Richard Lancelyn Green fu uno studioso britannico dedito alle opere di Arthur Conan Doyle e Sherlock Holmes, ampiamente considerato la massima autorità mondiale in materia. Il suo profondo coinvolgimento con questi personaggi e il loro creatore alimentò la sua vasta conoscenza e il suo meticoloso esame dell'eredità letteraria. Il contributo di Green risiedette nella sua capacità di illuminare le complessità e le sfumature che definiscono il mondo di Sherlock Holmes e il suo creatore, offrendo ai lettori profonde intuizioni.
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.