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The Game is afoot : parodies, pastiches and ponderings of Sherlock Holmes / edited by Marvin Kaye.
Van Pelt Library PR1309.H55 G35 1994
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Game
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, English--Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Holmes, Sherlock--Fiction.
- Holmes, Sherlock.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Private investigators--England--Fiction.
- Private investigators.
- England.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Mystery fiction.
- Parodies (Literature)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 512 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- A collection of parodies on the subject of Sherlock Holmes by a variety of writers: Holmes fighting the Nazis, solving the mystery of Little Red Riding Hood, Holmes in Tibet, in Oz, one story even discusses his parentage.
- Contents:
- Sherlock Holmes / Frederic Dorr Steele
- The Recollections of Captain Wilkie / Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Original of Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Harold Emery Jones
- Mr. Sherlock Holmes / Dr. Joseph Bell
- The Singular adventure of the unexpected doorscraper / Kenneth Grahame
- The Adventure of the two collaborators / James M. Barrie
- The Mystery of Pinkham's diamond stud / John Kendrick Bangs
- The Umbrosa burglary / R.C. Lehmann
- A La Sherlock Holmes / Charles Loomis
- The Sign of the 400 / R.K. Munkittrick
- The Adventure of the clothes-line / Carolyn Wells
- Sherlock Holmes umpires baseball / Anonymous
- The Adventure of the circular room / August Derleth
- The Adventure of the marked man / Stuart Palmer
- The Strange case of the megatherium thefts / S.C. Roberts
- The Adventure of the unique hamlet / Vincent Starrett
- The Enchanted garden / H.F. Heard
- But our hero was not dead / Manly Wade Wellman
- Sherlock Holmes and the Drood mystery / Edmund Pearson
- In the island of Uffa
- The Tibetan adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Amanda Russell
- The Histrionic Holmes / Marvin Kaye
- How Holmes came to play the violin / Jacques Barzun
- The Really final solution / Nick Pollotta
- The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Chapman
- The Succored beauty / William B. Kahn
- The Adventure of the second swag / Luke Sharp
- An Irreducible detective story / Stephen Leacock
- The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes / O. Henry
- The Stolen cigar case / Bret Harte
- A Letter from Mycroft Holmes / Jon White
- The Murder of Conan Doyle / Ray Russell
- The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton papers / John Dickson Carr
- Journal of a Ghurka physician / Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater
- The Struldbrugg reaction / John Sutherland
- The Moriarty gambit / Fritz Leiber
- The Adventure ofilemma of the distressed Savoyard / Crighton Sellars
- The Adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer
- The Theft of the Persian slipper / Edward D. Hoch
- The Dynamics of an asteroid / Robert Bloch
- Daydream / Basil Rathbone.
- Notes:
- Jacket illustration by Jill Bauman ; jacket design by Henry Sene Yee.
- ISBN:
- 0312104685 :
- OCLC:
- 29428959
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