Sherlock Holmes. The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays

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PART ONE: The major Sherlock Holmes stories: From "A Study in Scarlet" -- Scandal in Bohemia Red-Headed League Case of Identity Boscombe Valley Mystery Five Orange Pips Man with the Twisted Lip Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Adventure of the Speckled Band Silver Blaze Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual Final Problem Adventure of the Empty House Dancing Men Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton Second Stain PART TWO: Contemporary critical essays: Sherlock Holmes : the series / Martin Priestman -- Reading for the plot / Peter Brooks -- Sherlock Holmes : ethics, logic, and the mask / Gian Paolo Caprettini -- The recoil of "The speckled band" : detective story and detective discourse / John A. Hodgson -- Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the dancing men and women / Alastair Fowler -- The case of the great detective / Stephen Knight -- Deconstructing the text : Sherlock Holmes / Catherine Belsey -- "The speckled band" : the construction of woman in a popular text of empire / Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan -- Detecting the beggar : Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and "The man with the twisted lip" / Audrey Jaffe.