Author : Matthew Bunson
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
A guide to Sherlock Holmes and his various incarnations in literature and film includes entries on every case and character.
Author : Jack Tracy
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 9780380464906
Author : Matthew Bunson
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1997
Category : DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY STORIES - Dictionaries
ISBN : 9780028616797
More than 100 years after his first appearance, Sherlock Holmes is a literary phenomenon without comparison. This first comprehensive compendium to all the stories, films, characters, and clues from the Canon provides synopses of every case in the stories and novels, profiles of notable figures, descriptions of the real cases that inspired Conan Doyle, and more. 113 illustrations. Maps.
Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230107354
Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.
Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1980-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824720292
"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."
Author : Neil McCaw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1538123169
Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a variety of information about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, as both narratives and also cultural phenomena. The volume will help readers look deeper into those stories and the meanings of the various reference points within them, as well as achieving a deeper understanding of the range of contexts of Holmes, Conan Doyle, and detective fiction as a genre. This book examines the broad global Sherlock Holmes phenomenon related to the ways in which the stories have been adapted into a range of other media, as well as the cultural status of Holmes all over the world. Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393059154
Collects Doyle's short stories that star Sherlock Holmes, each of which is annotated to provide literary and cultural details about Victorian society, and also includes biographies of Holmes, Dr. Watson, and the author himself.
Author : Kay Ann Cassell
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1555708595
Search skills of today bear little resemblance to searches through print publications. Reference service has become much more complex than in the past, and is in a constant state of flux. Learning the skill sets of a worthy reference librarian can be challenging, unending, rewarding, and-- yes, fun.
Author : James O'Brien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199794960
In The Scientific Sherlock Holmes, James O'Brien provides an in-depth look at Holmes's use of science in his investigations.
Author : Yuichi Hirayama
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780923813
East meets West as one of the most talented British Sherlockian scholars, John Hall and a Japanese member of the Baker Street Irregulars, Hirayama Yuichi argue important Sherlockian questions. One offers the other three questions, and the other answers them with all their Sherlockian knowledge. They are serious Sherlockian battles between an English Knight and Japanese samurai! This volume also includes Hirayama's Sherlockian papers published in The Musgraves, The Baker Street Journal, The Canadian Holmes and The Shoso-in Bulletin.
