Friends, this is truly more than just another "biography" of Sherlock Holmes. H.R.F.Keating has taken a refreshingly unique approach. In his writing about the life of Holmes, he has confined himself to the authenticated facts to which Dr Watson, alone, was in a position to share with the world, but to these, he has added a wealth of information about the cultural and historical happenings of the day. Keating also provides a rich array of 136 drawings, photographs, diagrams, and illustrations (including reprints of actual newspaper and magazine articles of the day)depicting many events, personalities, and circumstances with which Mr. Holmes would have been surrounded during his tenure as The World's First Consulting Detective. Through Mr. Keating's book, we are privileged to be vicariously present at such events as the execution of Dr. Prichard in Glasgow or in the courtroom where the Prince of Wales testifies in his defense of the suggestion that he might have fathered Violet Caroline Mordaunt's (wife of Sir Charles Mordaunt) unborn child. An exceptionally entertaining and informative read. Hard cover, dust jacket, 160 pages, 136 illustrations, copious references.

The Illustrious Clients' Second Case-Notes

Possibly the best way to describe this production from this talented and creative Indianapolis scion, The Illustrious Clients, is to quote a review given by Roger Johnson, the editor of The District Messenger, the monthly newsletter of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

"The Illustrious of Indianapolis have long been noted for their excellent and varied collections of essays, beginning with The Illustrious Clients Casebook in 1947. Now comes The Illustrious Clients Second Case-Notes, edited by Steven T. Doyle and Mark A. Gagen. the cream of this 94-page paperback is a trio of essays on Holmes's character by Pamela Wampler, Steven Doyle and Patricia Ward, followed closely by Donald Curtis's diagnosis of 'The Musgrave Ritual' and Paul Herbert's observations on 'The Priory School.' Verses, puzzles and a sprinkling of lighter articles make up the rest of this stimulating volume."

The Illustrious Clients' Second Case-Notes
Author: The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis
Item#: Bk/Notes2
Price: US$ 12.95

The Detectives' Album collects stories from one of the longest-running series in crime fiction published from 1868 to 1933 in the Australian Journal. The writing of these exciting "first-hand" accounts of crime and detection is so comfortable for Sherlockians that one would almost believe that Watson had moved to Australia to write them. The cases were authored under the nom de plume, W.W.(W??). These short story narratives are ostensibly related as "first-hand" experiences by a member of the Victoria (Australia) police force, but true identity of the author was kept a secret by the magazine for years possibly to preserve the ‘true crime' credibility of these engrossing stories. Actually, these cases were the creation of the fertile mind of Mary Helena Fortune - a remarkable feat for any author of the late 19th and early 20th century, but especially remarkable for a woman writer in those times. The author drew upon the experience of her marriage to a goldfields mounted trooper, the result being what we would now term ‘police procedurals.' She was probably the first woman to write stories centred on, and narrated by a police detective; she was certainly the first woman to make a literary specialty of crime fiction. For the first time her crime stories are collected for a modern mystery-loving audience in The Detectives' Album.
Hard cover, 214 pages, Dust Jacket with most attractive art.

A little out of our line, but (we love graphic novels) . . .
Selected Works Edgar Allan Poe's in Graphic Form
for fans of mystery and the macabre

"The Raven," The Tell-Tale Heart," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and ten other Poe classics presented and illustrated by such great artists as J. B. Bonivert, Rick Geary, and Mark Nelson! A real joy for Poe fans and general mystery buffs! Try it, you'll like it! 136 Pages.

 

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GraphicClassics' Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Various talented writers and artists
Item#: Bk/PoeGraph
Price: US$ 7.95