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Sherlock Holmes CD Trivia Game. This is an exciting, new Sherlock Holmes Trivia CD Game - "The Game is Afoot." There are four levels of play, and you can only get to the next level by successfully completing the one before it. Each level is timed to add an additional challenge to your knowledge and skills. Additionally, when you complete all levels successfully, you will have access to four crossword puzzels. There is one for each of Arthur Conan Doyle's novels that will test your detective skills. System requirements are a PC compatible computer, Internet Explorer or Netscape with Java enabled and a CD Rom Drive. Just pop it in and it's self-starting. Your browser will start automatically and the game will load.
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A new Sherlock Holmes mystery worthy of the master Sir Conan Doyle himself.
In 1891, a horrified public learned that Sherlock Holmes-in a last deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty-had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, popular demand made Sir Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informed a stunned Dr. Watson, "I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Llasa."
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This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of A Study in Scarlet and moves towards such classic tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something like a portrait of the detective and his creator. By the end of the long journey through London and across Europe (with a long stopover at Reichenbach Falls), one is apt to have found a friend for life.
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Hardcover. This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of A Study in Scarlet and moves towards such classic tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something like a portrait of the detective and his creator. By the end of the long journey through London and across Europe (with a long stopover at Reichenbach Falls), one is apt to have found a friend for life.
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Many writers have revisited the Reichenbach Falls in the hope of summoning up the ghost of Sherlock Holmes. Now Richard Lancelyn Green has succeeded triumphantly with this collection of stories by expert writers of the calibre of Ronald Knox and Julian Symons. Designed not to compete with or parody the original, but rather to reflect and enhance the achievements of the great detective.
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One key element of a classic is the fact that it keeps being discovered with wonderment by new readers. Generations of mystery mavens first encountered the genre--in written or dramatic form--in the person of Sherlock Holmes, so this new celebration of Arthur Conan Doyle's canon should have appeal. The authors, who compiled a similar companion to Agatha Christie's work (1986), supply capsule descriptions of each tale; each includes data on first publication, a precis of the "principal predicament," a notable quote, and comments on the story's "notable feature" and "oddities and discrepancies." But this Holmes companion includes more: information about Doyle, Victorian England (and Holmes' London), the British empire, British government (remember Mycroft?), British peerage, British money, the stories' illustrators, actors who've portrayed Holmes and Watson, Sherlock Holmes societies around the world, and a half dozen other helpful subjects. Not an essential acquisition, but likely to circulate where Holmes remains a favorite fictional detective. Mary Carroll
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Interested historians may someday trace Sherlock Holmes's shift from exemplary detective to all-purpose cultural icon to Kaye's third anthology of Sherlockiana (The Resurrected Holmes, 1996, etc.). Except for what turns out to be an uncharacteristically ingenious entry by Henry Slesar, Holmes is tricked out in every guise from Malibu Barbie to Astronaut Barbie--trading compliments with Jacques Futrelle on the doomed Titanic (Edward D. Hoch), getting duped still again by Irene Adler (Aline Myette-Volsky), infiltrating the Fenian Brotherhood at the behest of Professor Moriarty (Carole Bugg), contracting an Arabian Nights marriage (Shariann Lewitt), going undercover in all-too-successful drag (Craig Shaw Gardner), and providing, with Watson, an unsettling preview of Laurel and Hardy's most famous short (Patrick LoBrutto)--except that of Inductive Barbie. Readers with a taste for the bizarre will find the collection typified by Jay Sheckley's fantasia on memory, sex, and circus freaks; purists are hereby warned. Kaye would've provided a real service for consumers by labeling this farrago of 15 stories The Contortions of Sherlock Holmes
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A three-scoop helping of Holmesiana ranging from reprints of classic parodies by Bret Harte and O. Henry to evergreen pastiches by Vincent Starrett, August Derleth, and Stuart Palmer to new stories by Jon Koons, Roberta Rogow, and Carole Bugg‚ (whose ``Adventure of the Tongue-Tied Tenor'' is a particular standout). The emphasis is on fictional items--Holmes is sent to Oz (Ruth Berman) and Damon Runyon's New York (Craig Shaw Gardner), pitted against the Nazis (Manly Wade Wellman) and a... read more
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Hammer's essays and articles highlight Sherlock Holmes' previously unpublished cases, packing in Holmes-style mysteries which any Doyle fan will find satisfyingly authentic. An excellent collection of intriguing instances, this is recommended for any Holmes enthusiast who just can't get enough.
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This elementary musical compendium gathers together 16 selections from 11 Sherlock Holmes movies or television series, from Cyril Mockridge's themes for the 1939 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes through Frank Skinner's omnipresently tracked music for all twelve of the Universal Holmes films of the 1940s, through James Bernard's doggedly relentless horror music for Hammer's The House of the Baskervilles and John Scott's eerie violin sonorities from A Study in Terror, to more recent filmic renditions as The Seven Percent Solution (John Addison), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Miklos Rozsa), Without a Clue (Henry Mancini) and Young Sherlock Holmes (Bruce Broughton). Also included are themes from the British television programs, The Masks of Death (Malcolm Williamson) and Sherlock Holmes (Patrick Gowers). This is a very fine assortment of cues, nicely performed by an unnamed orchestra under the baton of Lanny Meyers. The CD contains much music hitherto unavailable, especially those wonderfully melodramatic scores by Mockridge and Skinner, and Bernard's elegantly cataclysmic Hammer music
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