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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children called Baskerville Hall? When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides into any adventure, and Jimmie Moriarty, a boy whose brilliance...
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Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's 1893, and itinerant cowboy brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer are down to their last pennies. So when jobs come open at a ranch run by a secretive, surly foreman, they can't say no. Fortunately, they have a distraction from the hard work and their bad-tempered boss: the Sherlock Holmes stories Old Red has come to love so much. But when the cowboys come across a dead body on the ranch, Old Red isn't content to keep daydreaming about Holmes....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On a cold November morning, a young American actress visits 221B Baker Street, desperate for Sherlock Holmes to protect her from the threats of a mysterious, menacing man who has recently appeared in her life. Holmes agrees to help, even though he has just promised the Prime Minister to solve the murder of John D. Rockefeller’s security agent before the incident can derail an upcoming British-American summit. To find the agent’s killer―and help...
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Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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In 1893, Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother, Gustav "Old Red," find themselves in a situation that they never expected: they have a bit of money and time to do something other than scramble. It's enough to confound even that most unconfoundable of men, their mutual inspiration, Sherlock Holmes. So Old Red decides that it's time for the two of them to head off to the Texas hill country, to San Marcos, and deal with the greatest tragedy of Old...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Bostrom recreates...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and ... campaigning for justice in all. Stanford ... makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in...
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English
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In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural...
11) The black dove
Author
Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Crime-solving cowboys Gus 'Old Red' and Otto 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer are wandering around San Francisco when they stumble onto another mystery to be solved: the death of their acquaintance, Dr. Chan. It turns out that no one wants this mystery solved, but that doesn't stop the brothers from riling up the locals with their heavy-handed investigations.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 3
Language
English
Description
Encyclopedia Brown solves ten intriguing cases including "The case of the boy bullfighter" and "The case of the divining rod". Match wits with America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
Author
Series
On the case with Holmes and Watson volume 5
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel form the story of Sherlock Holmes coming to the aid of a client whose sister's dying words referred to a mysterious speckled band. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
18) Kid Sherlock
Author
Series
Kid Sherlock volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"John Watson is nervous being the only dog at his new school, Baker Elementary. But when he takes an interest in fellow student, Sherlock Holmes, the two become unlikely, and sometimes contentious, friends. Together they deal with bullies, track down lost toys, investigate stolen playground equipment, and even face an unseen threat terrorizing the school halls. All the while Watson tries to help Sherlock make friends with fellow students and Sherlock...
Author
Series
On the case with Holmes and Watson volume 7
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A retelling in graphic novel form of the tale of Sherlock Holmes coming to the aid of a pawnbroker who's joined a club to earn extra money, but who suspects something nefarious is happening in his shop while he's away. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
On the case with Holmes and Watson volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel form the tale of Sherlock Holmes's attempt at solving the murder of a Herefordshire landowner, whose estranged son has been accused of the crime. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
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