The Baker Street Reader
Subtitle: Cornerstone Writings About Sherlock Holmes (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: May 23, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780313241062
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Doyle, Arthur Conan; 1859-1930; Characters; Detective and mystery stories, English; Doyle, Arthur Conan,; History and criticism; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Private investigators in literature; Sherlock Holmes; Sir,
First sentence: . . . The impression that Holmes was a real person of flesh and blood may have been intensified by his frequent appearance on the stage.