Book description
Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's
lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes -- the characters and themes,
the publishers and readers, Victorian London and the Houdini
connection, radio actors and cartoonists, the fans who cling to
Holmes's reality and the professors who tease out motifs from the
fifty-six short stories and four novels.
The first edition of Sherlock Holmes Handbook appeared in
1993. This edition catches up on new films, new books (a few with a
hint of the supernatural) and the advent of the Internet, which has
spread Holmes's fame and Sherlockian fun even further worldwide. The
intervening years have brought three multi-volume editions of the
Sherlock Holmes stories, with hundreds of footnotes providing new
insights and new amusement. They have also seen Holmes repeatedly on
the amateur and professional stages, including a few Canadian
productions. And there have been changes to everything from copyright
rules to libraries, booksellers and audio recordings.
Christopher Redmond has been studying and writing about Sherlock
Holmes for twenty-five years and was for many years co-editor of
Canadian Holmes. He is the author of In Bed with Sherlock
Holmes and Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Redmond
lives in Waterloo, Ontario.
