Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography

by Nick Rennison

Book Overview

He has been called a genius and a fraud, a hero and an addict. He advised kings in their glittering palaces, then disappeared into the darkest alleys of London's criminal underworld. He was (and remains) a global icon, but he could pass his most ardent fan on the street without a flicker of recognition. Who was this Sherlock Holmes? Nick Rennison gathers the clues of a life lived among the stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871139472
• ISBN13: 9780871139474
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A new twist?

I've been a Sherlock Holmes fan as far as I can remember and I've read my share of stories beyond the Canon, but am no means a scholar, so perhaps this idea has been done before and I was not aware of it. This is such a well written and though out bio on a man who never lived, but Rennison does a beautiful job of breathing life into Holmes and making him feel very real indeed. He helps fill in some of the gaps and give some very plausable explanations of some of Watson's little errors from the dates of events to his war wound(s) and even his wives. It also goes into to Moriarty, and Col. Moran, as well as Mycroft. It's a well rounded book and I am really impressed that Rennison was able to give Holmes a family and a "history" by the little info in the Canon. It's very obvious that Rennison is passionate about his subject. He could not have written such a convincing biography if he wasnt. If you want to read a great book about the man, this would be the one.