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Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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
Frankenstein Dreams A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction by Michael Sims
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | 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
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Sims
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Collected here for the first time is the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present - Arsene Lupin and A.J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl - burgling London and Paris, conning New York and ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
$39.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | 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
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