![]() He established Mysterious Press in the 1970s and opened The Mysterious Bookshop soon thereafter. Many of the best ones are here, including Vincent Starrett's "The Unique Hamlet," David Stuart Davies' "The Darlington Substitution Scandal," Barry Day's "The Case of the Curious Canary" and Stephen King's "The Doctor's Case. Ottos name is well-known in the world of detective and mystery fiction. Penzler took great care in selecting The Big Book's Sherlockian pastiches, making sure that his choices were extremely well-written and clever enough that they might have come from Doyle's own hand. You won’t, however, find Doyle’s extracanonical tales “The Lost Special” and “The Man With the Watches” in this volume, perhaps because the detective in those stories is never named - although he sounds very much like Holmes. The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly. ![]() ![]() Penzler includes a couple of short pieces by Doyle: “The Field Bazaar,” written for a University of Edinburgh fundraiser in 1896, and “How Watson Learned the Trick,” a 503-word story created for the miniature library in Queen Mary’s dollhouse at Windsor Castle. ![]() ![]() Doyle declined, sent Whitaker a check for 10 guineas and then stashed the manuscript away, unaware that he was setting up a literary whodunit that would not be solved for almost 40 years. The true author finally was revealed to be Arthur Whitaker, an obscure British architect who had written the story and sent it to Doyle in 1911, hoping that it might be published as a collaborative effort. ![]()
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