Sherlock Holmes - A centenary celebration

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One hundred years ago Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous detective, made his debut, and this entertaining and lavishly illustrated book is a centenary tribute to him. Allen Eyles studies the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon and how it affected the life of its creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the first study within a single volume of the entire Sherlock Holmes phenomenon, and it is a valuable guide for devotees and beginners alike. In addition to the stories themselves, the author considers the large number of stage and screen versions that they have inspired and looks at the attempts actors have made over the years to portray the detective. Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebra- tion includes many of the original classic illustrations by such artists as Sidney Paget and Frederic Dorr Steele, and also scenes from Holmes representations on stage and screen, where he has been played by actors such as William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Robert Stephens and Roger Moore. It gathers together a wealth of rare visual material, much of it in full colour, from a wide range of sources. Although Conan Dovle died in 1930, Sherlock Holmes lives on — for how can someone whose obituary has not vet appeared in The Times be dead? Appendices list the sixty stories by Conan Doyle, biographies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, a selection of literary studies and ref- erence works, and collections of Sherlock Holmes pastiche. There is also a chrono- logical, selective listing of important plays, films and television and radio broadcasts featuring Sherlock Holmes.