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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN num: 9780802143259
ISBN number: 0802143253
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: October 10, 2007
Publishing house: Grove Press
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“A clever idea cunningly executed, and a welcome addition to the library of every Holmes fan.” —The Independent
He has been called a genius and a fraud, a hero and an addict. He advised kings in their glittering palaces, then disappeared into the darkest alleys of London’s criminal underworld. He was (and remains) a global icon, but who was this Sherlock Holmes? With an attention to detail that would make his subject envious, Nick Rennison gathers the clues of a life lived among the stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Oscar Wilde to Sigmund Freud, and uncovers startling, previously unknown information. How did a Cambridge drop-out and bit player on the London stage transform himself into a renowned “consulting detective”? Did he know the identity of “Jack the Ripper”? When did Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty very first cross paths? To where did Sherlock Holmes disappear after his presumed “death” in 1891? Sherlock Holmes answers these questions and many more as it careens through the most infamous crimes and historic events of the era, all in pursuit of the real man behind the greatest detective in modern fiction—and, just perhaps, non-fiction.
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I'll agree with several other reviewers.
a) If you are into Sherlockiana then this is for you.
b) If you want "really good writing", then...well, it won't keep you on the edge of your seat or be particularly "amusing".
But, it is a good Sherlockiana....
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As a former member of the scion society of The Silver Blazes, I found this alleged biography of the life of Sherlock Holmes well researched and doubtless correct in many of its assumptions. Having said that, however, I must also say that I have rarely read a book so tedious, uninteresting, and downright plain dull; I only finished it to see if it could really get any worse. The author takes a career filled with events of the caliber encountered by SH and reduce both them and him to insignificant ciphers of unimaginative and prosaic mediocrity. This is not my kind of book: is it yours?
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I've been a Sherlock Holmes fan as far as I can remember and I've read my share of stories beyond the Canon, but am no means a scholar, so perhaps this idea has been done before and I was not aware of it. This is such a well written and though out bio on a man who never lived, but Rennison does a beautiful job of breathing life into Holmes and making him feel very real indeed. He helps fill in some of the gaps and give some very plausable explanations of some of Watson's little errors from the dates of events to his war wound(s) and even his wives. It also goes into to Moriarty, and Col. Moran, as well as Mycroft. It's a well rounded book and I am really impressed that Rennison was able to give Holmes a family and a "history" by the little info in the Canon. It's very obvious that Rennison is passionate about his subject. He could not have written such a convincing biography if he wasnt. If you want to read a great book about the man, this would be the one.
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