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holly_keimig's review
3.0
2015 50 Book Reading Challenge: A book written by an author with your same initials
This category was one of the hardest to find for me. Thankfully Sheri saved the day and found this on her shelves and let me borrow it. It was interesting in places, but rather weirdly set up. There were no chapters at all and it kind of read like a thesis paper. I couldn't really tell if the author thought Sherlock really lived or if he just wished it was the truth. The pictures and illustrations really helped me "see" the world of Sherlock Holmes. This would be a good reference book but a bit hard to read straight through.
This category was one of the hardest to find for me. Thankfully Sheri saved the day and found this on her shelves and let me borrow it. It was interesting in places, but rather weirdly set up. There were no chapters at all and it kind of read like a thesis paper. I couldn't really tell if the author thought Sherlock really lived or if he just wished it was the truth. The pictures and illustrations really helped me "see" the world of Sherlock Holmes. This would be a good reference book but a bit hard to read straight through.
northernfleabag's review
4.0
A wonderfully insightful read into, as the title suggests, both Sherlock Holmes and the era he 'lived' in. Accompanied with gorgeous illustrations (by Sidney Paget among others), and a very handy index, I'd certainly buy a copy of my own if I ever came across one.
lnatal's review
3.0
From BBC Radio 4 Extra - In Search of Professor Moriarty:
An excerpt from HRF Keating's 'Sherlock Holmes - The Man and His World' where we learn about the background of the great detective's nemesis - the 'Napoleon of Crime' - Professor James Moriarty.
Despite being a fictional character, Sherlock Holmes warranted this biography, first published in 1979. Keating confined himself to the authenticated facts that Doctor Watson alone reported.
Moriarty wrote a substantial scientific text, which gained him a university place. He is likened to the philosopher Nietzsche.
Read by Alan Moore.
An excerpt from HRF Keating's 'Sherlock Holmes - The Man and His World' where we learn about the background of the great detective's nemesis - the 'Napoleon of Crime' - Professor James Moriarty.
Despite being a fictional character, Sherlock Holmes warranted this biography, first published in 1979. Keating confined himself to the authenticated facts that Doctor Watson alone reported.
Moriarty wrote a substantial scientific text, which gained him a university place. He is likened to the philosopher Nietzsche.
Read by Alan Moore.
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