85. Sherlock Holmes

August 12, 2021

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The games afoot! Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the world’s favourite consulting detective. Why has the popularity of Sherlock Holmes survived more than a century and what do the...
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Books Referenced

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Vincent Starrett

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Referenced as 'the first great study of Sherlock Holmes as a literary phenomenon' from 1933

The White Company

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

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Mentioned as one of Conan Doyle's historical novels that he really loved writing, set during the Hundred Years' War

Sir Nigel

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

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Mentioned as the sequel to The White Company, described as 'brilliant' with an account of the Black Death

A Study in Scarlet

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

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Referenced as the first Sherlock Holmes novel from 1887

A Sign of Four

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

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Mentioned as another early Sherlock Holmes novel

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

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Mentioned as essentially the first detective story, set in Paris with detective Dupin

The Moonstone

Author: Wilkie Collins

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Referenced in discussion of early detective fiction, featuring Sergeant Cuff and themes of India

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

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Mentioned for introducing Inspector Bucket as a prototype for later detective characters

The Name of the Rose

Author: Umberto Eco

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Referenced as containing a tribute to English character through William of Baskerville, who is modelled on Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

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Referenced as the 1901 Sherlock Holmes novel set before the Reichenbach Falls

Arthur and George

Author: Julian Barnes

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Described as 'A brilliant novel' about the Adelji case involving Conan Doyle

Five

Author: Hallie Rubenhold

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Described as 'a brilliant book' about the victims of Jack the Ripper

The 7% Solution

Author: Nicholas Meyer

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Mentioned as a Holmes pastiche where Holmes meets Sigmund Freud

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

Author: Michael Dibdin

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Described as 'a brilliantly dark book' about Holmes and Jack the Ripper