In addition to the superb stories describing his adventures written by his friend, roommate, and chronicler, Dr. The tall, slender, hawk-nosed figure, with his deerstalker hat and Inverness cape, is instantly recognizable in every corner of the world. Every schoolchild knows what he looks like, what he does for a living, and most know many of his peculiar characteristics. There are some who claim that he is a fictional character, but this notion is, of course, absurd. The Introduction to The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories by Otto PenzlerĪbout a hundred years ago, Sherlock Holmes was described as one of the three most famous people who ever lived, the other two being Jesus Christ and Houdini. And Sherlock completists are destined to find, in the book itself, stories they’ve never read. Even diehard Holmes fans are likely to find something here they never knew about the great detective. In the essay, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, who also put the book together, illuminates the life and times of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “universally beloved” creation (except he was not so beloved, as you’ll see, by Conan Doyle himself) with humor and thoroughness. Wodehouse and August Derleth to Neil Gaiman and Anne Perry. The below essay doubles as the introduction to The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Holmes tales ever assembled, one that includes an array of surprising writers, from P.G.
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