Daniel Stashower, a Doyle biographer, has penned a story-within-a-story-within-a-story in his new book “The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder.”
In 1841, Poe was drawn to the case of a murdered young woman who sold tobacco for a living. Broke as always, he approached the Ladies’ Companion and suggested [...]
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Ah, and once again we must raise the hackles of our friends in the Game by inferring that the Great Detective was imaginary. But either way, he ended up on a new list penned by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Slater in their book “The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived.”
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This from the news wire …
Denver, CO, October 23, 2006 –(PR.COM)– Outskirts Press, Inc. is pleased to bring you Flat at 221B Baker Street by Joseph R. Cammarata. This brand-new mystery features a descendent of the most famous detective in all of fiction—Sherlock Holmes. There have been many theatrical, cinematic, and literary adaptations of and [...]
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