The Sherlock Holmes Companion by Daniel Smith

The Sherlock Holmes Companion by Daniel Smith

A beautiful and lavishly illustrated book on one of the greatest and most enduringly popular literary characters of all time: Sherlock Holmes. Since it's original printing five years   ago, we are re-issuing The Sherlock Holmes Companion with a full update of all the exciting detective developments from both the small and big screen as well as further details on all the major characters and locations.  Illustrated throughout with more than 150 pictures ranging from period engravings and book jackets to modern-day location shots and film stills from TV adaptations, this is a compendious guide to all the stories, their author and the enigmatic pipe-smoking creation at their heart.  Daniel Smith’ s witty and informed text provides plot summaries of every single Sherlock Holmes story, potted biographies of Holmes, Moriarty, Watson and of course Conan Doyle. Interviews with actors and contributors who’ ve helped bring the great detective to life over the years, including a new interview with Mark Gatiss who not only plays Mycroft Holmes but is also co-creator of the BBC series Sherlock.  This is a book aimed at both the Holmes aficionado and at the gift market – comprehensive and nostalgic while also rigorously critical and not afraid to rank the better Holmes stories against the lesser.

'Engaging dip-into book'

"We wholeheartedly recommend The Sherlock Holmes CompanionIt’s a great celebration of part of our cultural heritage. Smith’s prose is lucid, economical and informative, and the book is a treasure trove of details about the world of the famous detective and his human creator. It’s the kind of book likely to persuade you to revisit the literary canon once again, and as each generation finds inspiration from the stories, to remember the richness of the world that Conan Doyle created. It’s one that resonates with readers and audiences worldwide to this day." 

"We wholeheartedly recommend The Sherlock Holmes Companion. It’ s a great celebration of part of our cultural heritage. Smith’ s prose is lucid, economical and informative, and the book is a treasure trove of details about the world of the famous detective and his human creator. It’ s the kind of book likely to persuade you to revisit the literary canon once again, and as each generation finds inspiration from the stories, to remember the richness of the world that Conan Doyle created. It’ s one that resonates with readers and audiences worldwide to this day." 

'Engaging dip-into book'

Daniel Smith has written on subjects as diverse as Sherlock Holmes (The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide), serendipity (The Lucky Bugger's Casebook) and Cockney rhyming slang (The Language of London). When not buried in an archive somewhere in search of forgotten stories, he lives in East London with his wife, Rosie, and an assortment of fish. Despite his passionate interest in the Dig for Victory campaign, his own garden is, alas, not all that it might be. He is author of The Spade as Mighty as the Sword: The Story of World War Two's Dig for Victory Campaign, published by Aurum.

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ISBN 13	9781781314043
ISBN 10	1781314047
Title	The Sherlock Holmes Companion
Author	Daniel Smith
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2014-11-06
Number of pages	224
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