Shadows of Sherlock Holmes

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Published March 31, 1998

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978-1-85326-744-4
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Edited by David Stuart Davies The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte, The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov, Nine Points of the …

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19 histoires, publiées entre 1844 et 1928 à la Sherlock, mais bien dans son ombre

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"Shadows of..." est le 7ème tome de mon coffret Wordsworth Sherlock Holmes. Les 6 précédents sont composées d'histoires originales de Sherlock Holmes par Arthur Conan Doyle, et ce présent "Shadows" est un recueil de 19 nouvelles, publiées entre 1844 et 1928, impliquant des détectives, des agents criminels et des enquêtes, écrites par d'autres auteurs, dont un anonyme.

Les histoires et l'introduction choisies dans ce volume sont toutes réalisées par David Stuart Davies.

J'ai lu les histoires 1 à 6 du 20 au 29 décembre 2019, j'ai pris une pause pour lire The Lost Road, de Tolkien et j'ai repris avec l'histoire 7 le 18 janvier 2020, qui se termine aujourd'hui, le 4 février.

Le titre de ce recueil est approprié : malgré quelques belles phrases ici et là, et quelques excellentes histoires, elles restent toutes en dessous de la qualité de Doyle, à …

19 stories, published between 1844 and 1928 à la Sherlock, but shadowed

3 stars

"Shadows of..." is the 7th book in my Wordsworth Sherlock Holmes Box set. The previous 6 are all Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, and this present "Shadows" is a collection of 19 stories, published between 1844 and 1928, involving detectives, criminal agents and investigations, written by other authors, including an anonymous one.

This volume chosen stories and introduction are all made by David Stuart Davies.

I read stories 1-6 from 20 to 29th December 2019, took a break to read Tolkien's Lost Road and resumed with story 7 on 18th January 2020, ending 4th of February.

The title for this collection is apt : despite a few beautiful phrases here and there, and a couple excellent stories, they remain all bellow Doyle's quality, in my opinion. Overall, the book is a slow burner - as I was able to read 1 or 2 stories at a time, and, …

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