The Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction

Andrew Glazzard

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Case of Sherlock Holmes

Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction

Andrew Glazzard

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474431323

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About this book

Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson’s narratives

The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the stories afresh, sceptically probing Dr Watson’s narratives and Holmes’s often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle’s life and works, and Doyle’s literary sources, the book offers new insights into the Holmes stories and reveals what they say about money, class, family, sex, race, war, and secrecy.

Key Features

New insights into the ever-popular Holmes stories
New contexts for late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction, from forgotten scandals to the social controversies of the age
A literary-critical approach to these popular works that is both scholarly and accessible

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Texts and References Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: The Art of Deduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Finance
1. Stone into Money Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. The Roylotts of Stoke Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. The Guardians of Securities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Part II: Class
4. The Pick of a Bad Lot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. The Fall of the House of Musgrave Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
6. A Scandal in East Yorkshire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Part III: Family
7. Singular Occurrence at a Wedding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
8. The Rock of Gibraltar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
9. The Discreetly Shadowed Corners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part IV: Sex
10. The Worst Man in London Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
11. The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Part V: Race
12. Nice, Amiable People! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
13. A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
14. The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part VI: War
15. This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
16. Do We Progress? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
17. The East Wind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part VII: Secrecy
18. That Secret History of a Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
19. Oaths and Secrets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
20. The Giant Rat of Sumatra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Conclusion: The Problem of Finality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 20 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474431323