The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide - Couverture rigide

Smith, Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781314047 ISBN 13 : 9781781314043

Editeur : Aurum, 2014

Synopsis

A beautiful and lavishly illustrated book on one of the greatest and most enduringly popular literary characters of all time: Sherlock Holmes. Since it's original printing five years ago, we are re-issuing The Sherlock Holmes Companion with a full update of all the exciting detective developments from both the small and big screen as well as further details on all the major characters and locations. Illustrated throughout with more than 150 pictures ranging from period engravings and book jackets to modern-day location shots and film stills from TV adaptations, this is a compendious guide to all the stories, their author and the enigmatic pipe-smoking creation at their heart. Daniel Smith's witty and informed text provides plot summaries of every single Sherlock Holmes story, potted biographies of Holmes, Moriarty, Watson and of course Conan Doyle. Interviews with actors and contributors who've helped bring the great detective to life over the years, including a new interview with Mark Gatiss who not only plays Mycroft Holmes but is also co-creator of the BBC series Sherlock. This is a book aimed at both the Holmes aficionado and at the gift market - comprehensive and nostalgic while also rigorously critical and not afraid to rank the better Holmes stories against the lesser.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

DANIEL SMITH is a writer and book editor born in Wallington, Surrey (one of the settings in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box). He became a Holmes devotee when still a child, a passion that remained through an English degree and beyond. He now lives in East London with his wife and has more film versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles than he knows what to do with.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aurum
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781314047
• ISBN 13: 9781781314043
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224