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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  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