He seems to have powers of magic / by Beth L. Gallego. LEGENDS AND IMPORTALS: A shrewd private inquiry agent / by Donny Zaldin -- Victoria revolutionary / by Alexian A. Gregory -- Making the air of London sweeter / by Peter Calamai -- Unknown to the general public / by Christopher A. Zordan -- He just knew / by Leah Cummins Guinn -- The dramatic reveal / by Doug Elliott -- Holmes is a Holmes is a Holmes / by Laura Sky Brown -- The case of the two bachelors / by Lee Vann -- The observation of trifles / by Robert Stek -- The importance of being Sherlock / by Michael J. Quigley -- LEGENDS AND IMPORTALS: Under the eye of Athene / by Adrian Nebbett -- Tale of the trickster / by Angela Misri -- The spiritual power and the flying hair, by Susan E. Bailey -- The adventure of the misremembered king, by Margie Deck -- Taking the law into his own hands / by Mark Hanson -- Man of steel / by Christopher Sequeira -- The case of the emperor's moustache / by Meghashyam Chirravoori -- While the stars wheeled over / by Tatyana Dybina -- He seems to have powers of magic / by Beth L. Gallego. FIGURES OF POP CULTURE: Built on a deep love / by Michelle Birkby. There was method in his madness / by Wendy Heyman-Marsaw -- The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth / by Mary Miller -- Betwixt two things / by Rob Nunn -- Adventure for all, and all for adventures / by Karen Ellery -- Deerstalker or busby / by John Baesch -- Likeable even when least reasonable / by Fran Martin -- Always across the desert / by Jaime N. Mahoney -- Soulless in London / by Courtney M. Powers -- Tinker tailor Sherlockian spy / by Clarissa Aykroyd -- Lost boys / by Bob Coghill -- FIGURES OF POP CULTURE: World's greatest / by Mike Ranieri -- Helping the creatures of hope / by Monica M. Schmidt -- With Douglas in California / by Brad Keefauver -- There is something positively inhuman in you / by Charles Prepolec -- Man, it's witchcraft! / by Amy Thomas -- Holmes is in the house / by Lyn Adams -- Putting right what went wrong / by Linnea Dodson -- A foreigner by his accent / by Vincent W. Wright -- Built on a deep love / by Michelle Birkby. SOMETHING RECHERCHÉ: Behold the man / by Laura Sook Duncombe. Down these mean streets a man must go / by Vicki Delany -- Detective, spy, and author / by Darlene Cypser -- Is he at all human? / by Regina Stinson -- The documents in the case / by Al Shaw -- The heroes of Baker Street and West 35th Street / by David Marcum -- The marrow of the matter / by Marina Stajić -- A whole lot of detective stories / by Angela Fowler -- Hearing it all over again / by Ray Betzner -- The Sherlock Holmes of Iran / by Navid Farrokhi -- Body language / by Brian and Derek Bellanger -- The other artful detective / by Wilda R. Thumm -- SOMETHING RECHERCHÉ: Professional thinker / by Bonnie MacBird -- With a little help from my friends / by Ashley D. Polasek -- Like a folk tale character / by Gayle Lange Puhl -- The doctor is in / by Steve Mason -- Once you have eliminated six impossible things / by Resa Haile -- Singular dreams / by Ian J. Bennett -- The stage's gain / by Joanne Chaix -- The doll and its maker / by Daniel Stashower -- Behold the man / by Laura Sook Duncombe.
Summary:
In his introduction, editor Christopher Redmond says, "The essays in this collection are not an analysis of what Sherlock Holmes is like (brilliant, unsociable, hawk-nosed) but rather case studies of whom he can be said to be like. Their sixty suggestions range across centuries and continents, and include figures from belief and legend as well as from contemporary fiction and film. Some are household names, while others will be unknown to nearly all readers. In each case, while the author has been encouraged to provide an introdution to the character in question, the ultimate purpose of the comparison is to shed light on some aspect of the character of Sherlock Holmes, whose complexities are far from exhausted more than 130 years after he was introduced to a curious readership."--Page 4 of cover.
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