Beyond Baker Street: Sherlockian Anthology by Michael Harrison (.ePUB)
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Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology (1976) by Michael Harrison (ed.)
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Overview: “It is a capital mistake, my dear Watson, to theorize before one has the facts.”
People who cannot read a word of English know his name. Thousands write each year to his 221B Baker Street address. At least one cardinal and one president of the United States may be found among his faithful admirers. The young accept him, as their fathers and grandfathers accepted him.
Yet he is intensely prejudiced, often bad-tempered, irritable with the people who might look to him for a little kindness, capable of a quite unmerited snub, grossly self-indulgent, arrogant, self-opinionated, and decidedly touchy about trivialities.
He is, of course, the Master, Sherlock Holmes.
How does one account for the fascination that Sherlock Holmes has held for so many people, of so many backgrounds and countries, over so long a time? Never fear, for editor Michael Harrison and twenty-five other devoted Sherlockians clear the fog of late-Victorian London as they take us indeed beyond Baker Street to a firmer understanding of Holmes, Doctor Watson, the Canon, and their creator, Conan Doyle. No one here has sought to father views and significances which are not plainly apparent at the first reading of the stories, the sixty adventures.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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