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I, Sherlock Holmes: Memoirs of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, OM, late consulting private detective-in-ordinary to their majesties

por Michael Harrison

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"In 1915, at the height of his career, Sherlock Holmes wrote his Memoirs and deposited the manuscript for safekeeping at the British Museum. Released by the Museum sixty years later, the manuscript has now been edited by the world's leading authority on Holmes. To Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes was the best and wisest man that Watson had ever known. But what was he really like -- this man of modest birth who made himself the most famous private detective of all time, trusted agent, friend and confidant of the Great? Here is the great sleuth's own fearless analysis of his complex nature: his drug-taking; his ambitions; his reasons for not marrying; and his passion for the One Woman who would always be beyond his reach. The Memoirs are full of surprises even for confirmed Holmesians, revealing aspects of Holmes's life that neither Dr Watson nor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were aware of. For instance, they show that the most powerful influence in shaping Homes's career, by finding him illustrious clients, was the American financier William H. Vanderbilt. But if the Memoirs take us into a world of wealth and power, there is another world with which Holmes became equally well acquainted: that raffish demimonde his half-dozen carefully contrived 'other selves' could penetrate without endangering the life -- of reputation -- of Sherlock Holmes. The adventures of these masquerade characters, ranging from 'a groom out of livery' to a female temperance campaigner, throw new and amusing light on Holmes's 'undercover' activities. Holmes touches only occasionally in these Memoirs on his actual methods of detection; he is concerned primarily with describing the world in which he flourished, and his place in it. Almost every great name in modern history up to World War I -- in the United States as well as in the Old World -- appears in the dramatis personae of Sherlock Holmes's astonishing life."--Goodreads… (más)
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The "Facts" are here, but I've had more fun reading the biographical footnotes in "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes", or the masterly biography of Horatio Hornblower by C. Northcote Parkinson. Feel no shame in giving this book the go-by. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Jul 16, 2014 |
Review: This pseudo-autobiography of Sherlock Holmes is a somewhat elliptical tale that orbits between Holmes’ youth and the Great Hiatus more by topic than chronology. It is an interesting book, but makes for heavy reading, especially for modern readers not used to the density of Dickens or Hugo. Like Dickens, Harrison will often wander off to give additional historic details right in the middle of a particular story... I was disappointed to note that although Harrison borrows heavily from William S, Baring-Gould’s Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, especially in the details of Holmes’ youth, no credit is given to Baring-Gould in the book. I guess that speaks to how well Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street has infiltrated into the Sherlockian/Holmesian consciousness. Sometimes people confuse what Baring-Gould appended to the Canon with the Canon itself. But I think it is important to give credit where credit is due.
The narrator is a likeable and interesting person, but I could not quite bring myself to believe that it was in fact Sherlock Holmes himself who was writing this rambling tale.
Whether you agree with Harrison’s characterizations of Holmes or Watson, the book is chocked full of details of the late Victorian era including many scandals of the day. Those make for interesting reading and in the end you may come away knowing more about Victorian scandals than about either Holmes or Watson.
Reviewed by: Darlene Cypser, June 2005
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"In 1915, at the height of his career, Sherlock Holmes wrote his Memoirs and deposited the manuscript for safekeeping at the British Museum. Released by the Museum sixty years later, the manuscript has now been edited by the world's leading authority on Holmes. To Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes was the best and wisest man that Watson had ever known. But what was he really like -- this man of modest birth who made himself the most famous private detective of all time, trusted agent, friend and confidant of the Great? Here is the great sleuth's own fearless analysis of his complex nature: his drug-taking; his ambitions; his reasons for not marrying; and his passion for the One Woman who would always be beyond his reach. The Memoirs are full of surprises even for confirmed Holmesians, revealing aspects of Holmes's life that neither Dr Watson nor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were aware of. For instance, they show that the most powerful influence in shaping Homes's career, by finding him illustrious clients, was the American financier William H. Vanderbilt. But if the Memoirs take us into a world of wealth and power, there is another world with which Holmes became equally well acquainted: that raffish demimonde his half-dozen carefully contrived 'other selves' could penetrate without endangering the life -- of reputation -- of Sherlock Holmes. The adventures of these masquerade characters, ranging from 'a groom out of livery' to a female temperance campaigner, throw new and amusing light on Holmes's 'undercover' activities. Holmes touches only occasionally in these Memoirs on his actual methods of detection; he is concerned primarily with describing the world in which he flourished, and his place in it. Almost every great name in modern history up to World War I -- in the United States as well as in the Old World -- appears in the dramatis personae of Sherlock Holmes's astonishing life."--Goodreads

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