SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE FALL RIVER TRAGEDY
Original promotional pamphlet excerpting Haskell's book, in which the great detective solves the world's most famous unsolved axe murder.
Original promotional pamphlet excerpting Haskell's book, in which the great detective solves the world's most famous unsolved axe murder.
Uncommon self-published "condensation" of a longer manuscript entitled DATING SHERLOCK HOLMES, feverishly presenting the "true solution" to a problem of Hill's own discovery, if not his own devising.
First edition of the first new Sherlock Holmes novel to be officially authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate.
Collected character vignettes by a longtime devoted Sherlock Holmes fan, introduced by New York Times bridge writer Truscott and published by Samuel Gringras's Magico Magazine.
Limited edition facsimile reprint of Jones's essay on Edinburgh surgeon Joseph Bell, inspiration for Doyle's detective in several particulars.
Well-researched study of Holmes's investigative practices in relation to newly developing 19th-century theories of criminology and forensics.
First edition of this scarce book of verses on Holmesian themes, diverse illustrations and pleasant rhyme schemes.
Signed first edition of this chronological encyclopedia of plays featuring Sherlock Holmes.
Analysis of Sherlock Holmes's fondness and aptitude for disguises and amateur theatricals, from a technical and historico-cosmetological perspective.
Scarce signed pamphlet exploring the historical and geographic background of Doyle's THE VALLEY OF FEAR.
Scarce pamphlet exploring the historical and geographic background of Doyle's THE VALLEY OF FEAR.
Limited first edition of this fourth anthology of Sherlockian writings by members of The Speckled Band of Boston.
Signed first edition of King's third mystery novel starring the partners in detecting, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
Lovely limited first edition of Klinefelter's general monograph on Sherlock Holmes, his genesis, exploits, chroniclers, and followers.
Scarce first edition of this collection of Klinger's essays, reviews, and other writings on Sherlockian topics, inscribed by him to Curtis Armstrong.
Scarce first printing of these Knoxian verses, variously Etonian, Oxonian, and Sherlockian.
Uncommon first U.S. edition of this Golden Age anthology, with an introductory essay by Knox expanding on his Rules of Detective Fiction and stories by Agatha Christie, Marie Belloc-Lowndes, Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, and others.
First printing of this early, authorized biography of Doyle, written by an acquaintance sympathetic to his later Spiritualist convictions.
Rare piece of Danish Sherlockiana, inscribed to English actor, playwright, and medical practitioner Eric Jones Evans.
Third edition of these selected comic pieces by the Canadian humorist, notably including "An Irreducible Detective Story," whose target is an unnamed but easily identified Great Detective.
First US edition, paperback issue, of Tom and Enid Schantz's reissue of Lehmann's Sherlock Holmes parody cycle, reproduced along with their original 1893 illustrations from PUNCH and with a new introduction.
First edition of Lescroart's second novel, a Sherlockian homage starring the great detective's unacknowledged son.
First edition of Lewis's novel, a piece of extremely Sherlockian Sherlockiana involving the fictionalized exploits of Philadelphia scion society The Sons of the Copper Beeches.
First printing of this biography of the famed Victorian thief and criminal mastermind Adam Worth, generally believed to have been the model for Doyle's Moriarty.
First edition of the complete compilation of Mager's comic strip burlesque of Sherlock Holmes, whose Sherlocko and Watso characters continued on in Mager's later strips as detective "Hawkshaw" and "the Colonel."