Daily Sherlock Holmes - A Year of Quotes From the Case-Book of the World''s Greatest Detective

Keep Holmes and Watson by your side every day with this delightful book of quotable, memorable, evocative daily entries from the adventures of the world's greatest detective!

"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us.
"How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."
"How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment.
"Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself.

At that first sight of Watson, Sherlock Holmes made brilliant deductions. But even he couldn't know that their meeting was inaugurating a friendship that would make himself and the good Doctor cultural icons, as popular as ever more than a century after their 1887 debut. Through four novels and fifty-six stories, Arthur Conan Doyle led the pair through dramatic adventures that continue to thrill readers today, offering an unmatched combination of skillful plotting, period detail, humor, and distinctive characters. For a Holmes fan, there are few pleasures comparable to returning to his richly imagined world--the gaslit streets of Victorian London, the companionable clutter of 221B Baker Street, the reliable fuddlement (and nerves of steel) of Watson, the perverse genius of Holmes himself.

It's all there in The Daily Sherlock Holmes, the perfect bedside companion for fans of the world's only consulting detective. Within these pages readers will find a quotation for every day of the year, drawn from across the Conan Doyle canon. Beloved characters and familiar lines recall favorite stories and scenes, while other passages remind us that Conan Doyle had a way with description and a ready wit. Moriarty and Mycroft, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson; the Hound, the Red-Headed League, the Speckled Band, and the dread Reichenbach Falls--it's all here, anchored, of course, in that unforgettable duo of Holmes and Watson. No book published this year will bring a Holmes fan more pleasure. Come, readers. The game is afoot.

About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a doctor and writer. In addition to creating Holmes and Watson, he wrote numerous fantasy, science fiction, and adventure stories. Levi Stahl is the marketing director of the University of Chicago Press and the editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald E. Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany. Stacey Shintani is a designer and project manager.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stacey Shintani, Michael Sims, Levi Stahl
• Assisted by: Stacey Shintani (Editor), Levi Stahl (Editor), Stahl Levi (Editor), Sims Michael (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780226659640
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Year of Quotes; A Year of Quotes
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travel guides; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, REFERENCE / Quotations, Classic crime, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Dictionaries Of Quotations, Quotations, proverbs and sayings