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Title: Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William Baring-Gould ISBN: 0-517-03817-X Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 07 August, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully speculative!
Comment: I first read Baring-Gould's biography back in 1975, and it was my first REAL exposure to The Game -- the treatment of Sherlock Holmes as a living person and the art of speculating about The Master's life from the clues dropped by Watson in the original stories. I'm delighted that this book is still available.
Baring-Gould presents as good a chronology of the Doyle tales as anyone, and he "fills in the blanks" delightfully. (Imagine Holmes fighting a prehistoric bird in hand-to-talon combat on the deck of a freighter! It's true!!)
Baring-Gould obviously had a damn good time writing this extraordinary, and definitive, biography of Sherlock. And if you've already devoured the original 60 stories, dive into this book. Then set it alongside your copies of the Doyle books. It deserves a place there.
Rating: 5
Summary: The real biography of the world greatest detective
Comment: Baring-Gould is the greatest chronicler of the Holmesian canon. His annotated version is a must for every enthusiast. Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street is the biography of the man, put together from the many stories. "It was the year in which Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden...."."Unaccountably, the Almanac fails to list perhaps the most memorable event of that same memorable year. It was the birth, in the early hours of the morning of Friday, January 6, of a third and last son to Siger and Violet Holmes, at the farmstead of Mycroft in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, a district famous for its horse-breeding stables and its wind-swept--"wuthering" - heights." You will read about the birth of the man, his family, his brother, etc. You will enter with him into his friendship with Watson (also Watson's youth) and their adventures. Please bring this book back in print. It is a must.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant bit of Sherlockiana.
Comment: W.S. Baring-Gould's classic biography of Holmes is brilliant from start to finish. Arguably the greatest Sherlockian scholar ever, Baring-Gould assembles the details of Holmes's life from isolated references in the canonical stories and indulges himself in some inferential reasoning as to some of the missing information: he contends, for example, that a certain well-known U.S. consulting detective is actually the child of Holmes and Irene Adler. (Some of his speculations on other matters have been borne out by the discovery of a lost manuscript published by Nicholas Meyer under the title _The Seven Per Cent Solution_.)
Readers of this work will also want to find a copy of Baring-Gould's masterly _The Annotated Sherlock Holmes_ if possible. These kids writing Holmes pastiches today just don't know what the hell they're doing :-).
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Title: The Annotated Sherlock Holmes : 2 Vols. in One by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William S. Baring-Gould ISBN: 0517481022 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 20 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett ISBN: 1883402050 Publisher: Otto Penzler Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Baker Street Companion by Ariel Books ISBN: 0836210085 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 13 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes by Dick Riley, Pam McAllister ISBN: 0826411169 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind the World's Greatest Detective by Martin Fido ISBN: 1580620469 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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