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Conan Doyle detective: true crimes investigated by the creator of Sherlock Holmes / Peter Costello.

Title
Conan Doyle detective: true crimes investigated by the creator of Sherlock Holmes / Peter Costello.
Author
Costello, Peter
Publication
New York : Carroll & Graf, 2006.

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Description
x, 326 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., photos., ports.; 20 cm.
Summary
We now know that Arthur Conan Doyle did not rely on imagination alone for the amazing cases tackled by his hero, Sherlock Holmes. The author draws on new research to follow the tracks Conan Doyle left in the real world of crime. His fictional creations were the direct result of their author's own experiences as a detective and criminologist.
Subject
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 > Characters > Sherlock Holmes
  • Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
  • Authors, Scottish > Biography
  • Criminal investigation > Great Britain > History
  • Detectives > Great Britain > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • History.
Note
  • First published by Robinson, as 'The real world of Sherlock Holmes', 1991.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references (p. 298-326)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1 A Detective Calls 1 -- 2 Dr Doyle and Mr Holmes 12 -- 3 The Chamber of Horrors 18 -- 4 By Every Post a Call for Help 35 -- 5 Strange Studies from Life 48 -- 6 The Mystery at Moat House Farm 66 -- 7 The Club of Strange Crimes 71 -- 8 The Trail of Jack the Ripper 79 -- 9 The Persecution of George Edalji 95 -- 10 Stolen: The Irish Crown Jewels 133 -- 11 The Langham Hotel Mystery 142 -- 12 The Vanished Dane 147 -- 13 Was Crippen Innocent? 150 -- 14 The Case of Oscar Slater 153 -- 15 Into the Valley of Fear: Crime in America 171 -- 16 The Bluebeard of the Bath 190 -- 17 The Errant Knight 197 -- 18 Ned Kelly and Fisher's Ghost: Crime in Australasia 206 -- 19 New Light on Old Crimes 214 -- 20 Conan Doyle and the Motor-Bandit 227 -- 21 The Strange Death of the General's Wife 233 -- 22 Death Beside the Sea 242 -- 23 The Crowborough Chicken Farm Murder 249 -- 24 The Case of the Missing Lady 254 -- 25 The Zoo Park Murder 265 -- 26 A Peculiar Death at Umtali 276 -- 27 The Cobbler and the Fish-Pedlar 284 -- Epilogue: The Files are Closed 289.
ISBN
  • 0786718552 (pbk.)
  • 9780786718559 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007273005
OCLC
  • 75959804
  • SCSB-11035978
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library