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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook
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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook (2009) (edit title/settings)

The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective

by Ransom Riggs (Author) (edit contributors)

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The first Sherlock Holmes adventure appeared in 1887, but today the detective is more popular than ever—witness the upcoming release date of Sherlock Holmes , starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. For every reader who dreams of solving crimes in turn-of-the-century London, The Sherlock... read more

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Introduction
Part I. Detective Skills
1. How to use Analytical Reasoning
- Sherlock Holmes, Scientist
2. How to Question a Suspect
3. How to Decode Ciphers
4. How to Analyze Footprints
- The Creatures of Sherlock Holmes's World
5. How to Locate a Secret Chamber
6. How to Examine a Body at a Crime Scene
7. How to Analyze Bullet Evidence
- Victorian Firearms
8. How to Crack a Safe
- The Crimes of Sherlock Holmes
9. How to Analyze Fingerprints
- Scotland Yard
10. How to Analyze Topography
- 221B Baker Street

Part II. Survival Skills
1. How to Defend Yourself
- The Sporting Life
2. How to Outwit a Criminal Mastermind
- Will the Real Moriarty Please Stand Up?
3. How to Fake Your Own Death
- The Great Hiatus
4. How to Survive a Plunge over a Waterfall
- Curious Maladies and Quack Medicines of the Victorian Era
5. How to Disguise Yourself
- Victorian Fashion
6. How to Cover Your Tracks

Part III. Life Skills
1. How to Stage a Dramatic Entrance
- The Real Sherlock Holmes
2. How to Sniff Out a Hoax
- Secret Societies and the Criminal Underworld
- Spiritualism and the Occult
3. How to Deal with Friends and Relations
- Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's Smarter Sibling
4. How to Manage Children
5. How to Keep Your Mind Sharp
- Sherlock Holmes and Music
- Opium Dens and Narcotics in the Victorian Era
6. How to Interact with Royalty
7. How to Raise Bees

Appendix.
1. Briefly, the Life and Times of Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Sherlock Holmes
3. The Sherlock Holmes Canon

About the Author.
Acknowledgments.

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  1. Ransom Riggs (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Quirk Books
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Publication Date: September 1, 2009
ISBN: 9781594744297
Page Count: 224

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