n December 1893, Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines in anticipation of Sherlock Holmes's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero. London spiralled into mourning. Crowds sported black arm bands in grief and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, just as abruptly as the author "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem," he resurrected him. Though he kept detailed diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden ...
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n December 1893, Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines in anticipation of Sherlock Holmes's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero. London spiralled into mourning. Crowds sported black arm bands in grief and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, just as abruptly as the author "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem," he resurrected him. Though he kept detailed diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden change of heart. After his death, it was discovered that one of his journals from the interim period was missing, and it has never been found. Or has it? When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the pre-eminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, The Baker Street Irregulars, he never imagines he is about to be thrust into the hunt for the holy grail of Sherlockians: the missing diary. But when the world's leading Doylean scholar is found murdered in his hotel room, it is Harold, using wisdom and methods gleaned from countless detective stories, who takes up the search, both for the diary and the killer.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1st edition. 1st imp. includes VG dustjacket. front cover has red sherlock outline which is used to show through 'bloodsplatter' hole in front of jacket.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. First Canadian edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. NOT Book Club. Securely wrapped, dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Full # line starting with a 1. Book is near fine.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 9x6x1; We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Canadian first edition, first printing. Contains number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.
Our neighborhood book group, the Mystery Book Club, read Sherlockian for a meeting just this week. We found the format (1900 events versus 2010 events in the ensuing chapters) choppy, to say the least. One of our members gave up and just read all the chapters pertaining to the 1900-1901 events, then went back and read all the events from modern times. We saw artificiality in the sudden bloom of romance between Harold and Sarah, and the concept that someone would commit suicide for the purpose of provoking a reaction/scandal from among Arthur Conan Doyle fans at their convention in the Algonquin in New York.
