Murder, My Dear Watson
Subtitle: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Contributors: Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor); Jon Lellenberg (Editor); Daniel Stashower (Editor)
Edition: First Carroll & Graf edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786710812
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Watson, John H. (Fictitious character); Mystery & Detective - General; English Mystery & Suspense Fiction; American Mystery & Suspense Fiction; Mystery/Suspense; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious c; Fiction; Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British; Private investigators; Anthologies (multiple authors); Watson, John H. (Fictitious ch; Detective and mystery stories,; Detective and mystery stories, American
First sentence: THE MOST SPECTACULAR natural event of our times was of course the Great Comet of 1882.
Description: Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy—in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this new collection of original tales. In the Scottish Highlands and Afghanistan, in the cases of a dying doctor and a mooning sentry, of a black basalt bird and white chalk horse, popular contemporary mystery writers—among them Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Anne Perry and Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce—craftily celebrate the mind, methods, and manners of the peerless Sherlock Holmes. 

In addition, with one foot in the Victorian age and the other in the computer age, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers Sherlockians in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet," while in "A Sherlockian Library" editors Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart."
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Notes: US/CAN