The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

{{Short description|2010 book by David Grann}}

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Doubleday

| release_date = 2010

| english_release_date = March 9, 2010

| media_type = Print (hardcover)

| pages = 350 pp

| isbn = 978-0-385-51792-8

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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession (2010) is a collection of 12 articles (essays) by American journalist David Grann.

Essays

The essays were previously published between 2000 and 2009 in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and The Atlantic, and have been "updated and revised".[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124495782 "Deception And 'The Devil And Sherlock Holmes'"], NPR, Talk of the Nation, March 9, 2010. The stories are about real-life mysteries, a "mosaic of ambition, deception, passion, and folly."The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, back-cover blurb, first edition.

Four of the stories have been filmed or optioned, and five of the stories have been collected in other "best" anthology volumes.See references in chart in this article. It is Grann's second book, after The Lost City of Z (2009) published the previous year, and his first collected anthology of essays.

Critical response

In The New York Times, Sam Roberts called the book "riveting."{{cite news|first=Sam|last=Roberts|title=Tales of Obsessions and Battles That Shaped the City|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 4, 2010}} Writing in Entertainment Weekly, critic Keith Staskiewicz gave the collection a grade of A: "This collection of David Grann's nonfiction, much of it from The New Yorker, is by turns horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish... These straightforward tales grip you as unrelentingly as the suckered appendages of the giant squid Grann attempts to track down in 'The Squid Hunter.' You might feel that some of the pieces skirt credibility, but remember, as Holmes himself once said, "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."{{cite magazine|first=Keith|last=Staskiewicz|title=The Devil and Sherlock Holmes|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=March 10, 2010}}

Editions

  • Grann, David. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. March 9, 2010. Doubleday. {{ISBN|978-0-385-51792-8}} (hardcover, first edition).

Contents

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!Year Published

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!Related articles

!Adaptations

01

|Part 1Part 1 motto: "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt." (Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face")

|Mysterious Circumstances

|2004

|The New Yorker, December 13, 2004.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstances |title=Mysterious Circumstances: The strange death of a Sherlock Holmes fanatic |magazine=The New Yorker |date=December 13, 2004 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}
The Best American Crime Writing 2005

|Richard Lancelyn Green, :Category:Sherlock Holmes

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02

|Part 1

|Trial by Fire

|2009

|The New Yorker, September 7, 2009.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire |title=Trial by Fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man? |magazine=The New Yorker |date=September 7, 2009 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|Cameron Todd Willingham

|Trial by Fire (2018), film directed by Edward Zwick{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edward-zwicks-trial-by-fire-lands-early-summer-release-date-1190540|title=Edward Zwick's 'Trial by Fire' Lands Early Summer Release Date From Roadside|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Pamela|last=McClintock|date=February 25, 2019|access-date=February 25, 2019}}

03

|Part 1

|The Chameleon

|2008

|The New Yorker, August 11, 2008.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann |title=The Chameleon: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin |magazine=The New Yorker |date=August 11–18, 2008 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|Frédéric Bourdin

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04

|Part 1

|True Crime

|2008

|The New Yorker, February 11, 2008.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime |title=True Crime: A postmodern murder mystery |magazine=The New Yorker |date=February 11–18, 2008 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009

|Krystian Bala

|Dark Crimes (2016), film directed by Alexandros Avranas

05

|Part 1

|Which Way Did He Run?

|2002

|The New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2002.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/magazine/which-way-did-he-run.html |title=Which Way Did He Run? |magazine=The New York Times Magazine |date=January 13, 2002 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|September 11 attacks

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06

|Part 2Part 2 motto: "A strange enigma is man!" (Sherlock Holmes in "The Sign of the Four")

|The Squid Hunter

|2004

|The New Yorker, May 24, 2004.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/24/the-squid-hunter |title=The Squid Hunter: Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature |magazine=The New Yorker |date=May 24, 2004 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|Giant squid, Steve O'Shea

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07

|Part 2

|City of Water

|2003

|The New Yorker, September 1, 2003.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/09/01/city-of-water |title=City of Water: Can an intricate and antiquated maze of tunnels continue to sustain New York? |magazine=The New Yorker |date=September 1, 2003 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|Sandhog, Water infrastructure of New York City

|Optioned for film by Paramount in 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118015268.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |title=Mastromauro finds Identity |work=Variety |author=Dave McNary |date=February 15, 2010 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121216135426/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118015268?refCatId=13 |archivedate=December 16, 2012 |url-status=dead}}

08

|Part 2

|The Old Man and the Gun

|2003

|The New Yorker, January 27, 2003.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/the-old-man-and-the-gun |title=The Old Man and the Gun: Forrest Tucker had a long career robbing banks, and he wasn't willing to retire |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 27, 2003 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}
The Best American Crime Writing 2004

|Forrest Tucker

|The Old Man & the Gun (2018), film directed by David Lowery

09

|Part 2

|Stealing Time

|2005

|The New Yorker, September 12, 2005.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/12/stealing-time-2 |title=Stealing Time: What makes Rickey Henderson run? |magazine=The New Yorker |date=September 12, 2005 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}
The Best American Sports Writing 2006

|Rickey Henderson

|

10

|Part 3Part 3 motto: "All that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe." (Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot")

|The Brand

|2004

|The New Yorker, February 16, 2004.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/02/16/the-brand |title=The Brand: How the Aryan Brotherhood became the most murderous prison gang in America |magazine=The New Yorker |date=February 16–23, 2004 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|Aryan Brotherhood

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11

|Part 3

|Crimetown, U.S.A.

|2000

|The New Republic, July 10, 2000.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/68973/crimetown-usa |title=Crimetown USA: The city that fell in love with the mob |magazine=The New Republic |date=July 10, 2000 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}
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|James Traficant

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12

|Part 3

|Giving the 'Devil' His Due

|2001

|The Atlantic, June, 2001.{{cite magazine |last=Grann |first=David |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/06/giving-the-devil-his-due/302234/ |title=Giving "The Devil" His Due |magazine=The Atlantic |date=June 2001 |access-date=February 25, 2011 }}

|Toto Constant

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Notes

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