Sherlock Holmes by Gas Lamp: Highlights from the First Four Decades of the Baker Street Journal

by Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Edgar W. Smith, et al.

Book Overview

Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands.His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Never mind that Trevor's name wasn't really Trevor, or that Holmes hid the name of his university. Or perhaps you do mind, as so many have before you...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823212211
• ISBN13: 9780823212217
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"