Buy this book on-line HARDWICK, MICHAEL: : SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE AND CRIMESLONDON.HARVILL PRESS,1984. ISBN 000272748X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,ink
owner name to front fep but no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear; negligible creasing to edges and light bumping+
rubbing to two top corners.Top+fore-edges clean,contents near pristine.Green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean, plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-208pp includes half+title pages,b/w vignette frntis,a prologue,profuse b/w contemporary photographs,illustrations+ diagrams throughout the text.
Sherlock Holmes settled back into his chair,filled his pipe with his favourite tobacco and,with a nightcap glass in his hand,found his mind drifting back over the career that had made him the most famous detective in the world.Although his old friend Dr Watson believed that he had chronicled faithfully any of his cases, the time had come when finally he must set
the record straight.His thoughts went back
to the beginning: his methodical self- training to become a detective,followed by an apprenticeship with the famous Pinkerton Agency in Chicago; the experiences with women that led to his determined bachelorhood; his first meeting with Watson in the laboratory at Bart's Hospital; and the move to Baker Street,to begin their long partnership in adventure.
Holmes did not scruple to mislead his friend when it suited his purposes and as he began to jot down some memories,he found himself reliving events that he had not confided to anyone,even Watson.
Above all,Holme's thoughts continually returned to his confrontation with his lifelong enemy,Professor Moriarty,at the Reichenbach Falls.He decided after so many years he could safely ignore the Official Secrets Act and reveal the sensational details of what really happened at the Falls and during the three 'missing' years before he turned up again in Dr Watson's rooms in London.The events of those three years make dramatic reading and explain why,though he survived them,Holmes was never to be quite the same again.
'SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE AND CRIMES' is the first totally convincing account of the great man's life and evokes magnificently a vanished world.Every reader of Watson's version of Holmes's great cases will want to have the master's own record which contains much vital information never previously put before the public.
A particularly important study of Sherlock Holmes and his world, by the noted Sherlockian scholar Michael Hardwick (b. 1924-d. 1991),who is also the author of 'The Sherlock Holmes Companion.'
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