The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original)

The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled!Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyles 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him.Here, Otto Penzler collects eightythree wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Featuring pitchperfect cases by acclaimed modernday Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter); and parodies by Conan Doyles contemporaries A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, and O. Henry, not to mention genrebending cases by sciencefiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock.No matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoy The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories.Including Over a centurys worth of cases, from Conan Doyles 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaimans The Case of Death and Honey (2011) Appearances by those other great detectives Hercule Poirot and C. Auguste Dupin 15 Edgar Awardwinning authors and 5 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters Stories by Laurie R. King, Colin Dexter, Anthony Burgess, Anne Perry, Stephen King, P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, and many, many more.