The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
{{Short description|2010 book by David Grann}}
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| pages = 350 pp
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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
Notes
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External links
- [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.
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100623095201/http://niemanstoryboard.us/2010/04/05/david-grann-on-murder-madness-and-writing-for-the-new-yorker/ "David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker"]}}, interview in Nieman Storyboard, April 5, 2010.
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Category:2010 non-fiction books