| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 512 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of parodies on the subject of Sherlock Holmes by a variety of writers: Holmes fighting the Nazis, solving the mystery of Little Red Riding Hood, Holmes in Tibet, in Oz, one story even discusses his parentage. |
| Contents |
Sherlock Holmes / Frederic Dorr Steele -- The Recollections of Captain Wilkie / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Original of Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Harold Emery Jones -- Mr. Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Joseph Bell -- The Singular adventure of the unexpected doorscraper / Kenneth Grahame -- The Adventure of the two collaborators / James M. Barrie -- The Mystery of Pinkham's diamond stud / John Kendrick Bangs -- The Umbrosa burglary / R.C. Lehmann -- A La Sherlock Holmes / Charles Loomis -- The Sign of the 400 / R.K. Munkittrick -- The Adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells -- Sherlock Holmes umpires baseball / Anonymous -- The Adventure of the circular room / August Derleth -- The Adventure of the marked man / Stuart Palmer -- The Strange case of the megatherium thefts / S.C. Roberts -- The Adventure of the unique hamlet / Vincent Starrett -- The Enchanted garden / H.F. Heard -- But our hero was not dead / Manly Wade Wellman -- Sherlock Holmes and the Drood mystery / Edmund Pearson -- In the island of Uffa -- The Tibetan adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Amanda Russell -- The Histrionic Holmes / Marvin Kaye -- How Holmes came to play the violin / Jacques Barzun -- The Really final solution / Nick Pollotta -- The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Chapman -- The Succored beauty / William B. Kahn -- The Adventure of the second swag / Luke Sharp -- An Irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock -- The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / O. Henry -- The Stolen cigar case / Bret Harte -- A Letter from Mycroft Holmes / Jon White -- The Murder of Conan Doyle / Ray Russell -- The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton papers / John Dickson Carr -- Journal of a Ghurka physician / Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater -- The Struldbrugg reaction / John Sutherland -- The Moriarty gambit / Fritz Leiber -- The Adventure ofilemma of the distressed Savoyard / Crighton Sellars -- The Adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer -- The Theft of the Persian slipper / Edward D. Hoch -- The Dynamics of an asteroid / Robert Bloch -- Daydream / Basil Rathbone. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Parodies, imitations, etc.
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Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction.
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Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Holmes, Sherlock.
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| Added Author |
Kaye, Marvin.
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| ISBN |
0312104685: $24.95 ($34.99 can.) |
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9780312104689 |
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