A Samba For Sherlock

Author : Jô Soares
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780375700668
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Samba for Sherlock written by Jô Soares and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deftly crafted literary thriller, Brazilian author Jo Soares reimagines Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth while creating a crime novel that combines the authenticity of "The Alienist" with the exuberant fantasy of "carnival".

Author : Jose Eugenio Soares
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517449745
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Samba for Sherlock written by Jose Eugenio Soares and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Rio de Janeiro in 1886, this internationally acclaimed literary thriller begins with the theft of a Stradivarius violin that has been presented by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil to one of his more delectable mistresses--a harmless crime in itself but one that mystifies the authorities and (far more important) embarrasses the Emperor. At the suggestion of Sarah Bernhardt, who is on a triumphant tour through South America, the great Sherlock Holmes is summoned from London to solve the case. But by the time he arrives, events have taken a turn for the worse, as a series of grisly murders shocks the city--the victims all beautiful young women. In each case, the killer leaves his calling card: a violin string entangled in the woman's pubic hair, the corpse stripped of a flap of skin. Holmes (and Dr. Watson, of course) are immediately off on the track of the killer, but although Sherlock succeeds in coining the term "serial killer," his celebrated powers of deduction don't get him very far with the case itself: overcome by the charm of the tropics, some spectacular digestive difficulties, and the strong appeal of a pretty young actress--at thirty-two, he's not exactly a sexual virtuoso--Sherlock finds himself in a thicker fog than he ever encountered back home in London. And in dark counterpoint to Holmes's questionable ratiocinations and the novel's brilliantly re-created texture of nineteenth-century literary, social, and low-life Rio, is the chilling yet hypnotic voice of the killer himself, a monster of intelligence, evil, and ever-spreading fame. . . . A Samba for Sherlock is the work of a mind of encyclopedic knowledge, caustic wit, brilliant style, and, above all, a formidable ability to entertain.

Author : Jô Soares
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O xangô de Baker Street written by Jô Soares and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emperor of Brazil, Pedro II, summons Sherlock Holmes to find a stolen Stradivarius violin. Holmes' celebrated powers of deduction, however, prove to be no defense against the charms of the tropics, including an entrancing mulatta who introduces him to cannabis. By a Brazilian satirist.

Author : Jô Soares
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twelve Fingers written by Jô Soares and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A burlesque smorgasbord of international high jinks—the “biography” of a hapless, twelve-fingered, would-be assassin who lurches from Sarajevo to Paris to Hollywood to Chicago to Rio, leaving high-stakes chaos in his wake. Our hero, Dimitri Borja Korozec, is born in the late 1800s to a Brazilian contortionist mother and a fanatically nationalist Serbian linotypist father. Dimitri enrolls in a training school for assassins, where he excels—except for his troubling propensity for fouling things up at the last moment. Part Carlos the Jackal, part Woody Allen’s Zelig, part Inspector Clouseau, and part Forrest Gump, Dimitri is a schlemiel of an assassin and anarchist who can’t seem to kill anyone. He does, however, cause enough mayhem to help start World War I, spread Spanish influenza to the American continent, and unintentionally trigger various other significant events of the twentieth century by slipping and falling, misreading signs, and misunderstanding instructions. Along the way Dimitri runs into—and, sometimes, nearly over—a diverse cast of bit players: Mata Hari, Al Capone, Carmen Miranda, Marie Curie, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Irving Thalberg, George Raft, and even Aleister Crowley make their appearances. Jô Soares weaves the lives of his characters in and out of modern history, creating odd synchronicities, uncanny coincidences, and the impression that this “biography” might almost be true. True or not, it’s a laugh-out-loud romp that provides an intriguing new perspective on the history and major figures of our time, blurring the line between fact and fiction—a line which, had he encountered it on his way to an assassination, Dimitri would most certainly have tripped over.

Author : David MacGregor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1787056546
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes - The Hero With a Thousand Faces: Volume 2 written by David MacGregor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up the trail with the incredibly influential films of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Volume II goes on to explore the antiheroic Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, and then the somewhat rocky journey of Holmes into the medium of television (actors Alan Wheatley, Douglas Wilmer, and Peter Cushing all declared their respective TV series as the worst experience of their professional careers). Television finally found its "definitive" Holmes in Jeremy Brett's portrayal for Granada Television, and then the BBC's "Sherlock" had flashed brilliantly across the cultural sky before crashing and burning in spectacular fashion. Still, despite its ignominious end, Benedict Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock Holmes quite literally changed the face of Sherlockian fandom overnight, as studious middle-aged white men now found themselves sharing uneasy ground with a younger, more diverse, and more female audience. Now a full-fledged transmedia phenomenon, Sherlock Holmes can be any gender, ethnicity, or species, and is celebrated in fan fiction and fanvids, as well as conventions that are far more inclusive than Sherlock Holmes societies of the past. Vincent Starrett's poetic notion that Sherlock Holmes is a character "who never lived and so can never die" has never been more true, and the Digital Age promises any number of new versions of Sherlock Holmes to come.

Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 125007956X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be Sherlock written by Christopher Sandford and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective. There can be few (if any) literary creations who have found such a consistent yet evolving independent life as Holmes. He is a paradigm that can be endlessly changed yet always maintains an underlying consistent identity, both drug addict and perfect example of the analytic mind, and as Christopher Sandford demonstrates so clearly, in many of these respects he mirrors his creator.

Author : Marvin Kaye
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479437417
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 written by Marvin Kaye and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are: Features: From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D. Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson Non Fiction: SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman COP ROCK, by Eugene D. Goodwin THE LOVELY CASTOR BEAN, by O’Neill Curatolo CONAN DOYLE, HOLMES, WATSON, AND MEDICINE, by Bruce Kilstein, D.O., F.A.C.O.S FICTION THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SPIDER, by Stan Trybulski VOICES, by Michael Haynes INCIDENT AT PUERTO ANGEL, by Dianne Neral Ell TAKE-OUT, by Laird Long NERO WOLFE, PRO BONO, by Archie Goodwin THE SHED, by Ellen Wight CAREER TRANSITIONS, by Marian McMahon Stanley THE OCCURRENCE OF THE MARCHING MARIONETTE, by Teel James Glenn THE MAN BENEATH THE STREET, by Dana Martin Batory THE ADVENTURE OF THE CROOKED MAN, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle POETRY THE GRANDE MADAME, by Mackenzie Clarkes ART & CARTOONS Front Cover by Matias del Carmine Cartoon by Marc Bilgrey

Author : Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031531841
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holmes and the Ripper written by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466892218
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be Sherlock written by Christopher Sandford and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective. There can be few (if any) literary creations who have found such a consistent yet evolving independent life as Holmes. He is a paradigm that can be endlessly changed yet always maintains an underlying consistent identity, both drug addict and perfect example of the analytic mind, and as Christopher Sandford demonstrates so clearly, in many of these respects he mirrors his creator.

Author : Christopher Redmond
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705929
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Handbook written by Christopher Redmond and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes -- the characters and themes, the publishers and readers, Victorian London and the Houdini connection, radio actors and cartoonists, the fans who cling to Holmes's reality and the professors who tease out motifs from the fifty-six short stories and four novels. The first edition of Sherlock Holmes Handbook appeared in 1993. This edition catches up on new films, new books (a few with a hint of the supernatural) and the advent of the Internet, which has spread Holmes's fame and Sherlockian fun even further worldwide. The intervening years have brought three multi-volume editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with hundreds of footnotes providing new insights and new amusement. They have also seen Holmes repeatedly on the amateur and professional stages, including a few Canadian productions. And there have been changes to everything from copyright rules to libraries, booksellers and audio recordings.