Status
Available
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Publication
Skyhorse Publishing (A Herman Graf Book)
Pages
378
Description
From the bustling neighborhoods of New York City and Washington, D.C., to sunny yet sinister cities like San Francisco on the West Coast, the world's best-loved British sleuth will face some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer, and meet some of America's most famous figures along the way. A fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers.
Description
Table of Contents:
Introduction: "American, as you perceive" / Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower --
Case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye --
Ghosts and the machine / Lloyd Rose --
Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors / Steve Hockensmith --
Flowers of Utah / Robert Pohle --
Adventure of the coughing dentist / Loren D. Estleman --
Minister's missing daughter / Victoria Thompson --
Case of Colonel Crockett's violin / Gillian Linscott --
Adventure of the White City / Bill Crider --
Recalled to life / Paula Cohen --
Seven walnuts / Daniel Stashower --
Adventure of the Boston Dromio / Matthew Pearl --
Case of the rival queens / Carolyn Wheat --
Adventure of the missing three quarters / Jon L. Breen --
Song at twilight / Michael Walsh --
Moriarty, Moran, and more: Anti-hibernian sentiment in the Canon / Michael Walsh --
How the creator of Sherlock Holmes brought him to America / Christopher Redmond --
Romance of America / A. Conan Doyle.
Introduction: "American, as you perceive" / Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower --
Case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye --
Ghosts and the machine / Lloyd Rose --
Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors / Steve Hockensmith --
Flowers of Utah / Robert Pohle --
Adventure of the coughing dentist / Loren D. Estleman --
Minister's missing daughter / Victoria Thompson --
Case of Colonel Crockett's violin / Gillian Linscott --
Adventure of the White City / Bill Crider --
Recalled to life / Paula Cohen --
Seven walnuts / Daniel Stashower --
Adventure of the Boston Dromio / Matthew Pearl --
Case of the rival queens / Carolyn Wheat --
Adventure of the missing three quarters / Jon L. Breen --
Song at twilight / Michael Walsh --
Moriarty, Moran, and more: Anti-hibernian sentiment in the Canon / Michael Walsh --
How the creator of Sherlock Holmes brought him to America / Christopher Redmond --
Romance of America / A. Conan Doyle.
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
378 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
151074441X / 9781510744417
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LibraryThing member Jean_Sexton
Anthologies generally take longer for me to finish because the stories don't connect and there isn't that "I must find out what happens next" effect. This was an uneven anthology with generally good stories, but the ones that didn't ring true really threw me. There are fourteen stories, three
The final problem for me was the number of typographical issues in the Kindle edition. Words were run together; I suspect many had something to do with words that were hyphenated at the end of a line. I've seen the same problem when pulling text from a PDF into a text document. A spell check would have caught them, but obviously wasn't done.
If you like mysteries that involve Sherlock Holmes, I think you would find the book interesting. The stories are not pastiches, but have the tone of each individual author. Tackle it with an open mind and give it some leeway for the typos if you choose the Kindle version.
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essays, and an introduction. My least favorite was Daniel Stashower's "The Seven Walnuts" where Sherlock Holmes doesn't even appear. I like Houdini, but I felt cheated. On the other hand, Victoria Thompson's "The Minister's Missing Daughter" felt very Holmes-ish.The final problem for me was the number of typographical issues in the Kindle edition. Words were run together; I suspect many had something to do with words that were hyphenated at the end of a line. I've seen the same problem when pulling text from a PDF into a text document. A spell check would have caught them, but obviously wasn't done.
If you like mysteries that involve Sherlock Holmes, I think you would find the book interesting. The stories are not pastiches, but have the tone of each individual author. Tackle it with an open mind and give it some leeway for the typos if you choose the Kindle version.
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LibraryThing member jamespurcell
Not a lot to get excited about in this anthology.
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