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Sherlock, by Martin Fido
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This comprehensive and revealing book explores the fictional life of Sherlock Holmes and that of his real life creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle's adventures featuring the genius Sherlock Holmes heralded the rise of the detective novel. Along with his faithful sidekick, Dr Watson, Holmes solved a series of complex and intriguing fictional crimes and battled with his nemesis, the evil Moriarty, to the death and beyond. The World of Sherlock Holmes examines the stories and exposes the myths and reality of the era in which Conan Doyle's mysteries were published, which saw the rise of Scotland Yard as a legendary organisation for criminal detection and huge advances in forensic medicine, the science of deduction and criminal analysis. Sherlock Holmes' popularity has never waned, and his silhouette with the deerstalker hat and pipe are recognisable over the world. To many, he is an eccentric, intellectual detective; but he had a far darker, more enigmatic side to his character - complex, solitary and prone to narcotic addition. There have been countless cinema, television and stage adaptations of the stories, most recently the ambitious modern interpretation with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, in which Sherlock Holmes uses digital technologies to help him solve the crime. The original BBC series has been distributed worldwide. In 2012, Lucy Liu also caused a stir by taking on the role of Watson opposite Johnny Lee Miller in another modern re-working, in the CBS series Elementary.
Sherlock, by Martin Fido- Amazon Sales Rank: #4950760 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-07
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.76" h x .87" w x 7.72" l, 1.75 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
About the Author Martin Fido was Andrew Bradley Junior Research Fellow in English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford in the 1960s, and thereafter taught English at the Universities of Leeds and the West Indies. He was also a visiting professor at Michigan State University. He now lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Boston University. His Short Illustrated Life of Dickens was hailed by The Dickensian as one of the two best books marking the centenary of Dickens' death. Besides his books on literature, he has published many articles dealing with nineteenth century novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, Disraeli and Jane Austen, but is probably best known for his work on Jack the Ripper and his LBC Radio series "Murder After Midnight" which ran from 1987 to 2001.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Yet Another Book on Dear Holmes! By Mike O'Connor Our fascination with Sherlock Holmes seems eternal. Even as new editions of Conan Doyle's classic tales are produced, other volumes are published exploring/detailing/dissecting the world's most famous consulting detective and his adventurous life and times. Martin Fido's SHERLOCK, THE FACTS AND FICTION BEHIND THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS DETECTIVE is one of the latest books to tackle Holmes and his creator. A 2015 Metro Books release, it should prove of interest to Holmes fans around the world.SHERLOCK tops off at 245 pages. After an opening chapter on 'The Life of Sherlock Holmes,' Fido details Arthur Conan Doyle's life followed by chapters on 'The Holmes Records' which detail the 56 short stories and four SH novels, 'Detectives and Criminals' on real-life crimes and criminals, 'Crime Fiction' which explores Holmes' fictional predecessors and successors and 'The Immortal Reputation' describing SH on stage, screen, radio and television.Given the wealth of books on Holmes, I still found Fido's book entertaining and informative. The enjoyable text was complimented by dozens of contemporary and vintage photographs and illustrations of Holmes, Watson, Doyle, Bell, London vistas, various literary notables, actors and actresses, etc. SHERLOCK is a fun read, sure to be enjoyed by Holmes aficionados. Recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interesting but annoying By The Reviewer "Sherlock" is also one of the most disjointed books of any kind I've read. When examining any subject, from illustrators, to actors, other authors and their works, and so on, Fido jumps around so much chronologically it is annoying. For example, in his chapter "Crime Fiction" he gives an overview of various authors that were rivals of Holmes or debtors to him. Fido goes on for nine pages about a variety of characters from Raffles, to Hercule Poirot, Philo Vance, Father Brown, Philip Marlowe and so on. In the process he interrupts the flow of his narrative with asides about Agatha Christie and Dorthy Sayers and others before finally mentioning Sexton Blake who first appeared in 1893! It would have been nice if he'd mentioned Sexton Blake when he he first brought up rivals of Sherlock Holmes at the beginning, and not after rather ludicrously including James Bond as being within the crime fiction genre and tenuously indebted to Holmes. According to Fido the Sexton Blake stories were written by "a sequence of hacks... well past the mid-century" without mention of the original author and creator, Harry Blyth, who died in 1898 which, by the way, is why others took up the stories. At any rate, the arrangement of the information he imparts does not follow a logical progression.The author makes suppositions about Doyle's sex life that are idiotic. He can't know what Doyle thought or felt about any subject outside of Doyle's own accounts let alone about any sexual frustrations Fido supposes. Fido infers that certain non-Holmes stories had sexual themes that revealed Doyle's own circumstances and mind set. It's ridiculous. I'd hazard that it reveals more about Fido's own psyche than Doyle's. He even goes so far as to say that Doyle's friends urged him to consummate his relationship with Jean Leckie. Right, Fido has somehow discovered the content of what must have been confidential conversations (if they ever occurred, which I doubt) that would have destroyed Doyle's and his friends' reputations. Fido doesn't reveal how he came upon this information. Considering Fido makes several errors in other areas I have no confidence he's right in this.Fido has the irritating habit of referencing authors' works without giving the reader the title. For instance, he makes reference to Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" without naming it. I only know what he's referring to because I recognized the publishing date he gives and the bits of plot he reveals. He writes a full paragraph about it without mentioning the name of the book and then moves on to Dorothy Sayers!There is an enormous amount of information in the book. Unfortunately it can not be relied on for accuracy. The one thing I'm certain of after reading Fido is that I can't be certain of his facts. He makes numerous errors about subjects I'm very familiar with. Therefore I can't trust the things he says about what I'm not as familiar with. For example he states that it is not possible to judge Arthur Wontner's performances in his series of Holmes movies made in the thirties because his films "...have not been given frequent re-airing on television like his successors." Well, that may be. However. for a supposed expert on all things Sherlockian it is surprising he doesn't know that of Wontner's five Sherlock Holmes films three have been available on DVD for well over a decade and an additional one more recently. Another example of an error is that he says Carleton Hobbs first played Holmes on radio in 1947 with Norman Shelley as Watson. He didn't. He played Watson to Wontner's Holmes in a radio play of "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" in 1943. In 1952 Hobbs and Shelley first played Holmes and Watson and continued to make 80 recordings until 1969. Referring to Peter Cushing he says, "The actor who casually swapped the roles of Dracula or the hero Harker with Christopher Lee...". What? Cushing never played Dracula or Harker or swapped the roles with Christopher Lee. Lee never played Harker. One more thing that isn't exactly an error but not accurate - He says Basil Rathbone "is said to have broadcast over 200 performances as Holmes." It is not said. It is a fact evidenced by the radio logs of Rathbone's performances. I could go on about other sections of the book but this should suffice to make my point.
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