The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes

by Dick Riley

Do you know Conan Doyle's original name for Sherlock Holmes? The real-life inspiration for Holmes? Who created the visual image most of us have of the great detective? Whom Jeremy Brett first played? (Clue: it wasn't Sherlock Holmes.) Sherlock Holmes is everywhere, like the air we breathe. His deerstalkered image peers from ads in the Yellow Pages, from the signs for neighborhood crime watch patrols, from billboards. He long ago transcended the boundaries of nineteenth-century London. Holmes is alive to millions throughout the world in books, on film, on television, and over the Internet. For the more casual reader of the timeless tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes is a psssst from the shadows, an index finger suspended in mid-air gesturing you to come, take a closer look. With nearly 200 illustrations, this Companion will let you in on the world of Holmes and the loyal, ever-dignified, Dr. Watson; the London of their day; the