{"product_id":"9781101870891","title":"The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella \u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter); and parodies by Conan Doyle’s contemporaries A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, and O. Henry, not to mention genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoy \u003ci\u003eThe Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Over a century’s worth of cases, from Conan Doyle’s 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey” (2011)\u003cbr\u003e-  Appearances by those other great detectives Hercule Poirot and C. Auguste Dupin\u003cbr\u003e-  15 Edgar Award–winning authors and 5 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters\u003cbr\u003e-  Stories by Laurie R. King, Colin Dexter, Anthony Burgess, Anne Perry, Stephen King, P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, and many, many more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030344122608,"sku":"9781101870891","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101870891_p0.jpg?v=1763689563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101870891","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}