Sherlock Holmes in America
By: edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781606713938
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Description: 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. A fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers.
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of Colonel Warburton's madness  -- Lyndsay Faye; title: Ghosts and the machine  -- Lloyd Rose; title: Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors  -- Steve Hockensmith; title: Flowers of Utah  -- Robert Pohle; title: Adventure of the coughing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.