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The Sherlock Holmes 2nd Illustrated Omnibus
Illustrations from experts, including headings from the Strand magazine add atmosphere, dim brooding mystery, dark foreboding suspense, aquiline sharp intelligent featured Holmes.
400 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1979
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Arthur Conan Doyle
15.8k books24.5k followersSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.
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July 29, 2013
Illustrated versions are best, favorites, because the dark, shadowed images add a threatening, gloomy atmosphere: foggy secluded London alleys, dank mephitic Cornish moors. Quality of artists varies from blurry backgrounds for hollow-eyed empty faces in shallow silhouettes, to traced muscles and delicate detailed fine-featured elegant ladies in fancy costumes. Holmes is always tall, gaunt, and hawk-like. The Strand magazine (Sep 1908-12) mast-head is a city view between curved statues, like the first serial readers saw. I sigh and yearn for years gone by.
Like BBC Cumberbatch Sherlock and Granada Jeremy Brett versions found on DVD, Holmes unravels devious clues amidst comradely banter and dangerous confrontations.
http://aneyespy.blogspot.ca/2011/12/d...
Of 56 short stories, this includes 7 in His Last Bow, 12 in the Case-Book; in between is one of four novels, the Valley of Fear. Wisteria Lodge was A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes in two parts: Experience of Mr. Eccles (client), and Tiger of San Pedro (villain). The original spelling was Wistaria (British-Canadian?), now Wisteria (American?), even in gutenberg.org, where rule one of proof-readers is to keep author's spelling. Much Doyle is free
http://aneyespy.blogspot.com/2011/12/...
http://www.gutenberg.org
subject to copyright restrictions: year 1980 Canada, 2000 UK, but not till 2016-23 US.
http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyri...
Checking and fixing Wiki entries, I started posting synopsis there, so for now, this review is brief points to recall events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adve...
Points:
Wistaria Lodge: Elusive murdered Spaniard found holding note from governess in former tyrant's family.
Bruce-Partington: Plans for sub, ten papers found on junior clerk dumped on rail-yard, missing vital three.
Devil's Foot: horror kills Cornish woman, maddens her brothers while at cards, calls return of African explorer cousin.
Red Circle: Italian mob chases secretive lodger revealed as lovely woman.
Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: rich spinster with seemingly ill missionary and wife set to hold funeral.
Dying Detective: Holmes with symptoms of rare tropical infection, calls for planter expert he accused of nephew's murder.
His Last Bow: War Service catches German spy after two years undercover as Irish American.
Valley of Fear: Vermissa Valley is coal-mining area in US west, where Freeman Lodge 341 murders and extorts innocent citizens. McMurdo from Pinkerton takes them down. Twenty years later, a surviving criminal, Baldwin, finds his target called Douglas, in Birlton. Holmes starts with a warning from a Moriarty source, and a corpse, head shot off, at Birlton.
Thor Bridge: has a chip out of the sturdy stone balustrade, next to a dead lady shot in the head. The beautiful family governess stands accused, a revolver found in her wardrobe.
Sussex Vampire is a passionate Peruvian step-mother caught with blood on her lips from a wound on her baby's neck. Mutual dislike with her crippled teen stepson seals those lips from accusation.
Three Garridebs: can share millions, claims an American of an old recluse who never leaves his room.
Illustrious Client asks to save smitten lovely Violet from wedding unscrupulous Baron Gruner, who keeps a journal of conquests.
Three Gables: is not worth outlandish offer, and burgled for memoirs of young diplomat son Douglas Maberley, dead after rejection by rich, greedy, ambitious, gorgeous, captivating (all in one word?) Isadora Klein.
Blanched Soldier: Godfrey Emsworth, is not on a world tour, so loyal best friend James Dodd asks Holmes to Tuxbury, Emsworth home where Dodd saw him last, unhealthily pale.
Lion's Mane: are last words of Stackhurst's weak-hearted science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson. Math coach Ian Murdoch claims to be victim's best friend, but is main suspect until he almost dies from same wounds.
Retired Colourman: Josiah Amberley, former owner of artist paint-box factory, says his lovely young wife ran away with his equally young neighbor and chess partner Dr. Ernest, and his money.
Veiled Lodger: of Mrs. Merrilow for five years, quiet wasting Mrs. Ronder wants to confess how, at Abbas Parva, a lion in her husband's circus killed him and scarred her, now that the actual killer, her lover the strong-man Leonardo, has died.
Shoscombe Old Place: will fall to creditors, unless Sir Robert Norberton wins the Derby in three weeks. But his sister, the owner of the racing Park, Lady Beatrice Falder, has taken to drink. He gave away her beloved pet, from their special spaniel breed, to Josiah Barnes, local innkeeper, maybe because the dog now attacks her. Head trainer John Mason suspects the Norlett servant couple, meetings at the crypt, and burnt bones. Like when the dog does not bark, the canine solves the case.
Like BBC Cumberbatch Sherlock and Granada Jeremy Brett versions found on DVD, Holmes unravels devious clues amidst comradely banter and dangerous confrontations.
http://aneyespy.blogspot.ca/2011/12/d...
Of 56 short stories, this includes 7 in His Last Bow, 12 in the Case-Book; in between is one of four novels, the Valley of Fear. Wisteria Lodge was A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes in two parts: Experience of Mr. Eccles (client), and Tiger of San Pedro (villain). The original spelling was Wistaria (British-Canadian?), now Wisteria (American?), even in gutenberg.org, where rule one of proof-readers is to keep author's spelling. Much Doyle is free
http://aneyespy.blogspot.com/2011/12/...
http://www.gutenberg.org
subject to copyright restrictions: year 1980 Canada, 2000 UK, but not till 2016-23 US.
http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyri...
Checking and fixing Wiki entries, I started posting synopsis there, so for now, this review is brief points to recall events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adve...
Points:
Wistaria Lodge: Elusive murdered Spaniard found holding note from governess in former tyrant's family.
Bruce-Partington: Plans for sub, ten papers found on junior clerk dumped on rail-yard, missing vital three.
Devil's Foot: horror kills Cornish woman, maddens her brothers while at cards, calls return of African explorer cousin.
Red Circle: Italian mob chases secretive lodger revealed as lovely woman.
Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax: rich spinster with seemingly ill missionary and wife set to hold funeral.
Dying Detective: Holmes with symptoms of rare tropical infection, calls for planter expert he accused of nephew's murder.
His Last Bow: War Service catches German spy after two years undercover as Irish American.
Valley of Fear: Vermissa Valley is coal-mining area in US west, where Freeman Lodge 341 murders and extorts innocent citizens. McMurdo from Pinkerton takes them down. Twenty years later, a surviving criminal, Baldwin, finds his target called Douglas, in Birlton. Holmes starts with a warning from a Moriarty source, and a corpse, head shot off, at Birlton.
Thor Bridge: has a chip out of the sturdy stone balustrade, next to a dead lady shot in the head. The beautiful family governess stands accused, a revolver found in her wardrobe.
Sussex Vampire is a passionate Peruvian step-mother caught with blood on her lips from a wound on her baby's neck. Mutual dislike with her crippled teen stepson seals those lips from accusation.
Three Garridebs: can share millions, claims an American of an old recluse who never leaves his room.
Illustrious Client asks to save smitten lovely Violet from wedding unscrupulous Baron Gruner, who keeps a journal of conquests.
Three Gables: is not worth outlandish offer, and burgled for memoirs of young diplomat son Douglas Maberley, dead after rejection by rich, greedy, ambitious, gorgeous, captivating (all in one word?) Isadora Klein.
Blanched Soldier: Godfrey Emsworth, is not on a world tour, so loyal best friend James Dodd asks Holmes to Tuxbury, Emsworth home where Dodd saw him last, unhealthily pale.
Lion's Mane: are last words of Stackhurst's weak-hearted science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson. Math coach Ian Murdoch claims to be victim's best friend, but is main suspect until he almost dies from same wounds.
Retired Colourman: Josiah Amberley, former owner of artist paint-box factory, says his lovely young wife ran away with his equally young neighbor and chess partner Dr. Ernest, and his money.
Veiled Lodger: of Mrs. Merrilow for five years, quiet wasting Mrs. Ronder wants to confess how, at Abbas Parva, a lion in her husband's circus killed him and scarred her, now that the actual killer, her lover the strong-man Leonardo, has died.
Shoscombe Old Place: will fall to creditors, unless Sir Robert Norberton wins the Derby in three weeks. But his sister, the owner of the racing Park, Lady Beatrice Falder, has taken to drink. He gave away her beloved pet, from their special spaniel breed, to Josiah Barnes, local innkeeper, maybe because the dog now attacks her. Head trainer John Mason suspects the Norlett servant couple, meetings at the crypt, and burnt bones. Like when the dog does not bark, the canine solves the case.
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