The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide - Couverture rigide

Smith, Daniel

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ISBN 10 : 1845134583 ISBN 13 : 9781845134587

Editeur : Aurum, 2009

Synopsis

Aurum’s Agatha Christie Companion of 2005 was a sales success in both hardback and paperback, on both sides of the Atlantic. Now we follow up with a beautiful and lavishly illustrated book on one of the greatest and most enduringly popular literary characters of all time: Sherlock Holmes.

Illustrated throughout with more than 150 pictures – half in full colour – 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, and interviews with many original interviews with the actors who’ve played Holmes over the years.

This is a book aimed at both the Holmes aficionado and at the gift market – comprehensive without being nerdy, and nostalgic while also rigorously critical and not afraid to rank the better Holmes stories against the lesser.

Daniel Smith is a book publisher and author who lives in London.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Smith has written on subjects as diverse as Sherlock Holmes (The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide), serendipity (The Lucky Bugger's Casebook) and Cockney rhyming slang (The Language of London). When not buried in an archive somewhere in search of forgotten stories, he lives in East London with his wife, Rosie, and an assortment of fish. Despite his passionate interest in the Dig for Victory campaign, his own garden is, alas, not all that it might be. He is author of The Spade as Mighty as the Sword: The Story of World War Two's Dig for Victory Campaign, published by Aurum.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aurum
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845134583
• ISBN 13: 9781845134587
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible