Sherlock Holmes in America
By: edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower.
Contributors: Greenberg, Martin Harry.; Lellenberg, Jon L.; Stashower, Daniel.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781602393523
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Sherlock Holmes makes his American debut in this fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers. The world's greatest detective and his famous sidekick Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they fight crime all over nineteenth-century North America. From the bustling neighborhoods of New York City and Washington, D.C., to sunny yet sinister cities like San Francisco on the West Coast, the world's best-loved British sleuth will face some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer, and meet some of America's most famous figures along the way. Each original story is written in the extraordinary tradition of Doyle's best work, yet each comes with a unique American twist that is sure to satisfy and exhilarate both Sherlock Holmes purists and those who always wished that Holmes could nab the nefarious closer to home. This is a must-read for any mystery fan and for those who have followed Holmes' illustrious career over the waterfall and back again.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "American, as you perceive" / Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower --; title: Case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye --; title: Ghosts and the machine / Lloyd Rose --; title: Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors / Steve Hockensmith --; title: Flowers of Utah / Robert Pohle --; title: Adventure of the coughing dentist / Loren D. Estleman --; title: Minister's missing daughter / Victoria Thompson --; title: Case of Colonel Crockett's violin / Gillian Linscott --; title: Adventure of the White City / Bill Crider --; title: Recalled to life / Paula Cohen --; title: Seven walnuts / Daniel Stashower --; title: Adventure of the Boston Dromio / Matthew Pearl --; title: Case of the rival queens / Carolyn Wheat --; title: Adventure of the missing three quarters / Jon L. Breen --; title: Song at twilight / Michael Walsh --; title: Moriarty, Moran, and more: Anti-hibernian sentiment in the Canon / Michael Walsh --; title: How the creator of Sherlock Holmes brought him to America / Christopher Redmond --; title: Romance of America / A. Conan Doyle.