Michael Atkinson
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The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes And Other Eccentric Readings
Michael Atkinson
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that most of us take for granted. But Arthur Conan Doyle’s master sleuth Sherlock Holmes became famous by taking nothing for granted. Author Michael Atkinson demonstrates that Holmes’s adventures can be read in new ways that Holmes himself might have found startling, but that promise to delight contemporary readers. In an engaging and original style, the book provides “a series of flirtations” with nine of Conan Doyle’s favorite detective fictions, using the tools of modern literary theory, from…
