Richard Lancelyn Green was een Britse academicus die zich wijdde aan de werken van Arthur Conan Doyle en Sherlock Holmes, algemeen beschouwd als de wereldwijde leidende autoriteit op deze gebieden. Zijn diepe betrokkenheid bij deze personages en hun schepper voedde zijn uitgebreide kennis en zorgvuldige onderzoek van hun literaire nalatenschap. Greens bijdrage lag in zijn vermogen om de complexiteit en nuances te belichten die de wereld van Sherlock Holmes en zijn schepper definiëren, en bood lezers diepgaande inzichten.
Short plays, jottings, parodies and self-parodies are gathered in this volume which is designed to help readers gain an insight into the background of the Sherlock Holmes stories. An introduction reveals the sources on which the author drew.
Singular, capital, wonderfully enjoyable, this is the biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories published since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime. Almost all the stories are specially written for the collection and the cases are presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. The result is a life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories which identities the gaps in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in their correct sequence - plus there is an invaluable, complete Holmes chronology.
Gathers letters written by children and adults from around the world involving personal mysteries and requests
Many writers have revisited the Reichenbach Falls in the hope of summoning up the ghost of Sherlock Holmes. Now Richard Lancelyn Green has succeeded triumphantly with this collection of stories by expert writers of the calibre of Ronald Knox and Julian Symons. Designed not to compete with or parody the original, but rather to reflect and enhance the achievements of the great detective.