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Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson's narratives
The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the stories afresh, sceptically probing Dr Watson's narratives and Holmes's often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle's life and works, and Doyle's literary sources, the book offers new insights into the Holmes stories and reveals what they say about money, class, family, sex, race, war, and secrecy.
Key Features
New insights into the ever-popular Holmes storiesNew contexts for late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction, from forgotten scandals to the social controversies of the ageA literary-critical approach to these popular works that is both scholarly and accessible
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Texts and References
Introduction: The Art of Deduction
Part One: Finance
1. Stone into Money
2. The Roylotts of Stoke Moran
3. The Guardians of Securities
Part Two: Class
4. The Pick of a Bad Lot
5. The Fall of the House of Musgrave
6. A Scandal in East Yorkshire
Part Three: Family
7. Singular Occurrence at a Wedding
8. The Rock of Gibraltar
9. The Discreetly Shadowed Corners
Part Four: Sex
10. The Worst Man in London
11. The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge
Part Five: Race
12. Nice, Amiable People!
13. A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth
14. The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood
Part Six: War
15. This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear
16. Do We Progress?
17. The East Wind
Part Seven: Secrecy
18. That Secret History of a Nation
19. Oaths and Secrets
20. The Giant Rat of Sumatra
Conclusion: The Problem of Finality
Bibliography
Index



