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Well written with great illustrations, fun to peruse on a rainy afternoon or in bed before a long winter's nap. Visually, the book is a delight.
This book is a must-have for any sherlockian. Includes a graph showing holmes' mental abilities during times of revelation and amazement. Also discusses holmes' influence on the detective genre. Includes commentary on all things sherlock holmes and dr... Read More
Well formatted, decently large pages, and easy to read type. Wow this is jammed packed with everything you ever wanted to know. Provides backdrops and explanations for anything either cultural puzzling or puzzling to everyone but holmes himself.
This book launches directly into a study of each story in the sherlock holmes canon. Although each chapter focuses on a different story, the format is very similar and very entertaining.
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Quality
Reading this along with the conan doyle stories has been fun.
My teen is reading this along with the actual sherlock novels.
Each story is detailed with the characters and a summary of the story.
Competitiveness
But much smaller than the detailed commentaries.
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It also includes a synopsis of all the original s
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Didbt want to rummage too much
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But much smaller than the detailed commentaries
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Its pretty thorough but it is also opinionated about the era in which these stories were written being critical of doyle while also acknowledging how progressive he was and contains errors
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They label holmes an asexual and they refer to eustace brackenstall as bracknell in the section the legend returns
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If they could do more thorough editing and remain unbiased in their facts this would be a decent encyclopedia
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The thing is encyclopedias are supposed to report facts as they are without opinions or theories something lost on dk in this instance
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It wasnt made to be an ebook
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