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Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments both imagined and genuine from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although Doyle wa ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: The Great Female Detectives, Crooks, and Villainesses by Michael Sims
$19.95 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Classics
An anthology devoted strictly to the pioneer female characters in crime fiction, the direct ancestors of everyone from Miss. Marple to V I Warshawski, as well as the great female criminal masterminds. It includes adventurous tales of women who refused to sit politely in the parlor and chat about fashion ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
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