the new annotated sherlock holmes the complete short stories

Contemporary illustrations accompany the text most notably Sidney Paget's delightful drawings for Strand, but also artwork from the various newspapers that syndicated the tales in the United States and supplemental graphics (what exactly is a 'stormy petrel'?) but you'll need a pushcart to haul this edition around, because it's bursting with Klinger's notations, which provide historical context and hint (but barely) at the heated tenor of hardcore Sherlockiana. For the rest of us serious Sherlockians in the making there is this mammoth two-volume set, which presents in chronological order the 56 short stories published in The Strand Magazine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' from 1891.

Klinger's Sherlock Holme s Reference Library, an exhaustive nine-volume survey of scholarship from Gasogene Press (so named, of course, for the famous seltzer machine at the detective's Baker Street digs). Klingerįor the serious Sherlockian, there is Leslie S. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Leslie S.

The new annotated sherlock holmes the complete short stories