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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

  • 199 pages ยท about 3 hours
  • First published 1933
  • 12 editions

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1 About this book

This work has long been out of print. In fact, those few copies found in the last decade have often brought prices usually attached to rare books and curiosa. The original edition was first published by Macmillan in 1933. Mr. Starrett revised and enlarged the work for a University of Chicago edition in 1960. Throughout the world this book is still recognized as the definitive study of Sherlock Holmes.

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  • Mystery
  • Private investigators
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Arthur Conan Doyle

2 About Vincent Starrett

1886โ€“1974

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (; October 26, 1886 โ€“ January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile.

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