Description: About This Book Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes: Biographical and Critical Contexts PART I. THE MAJOR SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES From A Study in Scarlet A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley Mystery The Man with the Twisted Lip The Blue Carbuncle The Speckled Band Silver Blaze The Musgrave Ritual The Final Problem The Empty House The Dancing Men Charles Augustus Milverton The Second Stain PART II. CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ESSAYS Martin Priestman, Sherlock Holmes--The Series Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot Gian Paolo Caprettini, Sherlock Holmes: Ethics, Logic, and the Mask John A. Hodgson, The Recoil of The Speckled Band: Detective Story and Detective Discourse Alastair Fowler, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Dancing Men and Women Stephen Knight, The Case of the Great Detective Catherine Belsey, Deconstructing the Text: Sherlock Holmes Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan, The Speckled Band: The Construction of Woman in a Popular Text of Empire Audrey Jaffe, Detecting the Beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and The Man with the Twisted Lip Appendices A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle Doyles Favorite Sherlock Holmes Stories Sherlock Holmes on Film Select Bibliography Index

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