- Detective and mystery stories, Influence, Criticism and interpretation, Sherlock Holmes
"Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention?
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About the book
- Author
- Mattias Boström
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 597
- Publisher
- The Mysterious Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802126603
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