The Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781474431293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

Andrew Glazzard

Opis

The Case of Sherlock Holmes' uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes saga.

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Texts and References; Introduction: The Art of Deduction; Part I: Finance; 1. Stone into Money; 2. The Roylotts of Stoke Moran; 3. The Guardians of Securities; Part II: Class; 4. The Pick of a Bad Lot; 5. The Fall of the House of Musgrave; 6. A Scandal in East Yorkshire; Part III: Family; 7. Singular Occurrence at a Wedding; 8. The Rock of Gibraltar; 9. The Discreetly Shadowed Corners; Part IV: Sex; 10. The Worst Man in London; 11. The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge; Part V: Race; 12. Nice, Amiable People!; 13. A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth; 14. The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood; Part VI: War; 15. This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear; 16. Do We Progress?; 17. The East Wind; Part VII: Secrecy; 18. That Secret History of a Nation; 19. Oaths and Secrets; 20. The Giant Rat of Sumatra; Conclusion: The Problem of Finality; Bibliography; Index.