable appetite - Holmes and modern media
Enduring appeal - Holmes in the 21st century
Epilogue - Remembering Conan Doyle
Bibliography
Index
The Doyle Family - Background of the author
Literary beginnings - Conan Doyle at school
Dr Joseph Bell - Mentor and model for Holmes
The doctor who wanted to write - Conan Doyle sets up practice in Southsea
Who came before? - Other literary detectives
A Study in Scarlet - How Sherlock Holmes was born
A slow birth process - Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887
Holmes described - Appearance, character and background
Watson described - Appearance, character and background
Holmes' Baker Street - Numbers and complications
So many choices - The search for 221B
The Sign of (the) Four - The story of the follow-up novel
Evocative of its time - Conan Doyle's London
The Strand Magazine - Reading for the masses
Sidney Paget - The first great Holmes illustrator
The human side - Re-introduction of Holmes
Central attraction - Why Holmes still works today
Deduction - It's a science
Mycroft Holmes - Sherlock's big brother
Mrs Hudson - The long-suffering landlady
Scotland Yarders - Lestrade and all the rest
Professor Moriarty - The Napoleon of Crime
Women and Holmes - What he really thought of them
Holmes' literary tastes - What he reads and what he recommends
Holmes' musical tastes - The detective takes time to relax
A rare actor - Sherlock Holmes in disguise
Town versus country - Holmes, the city-dweller
Expert monographs - Holmes, the writer
Great quotations - Holmes, the brilliant conversationalist
The early plots - Short story breakdown, Part 1
Holmes is critical - Watson's writing analysed
Increasing returns - Conan Doyle and his considerable earnings
Reichenbach beckoned - The killing of Sherlock Holmes
Start of something - The Holmes phenomenon
First parodies - Sherlock Holmes becomes a copied man
The footlights - Holmes takes to the stage
Sherlock Holmes - The play that became Gillette's great success
The Hound looms - The return of the detective
It was inevitable - The story of the real return
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Short story breakdown, Part 2
The start of scholarship - Something new in detective fiction
The bright Ronald Knox - 'Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes'
Baffled! - Holmes in the silent film era
Output dwindles - The story of writing His Last Bow
His Last Bow - Short story breakdown, Part 3
Post Gillette's masterpiece - More Holmes on stage, Part 1
Spiritualism dominates - Conan Doyle and his religious beliefs
The final demise - Conan Doyle's last decade of writing
The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes - Short story breakdown, Part 4
Mystery stories - And yet another three?
The 'talkies' - The arrival of film with sound
Rathbone arrives - A triumph before typecasting
Rathbone runs away - The Rathbone-Bruce partnership ends
Up to date - More Holmes on stage, Part 2
The birth of societies - With their roots firmly in scholarship
An insatiable appetite - Holmes and modern media
Enduring appeal - Holmes in the 21st century
Epilogue - Remembering Conan Doyle
Bibliography
Index