The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches & Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes
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The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches & Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes

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This long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most renowned detective originally suppressed to avoid causing scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, to public figures, or to Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, finally, the truth is revealed about Holmes' exploits involving such figures as Ida Tarbell, Consuelo Vanderbilt, P.G. Wodehouse, and James...more
Paperback, 528 pages
Published February 15th 1995 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published 1994)
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A couple of bizarre stories but the one by Basil Rathbone is worth the price of the book!
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