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Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
Category: Biography Memoir
2018 Edgar Award NomineeShortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers AssociationFrom Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective stor ...Show more
Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
Category: Biography
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
Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes (HB) by Michael Sims
Category: Biography
From the acclaimed author of The Adventures of Henry Thoreau and The Story of Charlotte's Web comes the new story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the mind behind Sherlock Holmes and the creator of the modern detective novel As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied ...Show more
DRACULA'S GUEST by Michael Sims
Category: Fiction
Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their blood thirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Michael Sims brings together the very best va ...Show more
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories by Michael Sims
Category: Fiction | Series: The Connoisseur's Collections
Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sim ...Show more
Frankenstein Dreams A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction by Michael Sims
Category: Fiction | Series: The Connoisseur's Collections
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest. Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The g ...Show more
Gray Hat Hacking: the Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition by Allen Harper; Daniel Regalado; Ryan Linn; Stephen Sims; Branko Spasojevic; Linda Martinez; Michael Baucom; Chris Eagle; Shon Harris
Category: Non-Fiction
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Cutting-edge techniques for finding and fixing critical security flaws Fortify your network and avert digital cata ...Show more
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims (Partners Andrew Aldridge, UK)
Category: Biography
"The Adventures of Henry Thoreau-"chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond after living in his long dreamed-of cabin for only two years--tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled young man found a mea ...Show more
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims
Category: Biography Memoir
Henry David Thoreau is an American intellectual icon; what made him so was the decade between his graduation from Harvard and the years he spent in a cabin he built himself on Ralph Waldo Emerson's land at Walden Pond--the formative decade that turned him into one of America's most influential writers. ...Show more
The Daily Sherlock Holmes - A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective by Arthur Conan Doyle; Levi Stahl (Editor); Stacey Shintani (Editor); Michael Sims (Foreword by)
Category: Gifts
"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us."How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.""How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment."Never mind," said he, ...Show more
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories by Michael Sims
Category: Fiction
The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead Witness', the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary ...Show more