Holmes Reads Holmes: Reflections on the Real-Life Links Between the Jurist & the Detective in the Library, In the Courtroom, and on the Bat

by M H Hoeflich and Ross E. Davies

Starting in the Victorian Age, "Holmes" became a great name. First there was the best-selling essayist and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Then, as the 19th century turned to the 20th, his son Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. rose to fame as a judge, and, almost simultaneously, Sherlock Holmes rose to fame as a detective. The careers of those three Holmeses, and their respective reputations in both literature and in law, intertwined over seven decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616196475
• ISBN13: 9781616196479
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Talbot Publishing
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"