Name: Sherlock Holmes By Nick Utechin
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Sherlock Holmes Summary

Sherlock Holmes by Nick Utechin

Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle created the pipe-smoking, deer stalkered character, Sherlock Holmes, he has become a part of popular culture for generations, and here every aspect of the legendary detective is investigated.

Brimming with strange and amusing facts, Sherlock Holmes explores this timeless character and the continuation of impact it has had on audiences today.

Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide-range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.

About Nick Utechin

Nick Utechin is an Honorary member of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and edited its Journal from 1976-2006. He is also a member of the American Baker Street Irregulars Society and is distantly related to the great film portrayer of Holmes, Basil Rathbone. Nick is a freelance journalist and broadcaster and was a senior producer on BBC Radio 4, working on such programmes as Today, Any Questions?, Call Nick Ross, All In The Mind and Feedback. He lives in Oxford.

1 Introduction 6
2 The Doyle family 8
3 Literary beginnings 9
4 Dr Joseph Bell 10
5 The doctor who wanted to write 12
6 Who came before? 13
7 'A Study in Scarlet' 15
8 A slow birth process 19
9 Holmes described 21
10 Watson described 24
11 Holmes' Baker Street 25
12 So many choices 27
13 'The Sign of (the) Four' 30
14 Evocative of its time 33
15 'The Strand Magazine' 35
16 Sidney Paget 37
17 The human side 40
18 Central attraction 41
19 Deduction 43
20 Mycroft Holmes 45
21 Mrs Hudson 47
22 Scotland Yarders 49
23 Professor Moriarty 52
24 Women and Holmes 54
25 Holmes' literary tastes 56
26 Holmes' musical tastes 57
27 A rare actor 60
28 Town versus country 61
29 Expert monographs 64
30 Great quotations 67
31 The early plots 69
32 Holmes is critical 71
33 Increasing returns 72
34 Reichenbach beckoned 74
35 Start of something 77
36 First parodies 79
37 The footlights 81
38 'Sherlock Holmes' 84
39 'The Hound' looms 86
40 It was inevitable 89
41 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' 91
42 The start of scholarship 92
43 The bright Ronald Knox 94
44 Baffled! 96
45 Output dwindles 99
46 'His Last Bow' 102
47 Post Gillette's masterpiece 103
48 Spiritualism dominates 105
49 The final demise 106
50 'The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes' 109
51 Mystery stories 110
52 The 'talkies' 112
53 Rathbone arrives 115
54 Rathbone runs away 118
55 Up to date 119
56 The birth of societies 121
57 An insatiable appetite 125
58 Enduring appeal 130
59 Epilogue 132
60 Bibliography 134
61 Index 136

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GOR011212711

ISBN 13

9781910821244

ISBN 10

1910821241

Title

Sherlock Holmes by Nick Utechin

Author

Nick Utechin

Series

Amazing and Extraordinary Facts

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Rydon Publishing

Year published

2019-03-14

Number of pages

144

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N/A

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Sherlock Holmes Nick Utechin

Sherlock Holmes by Nick Utechin

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