Sherlock Holmes: The American Years: The American Years (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312378462)

A compelling volume of original tales concerning Sherlock Holmes' legendary time in America

With an introduction by Leslie S. Klinger, editor and compiler of all three volumes of the Annotated Sherlock Holmes, this collection of ten original stories brings light to one of the least examined periods in the life of the great detective--his time in the former colonies, the United States.

This Holmes is a youthful one--a young man not yet set upon his course in life and in his famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street. In Richard Lupoff 's Inga Sigerson Weds, he's come to America to represent the family at his sister's wedding. In Darryl Brock's My Silk Umbrella, Mark Twain narrates his fateful encounter with Holmes at a baseball game in Hartford, Connecticut; Steve Hockensmith narrates the meeting of the young William Gillette and the object of his later, most famous turn upon the stage; and Peter Tremayne reveals the intersection of Holmes and the Irish in the 19th century American midwestern landscape.

With further stories by Marta Randall, Rhys Bowen, Peter Beagle, and others, the legend, the mythology and even the history of the world's greatest detective is further enhanced by these charming, clever and mystifying tales.

Author: Michael Kurland
ISBN-10: 0312378467
ISBN-13: 9780312378462
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2010
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.06w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/09/2009 pg. 33
Booklist 12/01/2009 pg. 30
School Library Journal 02/01/2010 pg. 136