The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime / Black

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original)

Presenting Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology,Â The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Sherlockian tales ever assembledâ€”now in a deluxe hardcover edition, perfect for the collector and gift markets.

Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes.Â Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyleâ€™s 1887 novellaÂ A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him.Â

Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter); and parodies by Conan Doyleâ€™s contemporaries A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, and O. Henry, not to mention genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock.Â

No matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoyThe Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories.

Including
- Over a centuryâ€™s worth of cases, from Conan Doyleâ€™s 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaimanâ€™s â€œThe Case of Death and Honeyâ€ (2011)
- Â Appearances by those other great detectives Hercule Poirot and C. Auguste Dupin
- Â 15 Edgar Awardâ€“winning authors and 5 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters
- Â Stories by Laurie R. King, Colin Dexter, Anthony Burgess, Anne Perry, Stephen King, P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, and many, many more.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-27
Format	Kindle eBook

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original)

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