The Game Is Afoot
Subtitle: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994 April
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780312104689
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Mystery & Detective - Sherlock Holmes; Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Detective and mystery stories,; Detective and mystery stories, English; England; Fiction; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious c; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Parodies, imitations, etc; Private investigators; Mystery/Suspense
First sentence: Sir Conan Doyle's own attitude toward his best known character has always been deprecatory.
Table of contents: title: Sherlock Holmes / Frederic Dorr Steele --; title: The Recollections of Captain Wilkie / Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The Original of Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Harold Emery Jones --; title: Mr. Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Joseph Bell --; title: The Singular adventure of the unexpected doorscraper / Kenneth Grahame --; title: The Adventure of the two collaborators / James M. Barrie --; title: The Mystery of Pinkham's diamond stud / John Kendrick Bangs --; title: The Umbrosa burglary / R.C. Lehmann --; title: A La Sherlock Holmes / Charles Loomis --; title: The Sign of the 400 / R.K. Munkittrick --; title: The Adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells --; title: Sherlock Holmes umpires baseball / Anonymous --; title: The Adventure of the circular room / August Derleth --; title: The Adventure of the marked man / Stuart Palmer --; title: The Strange case of the megatherium thefts / S.C. Roberts --; title: The Adventure of the unique hamlet / Vincent Starrett --; title: The Enchanted garden / H.F. Heard --; title: But our hero was not dead / Manly Wade Wellman --; title: Sherlock Holmes and the Drood mystery / Edmund Pearson --; title: In the island of Uffa --; title: The Tibetan adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Amanda Russell --; title: The Histrionic Holmes / Marvin Kaye --; title: How Holmes came to play the violin / Jacques Barzun --; title: The Really final solution / Nick Pollotta --; title: The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Chapman --; title: The Succored beauty / William B. Kahn --; title: The Adventure of the second swag / Luke Sharp --; title: An Irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock --; title: The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / O. Henry --; title: The Stolen cigar case / Bret Harte --; title: A Letter from Mycroft Holmes / Jon White --; title: The Murder of Conan Doyle / Ray Russell --; title: The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton papers / John Dickson Carr --; title: Journal of a Ghurka physician / Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater --; title: The Struldbrugg reaction / John Sutherland --; title: The Moriarty gambit / Fritz Leiber --; title: The Adventure ofilemma of the distressed Savoyard / Crighton Sellars --; title: The Adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer --; title: The Theft of the Persian slipper / Edward D. Hoch --; title: The Dynamics of an asteroid / Robert Bloch --; title: Daydream / Basil Rathbone.