Cover: Sherlock Holmes, 1st Edition by Arthur Conan Doyle; Edited by John A. Hodgson

Sherlock Holmes

First  Edition©1994  Arthur Conan Doyle; Edited by John A. Hodgson

ISBN:9780312089450

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Featuring fifteen stories starring the most iconic detective in literature, this volume of Sherlock Holmes features concise commentary on how each story relates to the author, the series, and the detective genre as well as nine essays reflecting recent critical interest in Holmes and examining the stories from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives.

Table of Contents

  About This Book
    
  Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes: Biographical and Critical Contexts
    
PART I. THE MAJOR SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES
    
    From A Study in Scarlet
    A Scandal in Bohemia
    The Red-headed League
    A Case of Identity
    The Boscombe Valley Mystery
    The Man with the Twisted Lip
    The Blue Carbuncle
    The Speckled Band
    Silver Blaze
    The Musgrave Ritual
    The Final Problem
    The Empty House
    The Dancing Men
    Charles Augustus Milverton
    The Second Stain
    
PART II. CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ESSAYS
    
    Martin Priestman, Sherlock Holmes--The Series
    Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot
    Gian Paolo Caprettini, Sherlock Holmes: Ethics, Logic, and the Mask
    John A. Hodgson, The Recoil of "The Speckled Band": Detective Story and Detective Discourse
    Alastair Fowler, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Dancing Men and Women
    Stephen Knight, The Case of the Great Detective
    Catherine Belsey, Deconstructing the Text: Sherlock Holmes
    Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan, "The Speckled Band": The Construction of Woman in a Popular Text of Empire
    Audrey Jaffe, Detecting the Beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and "The Man with the Twisted Lip"
    
  Appendices
    A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyles Favorite Sherlock Holmes Stories
    Sherlock Holmes on Film
    Select Bibliography
    
  Index

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) studied medicine at Edinburgh University, but ultimately gave up medicine to pursue a career in writing both fiction and non-fiction.  His iconic sleuths, Holmes and Watson, have entertained generations of readers.

John A. Hodgson