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"Let me recommend this book--one of the most remarkable ever penned." (The Sign of Four)
A cause for international celebration—the most important Sherlock Holmes publication in four decades.
When William Baring-Gould died in 1967, he left an annotated edition of the Sherlock Holmes canon in manuscript form that later became the standard in the field. Now, thirty-seven years later, renowned Sherlockian Leslie S. Klinger has taken on a similar task, completing a two-volume, boxed edition as monumental as his predecessor’s. In these volumes, Klinger reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights:
*Beginners will benefit from Klinger’s essay, “The World of Sherlock Holmes,” and its insightful biographies of Holmes, Watson, and Conan Doyle.
*History lovers will revel in the wealth of Victorian literary and cultural details, among them an entry on the Victorians’ fear of live burial and a detailed examination of nineteenth-century vampires.
*Sherlockian fanatics will puzzle over tantalizing new theories. Was Moriarty involved in the story of “The Red-Headed League”? Did he really die at Reichenbach Falls? Did Holmes investigate the Dracula case himself?
*Art aficionados will thrill to the 700-plus illustrations, culled from The Strand Magazine, Harper’s Weekly, Collier’s Magazine, and other long-lost sources, which make this the most lavishly illustrated edition of the Holmes tales ever produced.A work for the ages, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes promises to enrich the world of Sherlock Holmes for an entirely new generation of readers.
The annotator, Leslie S. Klinger, a lawyer in Los Angeles and a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, is considered one of the foremost Holmes authorities in the world. Beginning in 1968, the study of the lives of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, M.D., has been Klinger’s consuming passion. He has published countless articles on Sherlockiana and numerous books, including The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, a monumental, multivolume work of Sherlockian scholarship. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
November 2004
ISBN 0-393-05916-2
$75.00 cloth (Can. $115.00)
8_” x 10” slipcased / two volumes, 640 pages each / two-color design throughout / 802 black-and-white illustrations / 8-page color insert / MYSTERY
W. W. Norton & Company
New York London
www.wwnorton.com
"With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf."
("The Empty House")
