Andrew Glazzard
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The Case of Sherlock Holmes

Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction

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'You know my methods. Apply them, and it will be instructive to compare results.' Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four (1890) The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the stories afresh, sceptically probing Dr Watson's narratives and Holmes's often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle's life and works, and Doyle's literary sources, the book offer...