num_pages: 222
description: Long considered one of the benchmark works of Holmesian scholarship, this richly informative biography of the great fictional detective was first published in 1933. Dr. Julian Wolff, revered Commissionaire of the Baker Street Irregulars, call this "the greatest book about Sherlock Holmes ever written."
language: English
title: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
titlecomplete: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
genres: Classics, Books About Books, Mystery, Literary Criticism, Detective, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Victorian, Crime
ratings_count: 911
publisher: Otto Penzler Books