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"The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it." ("The Six Napoleons")
Praise for the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
Eminent attorney and Sherlockian Klinger completes the daunting mission he began with 2004's two volumes examining the original 56 short stories to feature the great detective with this robust third book containing the four Holmes novels. All the gifts that netted Klinger an Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work are again in evidence: clear definitions of obscure terms, pithy discussions of some of the issues that have puzzled and delighted Holmes fans for generations (where exactly was Watson wounded?) and lucid essays (which legend inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles?). Klinger manages the difficult feat of appealing both to those new to the world of Sherlockian scholarship and to those who can quote the stories like gospel. Ample use of illustrations, some from the novels' original appearances, adds to the enjoyment. A must-have for any serious mystery fan, this edition will stand as the benchmark for generations to come.
—Lennie Picker, Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, September 6, 2005
THE LONG & THE SHORT
"As in his Edgar-winning first two volumes, Klinger's editing is a marvel of
scholarly summary." (Read the full review)
—Thomas Leitch, Kirkus book review
"This is what we have been waiting for: all the Sherlock Holmes stories with the most learned, interesting, revelatory annotations possible. The task will never be performed better, and in fact, need never be done again. An indispensable set."
—Peter Straub
"No Sherlockian, here or around the world, can fail to be overwhelmed and overjoyed by Leslie Klinger's annotated edition of Watson's collections of Holmes's most colorful cases. The books' more than two thousand notes are awesome in their scope and erudition. Their hundreds of illustrations alone are worth the books' price . . . a marvelous milestone in Sherlockian criticism."
—Martin Gardner, editor of The Annotated Alice and The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown
“You have in your hand the Final Solution to the collected Sherlock Holmes Stories.”
—John Le Carré , from the introduction to The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
"Elementary? Hardly. Even the sleuth of Baker Street would be awed by the ingenious deductions and dazzling speculations of modern Sherlockian scholarship. There is no better guide to this seriously playful detective work than Leslie Klinger and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes."
—Michael Dirda
"The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is a splendid memorial to a writer whose influence on all of us cannot be underestimated. The delightful annotations and splendid photographs brought back a flood of memories, as they will for any lover of Sherlock Holmes."
—Sir Arthur C. Clarke
"Sherlockian commentary is both a science and an art, demanding on the one hand a prodigious knowledge of a thousand disparate subjects and on the other a degree of wit and humor to ease its presentation. Leslie Klinger's The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes reveals a writer rich in both requirements, producing a work both entertaining and informative."
—Laurie R. King, author of the best-selling Mary Russell series
New York Times book review
Kirkus book review
Publisher's Weekly book review
Publisher's Weekly Interview with Les Klinger
