Nick Rennison Knihy

Lze napsat životopis fiktivní osoby? Nick Rennison, redaktor a spisovatel, to dokazuje na příkladu Sherlocka Holmese. Provádí nás jeho životem od dětství v Yorkshire až po poslední dny v Sussexu. Autor spojuje známá fakta s událostmi viktoriánské Anglie a přináší živý obraz detektiva, který pronásledoval nebezpečné zločince a po incidentu u Reichenbašských vodopádů, kdy byl považován za mrtvého, pracoval pro britskou vládu na tajných misích v Tibetu a Persii. Sledujeme jeho vyšetřování případu Jacka Rozparovače a odhalování intrik irských nacionalistů, kteří usilovali o život královny Viktorie, stejně jako jeho roli při formování britských tajných služeb. Nová fakta o jeho úhlavním nepříteli profesoru Moriartym a hlubší pohled na přátelství s doktorem Watsonem a vztah s bratrem Mycroftem přispívají k celkovému obrazu. Holmes je detektiv bez obdoby, jehož život je spojen s mnoha legendami, které autor potvrzuje nebo vyvrací. Zobrazuje ho jako výjimečného, ale chybujícího člověka, jehož vliv na britskou historii byl větší, než jak naznačuje Watson. Holmes usiloval o udržení společenského pořádku, ale zároveň ho fascinovaly temné stránky lidské povahy a jeho minulost skrývá mnohá tajemství.

Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography blends what we already know of the great sleuth's career with carefully documented social history to answer the questions admirers have long puzzled over. Nick Rennison reveals for the first time Holmes's influence on the political events of late 19th-century England and his connections to the British criminal underworld. It also brings to light his close friendships with key figures of the day, including Oscar Wilde and Sigmund Freud, and exposes the truth about his cocaine use.

More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Mile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Nevil Shute, are arranged in alphabetical order, each with a short article on style, influences, settings, theme, along with a list of their salient works. At the end of each entry, a Read On" section directs readers to similar works by other authors."

The book presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary British novelists, highlighting prominent authors such as Iain Banks, Jeanette Winterson, and Salman Rushdie. Each entry provides essential biographical details and insightful analyses of their major works and themes. With extensive cross-referencing and recommendations for further reading, it serves as an invaluable resource for students and enthusiasts of modern British fiction, offering a clear entry point into the diverse literary landscape of contemporary Britain.

It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is not pleased. The visitor's arrival pitches Carver and Quint headlong into an elaborate mystery which comes to centre on the existence (or not) of a lost text in Ancient Greek, one that may reveal the whereabouts of the treasure hoard of Philip II of Macedonia. Two deaths soon ensue as master and manservant follow what clues they can grasp in the roughest and most genteel parts of the teeming metropolis, with the whiff of cordite and blackmail never far from their nostrils. The scene shifts to Athens and the wilder fastness of a Greece gripped by political unrest as Carver and Quint join forces with Adam's former Cambridge tutor in an attempt to track down the elusive text. But nothing is quite what it seems, and no one involved is prepared for the final, shocking denouement amidst the extraordinary hilltop monasteries of Meteora...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. There were countless imitators in the genre, and this volume highlights some of those 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'.

A large number of people every year make their reading decisions on the basis of shortlists for major prizes like the Booker and Orange Prize for Fiction. This new title in the successful Must-Read Series provides an overview of fiction which has won prizes over the decades.

"Sherlock Holmes was the most famous detective to stride through the pages of late Victorian and Edwardian fiction, but he was not the only one. He had plenty of rivals. Some of the most memorable of these were women: they were "Sherlock's Sisters." This exciting, unusual anthology gathers together 15 stories written by women or featuring female detectives. They include Dorcas Dene, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Hagar the Gypsy, Judith Lee and Madelyn Mack. Editor Nick Rennison has already compiled several highly entertaining collections of stories from what he considers a golden age of crime fiction, including The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Supernatural Sherlocks. His latest anthology turns the spotlight on the women detectives who could more than match their male counterparts" --Amazon.ca

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals. Between 1890 and 1920, American writers created dozens and dozens of crime-solvers. This thrilling, unusual anthology features stories about 15 of them, including Professor Augustus SFX Van Dusen, 'The Thinking Machine', even more cerebral than Holmes; Craig Kennedy, the so-called 'scientific detective'; Uncle Abner, a shrewd backwoodsman in pre-Civil War Virginia; Violet Strange, New York debutante turned criminologist; and Nick Carter, the original pulp private eye. Editor Nick Rennison gathers together often neglected tales which highlight American crime fiction's early years.