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Sherlock Holmes, a study in sources / Donald A. Redmond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redmond, Donald Aitcheson, 1922-2014, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Characters--Sherlock Holmes.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Characters.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Sources.
- Holmes, Sherlock.
- Detective and mystery stories, English--Sources.
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- Names, Personal, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Craftsman or copyist? Genius or journeyman? Artist or artisan? Of these, what was Conan Doyle? Does anyone take Conan Doyle seriously? Who can explain the phenomenon which makes Sherlock Holmes the instantly recognizable stock figure, probably the only such stereotype and standby in late Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction? Small fanatic groups rally to the cause of other fictional heroes from Tarzan to James Bond - and scores of forgettable detectives moulder in forgettable detective stories, while durable dated Holmes, whose career is now a century old (and he himself better than a
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- The Full Strength of the Organization
- A Canonical Rule of Three
- The Name is Familiar to Me
- The Absence of Thomas
- A Scarlet Study in Southsea
- A Strong Family Resemblance
- Scandalous Bohemian Names
- Red-Headed Conundrum
- Five Pips for Gloria Scott
- Boscombe, Boone, and the Band
- The Doctors’ Quarter Part I
- No Rule of Thumb for Engineers
- An Ungovern(ess)able Situation
- Journey to Birmingham
- Croydon, Norbury, and West Sussex
- Aldershot, Reigate, and Old Soldiers
- Patience in Brook Street
- The Final Memoirs
- Name that Hound, and His Friends
- Nameplates on the Empty House
- Murder on Home Ground
- Dancing Norfolk Names
- The Bicycle Craze
- Priory Pride in Names
- The Initialled Tobacco-Pouch
- Charles Augustus
- The Bust-Breaker of Baker Street
- Too Big for their Cantabritches
- The Terrible Death of Willoughby Smith
- Three-Quarters of Trinity College
- The Game Afoot at Marsham
- The Spy and the Spot
- Wistful Lodgers in the Wisteria
- Underground or Underwater, Deadly
- Who the Devil was the Ladyin the Red Circle?
- Dying Despite the Doctors
- A Maze, Amaze, a Mazarin
- Thor Bridge Still a Problem
- A Remarkable Collection of V’s
- Alias Three Forgers
- A Few Illustrious Names, and Others
- The Three-Gabled Fable
- Something of the Final Five
- Into the Valley, with Fear
- The Noble Bachelors, and Benedicts
- A Surplus in Surplices
- Such Nice Neighbours
- A Few of the Signs
- Four Adventures, Fourteen Names
- Who the Blazes—?
- The Creeping Man and his Last Bow
- What about the Others?
- The End of the Adventures
- L’Envoi
- Notes
- Some Sources of the Sources: Bibliography
- Key to Abbreviations of Titles
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [327]-341.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9371-3
- OCLC:
- 897435953
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