A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon - Hardcover

King, Laurie R; Klinger, Leslie S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590585496 ISBN 13: 9781590585498

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011

Synopsis

What would happen if you asked eighteen top writers who don’t normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes? What if you wrote to them, saying:In 19th century England, a new kind of hero a consulting detective blossomed in the mind of an underemployed doctor and ignited the world’s imagination. In the thirteen decades since A Study in Scarlet first appeared, countless variations on that theme have been played, from Mary Russell to Greg House, from Basil of Baker Street’ to the new BBC Holmes-in-the-Internet-age.We suspect that you have in the back of your mind a story that plays a variation on the Holmes theme.... And what if these great writers read that proposal and decided that yes, they did have that kind of tale in the back of their minds? The result is A Study in Sherlock, Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, wit

About this title

Review:

An Interview with Contributor Lee Child

Why do you think you were asked to contribute to this book?
Because over the years Les Klinger and Laurie King discovered I'm a closet--but hopelessly amateur--Sherlockian, I suppose.

Why did you want to do it?
Because of the other folks already committed--I was hoping some credibility would rub off on me.

How much research did you do for your story "The Bone-Headed League"? Did you read Sherlockian literature? Or just the original story "The Red-Headed League"?
I read the original story again, to refresh my memory for the names I needed to know ... and then I read a commentary by some guy called Klinger for background.

Did writing this story have any effect on your feelings about the Sherlock Holmes Canon?
It reminded me that old Conan Doyle got away with the kind of fudges and inexactitudes we'd be slaughtered for today.

Are you done with Sherlock Holmes? Or can we expect more of this sort in the future?
No writer in my genre will ever be done with Holmes. Just not possible. Whether or not I do more depends whether I get asked again.

About the Author:

Laurie R. King is the award-winning (Edgar, Creasey, Agatha, Nero,Lambda, Macavity) and bestselling author of a score of crime novels, half of them featuring “the world’s greatest detective—and her husband, Sherlock Holmes.” Her books and related academic material can be found at www.LaurieRKing.com. Leslie S. Klinger is the Edgar-winning editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, a collection of the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon. He also edited the highly regarded The New Annotated Dracula and numerous anthologies of Victorian detective and vampire fictionand criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590585496
• ISBN 13: 9781590585498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250