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The Unique Hamlet
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An agitated, portly gentleman waddles down Baker Street toward 221B, his pockets sagging and his eyes wide with panic. From his window Sherlock Holmes diagnoses the man as a collector of rare books, on his way to ask for help finding a missing volume. The brilliant detective is correct, of course, but even he is taken aback when the nature of the work in question—a first folio of
, inscribed in Shakespeare's own hand—is revealed. As Holmes and his steadfast companion, Dr. Watson, investigate, they discover that rare-book collectors can be just as cunning and diabolical as any villain ever dreamed up by the Bard of Avon.
A founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and the author of an indispensible biography,
, Vincent Starrett combined a scholar's authority with a fan's enthusiasm in his appreciation of the great detective. No one was better suited to write a new adventure for Holmes and Watson, and
is both a loving homage and a thrilling mystery.
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Christopher Lutz
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“Well done. Captured the authentic feel of Sherlock Holmes short stories. A fun mystery to boot.”
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“<strong>For a Sherlock fan</strong>
Sherlock and Watson are called in by a book collector who was robbed of a rare Shakespeare folio.
This story tale is for fans of Holmes just as the writer Vincent Starrett was a fan of Holmes.
The good points are the moments of Holmes and Watson on the case.
The parts I didn't care for is that it was not much of a mystery, but then again it was not meant to be, it was a great tale written by a fan of Sherlock Holmes.”
About Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) was a Chicago journalist who become one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes. A books columnist for the
, he also wrote biographies of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, Starrett is best known for writing
(1933), an imaginative biography of the famous sleuth.
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