Sherlock Holmes in America /

Sherlock Holmes in America / edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower. - New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2009. - vi, 378 p. ; 24 cm.

"A Herman Graf book."

Introduction: "American, as you perceive" / Case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Ghosts and the machine / Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors / Flowers of Utah / Adventure of the coughing dentist / Minister's missing daughter / Case of Colonel Crockett's violin / Adventure of the White City / Recalled to life / Seven walnuts / Adventure of the Boston Dromio / Case of the rival queens / Adventure of the missing three quarters / Song at twilight / Moriarty, Moran, and more: Anti-hibernian sentiment in the Canon / How the creator of Sherlock Holmes brought him to America / Romance of America / Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower -- Lyndsay Faye -- Lloyd Rose -- Steve Hockensmith -- Robert Pohle -- Loren D. Estleman -- Victoria Thompson -- Gillian Linscott -- Bill Crider -- Paula Cohen -- Daniel Stashower -- Matthew Pearl -- Carolyn Wheat -- Jon L. Breen -- Michael Walsh -- Michael Walsh -- Christopher Redmond -- A. Conan Doyle.

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.

1602393524 9781602393523 : $24.95 ($27.95 Can)

2009000880


Detective and mystery stories, American.
Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Watson, John H. (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

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