The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

Author: Ransom Riggs

Publisher: Quirk Books

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1594744777

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Learn the skills of the world’s most famous detective in this how-to guide for Sherlock enthusiasts and amateur sleuths—from the author of the Miss Peregrine books This reader’s companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world’s most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one’s own death, readers will learn how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases—plus an arsenal of modern techniques available to today’s armchair sleuths. Along the way, readers will discover a host of trivia about the master detective and his universe: • Why did Holmes never marry? • How was the real Scotland Yard organized? • Was cocaine really legal back then? • Why were the British so terrified of Australia? For die-hard Sherlockians and amateur investigators alike, this handbook is nothing less than . . . elementary.


The Sherlock Holmes Book

The Sherlock Holmes Book

Author: DK

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 1100

ISBN-13: 1465449973

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The Sherlock Holmes Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, tackles the most "elementary" of subjects--the world of Sherlock Holmes, as told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes Book is packed with witty illustrations, clear graphics, and memorable quotes that make it the perfect Sherlock Holmes guide, covering every case of the world's greatest detective, from A Study in Scarlet to The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, placing the sorties in a wider context. Stories include at-a-glance flowcharts that show how Holmes reaches his conclusions through deductive reasoning, and character guides provide handy reference for readers and an invaluable resource for fans of the Sherlock Holmes films and TV series. The Sherlock Holmes Book holds a magnifying glass to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.


The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age

Author: Alan Pearce

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781370021567

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Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of all time. He is driven to right the wrongs of the world. It is only natural that he should turn his attention to the Internet."The Internet has become a sinister and dangerous place - a grotesque parody of all that it originally promised," explains Holmes. "Open your eyes, Watson. We are living in a postmodern surveillance dystopia from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals is impossible."Luckily, Holmes has all the right answers. This is a cyber-security and digital counter-surveillance handbook like no other.Our two heroes embark on a perilous journey to the Dark Side learning along the way to avoid the traps laid by their adversaries - the State, the Corporate Giants and the Criminals and Insane.From self-destructing messages to anonymous browsing, we visit alternative Internets and discover how to employ the Dark Arts for the power of good.This is a Call to Arms. The time has come to reclaim the Internet from the commercial interests, the scammers and the surveillance state. And - as Sherlock Holmes clearly demonstrates - it is really simplicity itself.This book may only take a few hours to read but it will change your life.In the writing of this book, Dr Watson has called upon the services of Alan Pearce, a renown cyber-security expert and author of numerous books who lectures around the world and trains journalists and others in digital counter-surveillance.


Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong

Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong

Author: A.J. Low

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9810747519

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--Winner of Red Dot Book Awards 2013-2014, Younger Readers’ Category, 1st Place-- --Selected for National Library Board’s READ! Singapore 2014-- Meet Sherlock Sam, Singapore’s greatest kid detective. With his trusty robot Watson, Sherlock Sam will stop at nothing to solve the case, no matter how big or small! In Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong, Auntie Kim Lian’s precious Peranakan cookbook disappears, and Sherlock Sam cannot eat her delicious ayam buah keluak anymore! Will Sherlock Sam be able to use his super detective powers to find this lost treasure?


Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories

Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0486113760

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Thrilling crime-solving exploits of Holmes and Dr. Watson in a collection of adventure classics: "The Red-Headed League," "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," and 5 others.


Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Author: Brad Ricca

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1466883650

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Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time. Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction's greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.


Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Author: David MacGregor

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781787056534

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Picking up the trail with the incredibly influential films of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Volume II goes on to explore the antiheroic Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, and then the somewhat rocky journey of Holmes into the medium of television (actors Alan Wheatley, Douglas Wilmer, and Peter Cushing all declared their respective TV series as the worst experience of their professional careers). Television finally found its "definitive" Holmes in Jeremy Brett's portrayal for Granada Television, and then the BBC's "Sherlock" had flashed brilliantly across the cultural sky before crashing and burning in spectacular fashion. Still, despite its ignominious end, Benedict Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock Holmes quite literally changed the face of Sherlockian fandom overnight, as studious middle-aged white men now found themselves sharing uneasy ground with a younger, more diverse, and more female audience. Now a full-fledged transmedia phenomenon, Sherlock Holmes can be any gender, ethnicity, or species, and is celebrated in fan fiction and fanvids, as well as conventions that are far more inclusive than Sherlock Holmes societies of the past. Vincent Starrett's poetic notion that Sherlock Holmes is a character "who never lived and so can never die" has never been more true, and the Digital Age promises any number of new versions of Sherlock Holmes to come.


The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age

Author: Alan Pearce

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9781520140520

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Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of all time. He is driven to right the wrongs of the world. It is only natural that he should turn his attention to the Internet."The Internet has become a sinister and dangerous place - a grotesque parody of all that it originally promised," explains Holmes. "Open your eyes, Watson. We are living in a postmodern surveillance dystopia from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals is impossible."Luckily, Holmes has all the right answers. This is a cyber-security and digital counter-surveillance handbook like no other.Our two heroes embark on a perilous journey to the Dark Side learning along the way to avoid the traps laid by their adversaries - the State, the Corporate Giants and the Criminals and Insane. From self-destructing messages to anonymous browsing, we visit alternative Internets and discover how to employ the Dark Arts for the power of good.This is a Call to Arms. The time has come to reclaim the Internet from the commercial interests, the scammers and the surveillance state. And - as Sherlock Holmes clearly demonstrates - it is really simplicity itself. In the writing of this book, Dr Watson has called upon the services of Alan Pearce, a renown cyber-security expert and author of numerous books who lectures around the world and trains journalists and others in digital counter-surveillance.


The Adventure of the British Museum, Volume 2

The Adventure of the British Museum, Volume 2

Author: Charles Phillips

Publisher: Ammonite Press

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781781454206

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This is the second title in a series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books: a unique, new form of puzzle books, in which the reader must solve the puzzles to escape the pages. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a locked book: filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, plus an ingenious Hieroglyphic Code Wheel set into the cover. Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection. With King George V due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumors of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum, and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.


The Digital Age Detective

The Digital Age Detective

Author: Brendan Riley

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1476627754

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Imagining the figure of the fictional detective as an archetype in the study of modern culture, the author argues that contemporary detective fiction can help us better comprehend fundamental shifts of the Digital Age--in communication, family, entertainment, society, even the way we think as individuals. The nature of the detective story itself models how we build and share knowledge. Drawing on concepts from literature and media studies, the author reveals clues about modern phenomena like conspiracy theory, groupthink and the nature of our digital identities.