Sherlock Holmes
Subtitle: The Unauthorized Biography
By: Nick Rennison.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780871139474
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, -- Sir, -- 1859-1930 -- Characters -- Sherlock Holmes.; Doyle, Arthur Conan, -- Sir, -- 1859-1930 -- Characters -- John H. Watson.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: He has been called a genius and a fraud, a hero and an addict. He advised kings in their glittering palaces, then disappeared into the darkest alleys of London’s criminal underworld. He was (and remains) a global icon, but he could pass his most ardent fan on the street without a flicker of recognition. Who was this Sherlock Holmes? 

With an attention to detail that would make his subject envious, Nick Rennison gathers the clues of a life lived among the stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Oscar Wilde to Sigmund Freud, and uncovers startling, previously unknown information. How did a Cambridge drop-out and bit player on the London stage transform himself into a renowned “consulting detective”? Did he know the identity of “Jack the Ripper”? When did Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty first cross paths? To where did Sherlock Holmes disappear after his presumed “death” in 1891? 

Sherlock Holmes answers these questions and many more as it careens through the most infamous crimes and historic events of the era, all in pursuit of the real man behind the greatest detective in modern fiction—and, just perhaps, non-fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-257) and index.
U.S. edition
Table of contents: title: 'My ancestors were country squires'; title: 'This inhospitable town'; title: 'You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive'; title: 'He is the Napoleon of crime'; title: 'You should publish an account of the case'; title: 'I've had to do with fifty murderers'; title: 'The many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured'; title: 'I should never marry; title: '; title: 'I travelled for two years in Tibet'; title: 'I then passed through Persia; title: '; title: 'I hear of Sherlock everywhere'; title: 'Occasional indiscretions of his own'; title: 'A small farm upon the downs'; title: 'There's an east wind coming'; title: 'The greatest mystery for last'.