Sherlock Holmes
The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays
First Edition
Publication Date: November 15, 1993
Paperback ISBN: 9780312089450
Pages: 12
The fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted in this volume are generally held to be the most significant, innovative and influential tales featuring Arthur Conan Doyles archetypal detective. Drawn principally from the first three Holmes collections, these selections are each followed by a concise
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Sherlock Holmes
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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 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
