The Great Detective (book)

The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes is a non-fiction book by Zach Dundas about Sherlock Holmes.

The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
First edition
AuthorZach Dundas
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNonfiction
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages336
ISBN978-0544214040 1st edition, hardcover

The book begins with the author's personal visit to the Sherlock Holmes Museum[1] and then progresses chronologically[2] through an exploration of Sherlock Holmes fandom, Sherlockian Societies such as The Baker Street Irregulars, and the Sherlockian game[3]

Reception

Julia Knaus, writing for Transformative Works and Cultures, called the work "a fascinating read".[4] Clea Simon of The Boston Globe appreciated the scholarship but found Dundas' use of personal memoir as framing device to be "the least interesting thread".[3] Kirkus Reviews called it "A bright read for Sherlock's fans".[5] Leslie S. Klinger, writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, found Dundas' account of Holmesian history "skillful" and said the book "feels like a long conversation with a new friend".[6]

See also

References
  1. "Book excerpt: 'The Great Detective' by Zach Dundas". Newsday. July 30, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  2. Monty, Scott (August 15, 2015). "Episode 80: The Great Detective". I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  3. Simon, Clea (June 22, 2015). "'The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes' by Zach Dundas". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  4. Knaus, Julia (2017). "The Great Detective, by Zach Dundas; Gender and the modern Sherlock Holmes, edited by Nadine Farghaly; and Sherlock Holmes, edited by Alex Werner". Transformative Works and Cultures (23). doi:10.3983/twc.2017.0968. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  5. "The Great Detective". Kirkus Reviews. March 2, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  6. Klinger, Leslie S. (June 30, 2015). "On Looking into Sherlock Holmes". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved December 21, 2019.


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