Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog.
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: ''The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Stolen Cigar Case' by Bret Harte, 'The Swedish Match' by Anton Chekhov, 'Nine Points of the Law' by E.W. Hornung, 'The Ghost at Massingham Mansions' by Ernest Bramah and 'The Great Pearl Mystery' by Baroness Orczy.
David Stuart Davies
David Stuart Davies, General Editor of Wordsworth’s Mystery and Supernatural series, is an editor, novelist, playwright and film historian. He is an expert on Sherlock Holmes, having written four Holmes novels, two plays exploring the darker side of the great detective and three studies of the stage, film and TV career of Arthur Conan Doyle’s character.
David Stuart Davies, General Editor of Wordsworth’s Mystery and Supernatural series, is an editor, novelist, playwright and film historian.
He is an expert on Sherlock Holmes, having written four Holmes novels Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991), The Tangled Skein (1995), Shadow of the Rat (1999), and The Scroll of the Dead (1998). He has also written two plays exploring the darker side of the great detective, which premiered at Salisbury Playhouse and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, as well as three studies of the stage, film and TV career of Arthur Conan Doyle’s character. He edited Sherlock, the detective magazine, for ten years and has also contributed commentaries to DVDs of Granada TV’s Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett, the Basil Rathbone films of the 1930s and 1940s, and A Touch of Frost starring David Jason.
He is the author of the Johnny One Eye series of crime novels set in World War II. In addition, he has edited several books of selected stories, Shadows of Sherlock Holmes, Short Stories From the Nineteenth Century, Crime Scenes and Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories, as well as a volume of new Sherlock Holmes short stories, Sherlock Holmes; The Game’s Afoot.
David has given literary presentations in locations as diverse as the House of Commons, New York’s National Arts Club, the National Film Theatre and on the Queen Mary II.
David is on the committee of the Crime Writers Association and edits their monthly magazine, Red Herrings. David lives in Yorkshire.
