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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession (Paperback)
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession (Paperback)
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Loot Price R210
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As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, 'If we could fly
out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently
remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going
on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the
wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading
to the most outreresults, it would make all fiction with its
conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and
unprofitable.' And with such a spirit for investigation and
discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although
Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing true stories
in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many
of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to
determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his
post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a
man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man
questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and
scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of
Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are
mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the
characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But
ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock
Holmesshed light on the human condition, and why some people on
this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes
put it, 'Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind
of man could invent'.
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