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  • Publication: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes StoriesPublication Record # 596974
  • Editor: Otto Penzler
  • Date: 2015-10-00
  • ISBN: 978-1-101-87089-1 [1-101-87089-3]
  • Publisher: Pantheon Books
  • Price:
    $40.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xxii+789
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories by Thomas Gianni
  • Notes:
    • Stated "First Edition"
    • First printing per number line
    • Cover artist credit per copyright page and rear inside dust jacket flap
    • Date per "10/2015" on rear inside dust jacket flap. Copyright page just has year.
    • Canadian price $47.00
    • Each story is preceded by a page introduction to the author and story. The title and author credit are on both the introduction page and on the first page of the story. The book's table of contents uses the page numbers of the introduction. The page numbers below are the first page of the story.
    • Publication contains predominantly non-genre stories. Only genre stories, stories by authors above the threshold, or stories already present in the database are included below. The additional stories include:
      • p12, Vincent Starrett, 'The Unique "Hamlet": Being an Unrecorded Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes'
      • p30, Arthur Whitaker, 'The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted'
      • p48, O. Henry, 'The Sleuths'
      • p53, A. B. Cox, 'Holmes and the Dasher'
      • p56, Stephen Leacock, 'An Irreducible Detective Story'
      • p107, J. C. Masterman, 'The Case of the Gifted Amateur'
      • p119, Edmund Pearson, 'Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery'
      • p132, Hugh Kingsmill, 'The Ruby of Khitmandu'
      • p149, H. F. Heard, 'The Enchanted Garden'
      • p166, Ring W. Lardner, 'A Study in Handwriting'
      • p197, Robert Barr, 'Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs'
      • p204, Anonymous, 'Sherlock Holmes vs. Conan Doyle'
      • p207, R. C. Lehmann, 'The Duke's Feather'
      • p211, Roy L. McCardell, 'The Sign of the "400": Being a Continuation of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
      • p216, Christopher Morley, 'Codeine (7 Per Cent)'
      • p228, Bliss Austin, 'The Final Problem'
      • p278, S. C. Roberts, 'The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts'
      • p296, William O. Fuller, 'A Night with Sherlock Holmes'
      • p306, Leslie S. Klinger, 'The Adventure of the Wooden Box'
      • p316, Donald Thomas, 'The Case of the Unseen Hand'
      • p337, Sam Benady, 'The Abandoned Brigantine'
      • p348, Barry Day, 'The Adventure of the Curious Canary'
      • p362, Frederic Dorr Steele, 'The Adventure of the Murdered Art Editor'
      • p378, James C. Iraldi, 'The Problem of the Purple Maculas'
      • p406, Robert Barr, 'The Adventure of the Second Swag'
      • p413, Stanley Rubinstein, 'Sheer Luck Again'
      • p427, Anonymous, 'Herlock Shomes at It Again'
      • p432, Anthony Armstrong, 'The Reigate Road Murder'
      • p436, William B. Kahn, 'The Succored Beauty'
      • p440, Gregory Breitman, 'The Marriage of Sherlock Holmes', translated by Benjamin Block
      • p455, Arthur Chapman, 'The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes'
      • p458, George F. Forrest, 'The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace'
      • p461, Robert L. Fish, 'The Adventure of the Ascot Tie'
      • p470, Colin Dexter, 'A Case of Mis-Identity'
      • p506, Lyndsay Faye, 'The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness'
      • p518, John Lutz, 'The Infernal Machine'
      • p541, Daniel Stashower, 'The Adventure of the Agitated Actress'
      • p580, June Thomson, 'The Case of the Friesland Outrage'
      • p594, Carole BuggĂ©, 'The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor'
      • p627, Anne Perry, 'Hostage to Fortune'
      • p640, Jon Koons, 'The Adventure of the Missing Countess'
      • p650, Rick Boyer, 'The Adventure of Zolnay, The Aerialist'
      • p671, John T. Lescroart, 'The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra'
      • p684, Julian Symons, 'Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule...?'
      • p701, Barry Perowne, 'Raffles: The Enigma of the Admiral's Hat'
      • p713, Barry Perowne, 'Raffles on the Trail of the Hound'
      • p735, Kenneth Millar, 'The South Sea Soup Co.'
      • p739, Carolyn Wells, 'The Adventure of the Clothes-Line'
      • p744, Dorothy B. Hughes, 'Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin'
      • p755, Stuart M. Kaminsky, 'The Man from Capetown'
      • p774, Stuart Palmer, 'The Adventure of the Marked Man'
    • The essay on page xix does not have a credit on the title page, but is listed as by Arthur Conan Doyle in the table of contents.
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Anthology Title: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories • [Big Book Series] • anthology by Otto Penzler

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