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"Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy,in full bohemian colour the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers,including Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Daniel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman, celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes in this paperback version. In addition, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers in ""Sherlock Holmes on the Internet,"" while in ""A Sherlockian Library"" editors Lellenberg and Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in ""Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart."" This is truly a treasury of never-before-published Sherlockian tales that should not be missed."

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"""An homage to the master....There isn't an unpolished stone in the pile....Put this on your Christmas list for Holmes' many fans. Grade: A."" ""Solid anthology...uniformly faithful to the spirit of Doyle's creation."" ""This collection is of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf."" ""Uniformly satisfying...remind[ing] readers of the elements of Conan Doyle's greatness: difficult puzzles, vivid but selective detail, and tight dialogue."""

Solid anthology...uniformly faithful to the spirit of Doyle's creation.

An homage to the master....There isn't an unpolished stone in the pile....Put this on your Christmas list for Holmes' many fans. Grade: A. Uniformly satisfying...remind[ing] readers of the elements of Conan Doyle's greatness: difficult puzzles, vivid but selective detail, and tight dialogue. Solid anthology...uniformly faithful to the spirit of Doyle's creation. This collection is of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf.

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Martin H. Greenberg, dubbed the king of anthologists, has more than 1000 anthologies to his credit, including the Murder Most . . . series. Bill Pronzini, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, is author of over 50 novels, including the Nameless Detective series. Martin H. Greenberg, dubbed the king of anthologists, has more than 1000 anthologies to his credit, including the Murder Most . . . series. Bill Pronzini, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, is author of over 50 novels, including the Nameless Detective series.

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