The Sherlock Holmes Handbook
The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective
Author: Ransom Riggs and Eugene Smith Series: Quirk Books
Suitable for readers who dream of solving crimes in turn-of-the-century London, this handbook features skills that would-be sleuths should know: How to Use Deductive Reasoning, How to Analyze Fingerprints - Without Computers, How to Master a Dozen Disguises, How to Survive a Plunge over a Waterfall, and How to Fake Your Own Death.
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Summary
Suitable for readers who dream of solving crimes in turn-of-the-century London, this handbook features skills that would-be sleuths should know: How to Use Deductive Reasoning, How to Analyze Fingerprints - Without Computers, How to Master a Dozen Disguises, How to Survive a Plunge over a Waterfall, and How to Fake Your Own Death.
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Full of fascinating how-to skills and evocative illustrations, this must-have guide will appeal to Baker Street Irregulars of all ages.This reader's companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world's most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one's own death, readers will learn how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases-plus an arsenal of modern techniques available to today's armchair sleuths. Along the way, readers will discover a host of trivia about the master detective and his universe- Why did Holmes never marry? How was the real Scotland Yard organized? Was cocaine really legal back then? And why were the British so terrified of Australia?Fordie-hardSherlockians and amateur investigators alike, this handbook is nothing less than. . .elementary.
About the Author
Ransom Riggsis the author ofMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(Quirk, 2011), aNew York Timesbest seller with more than 5 million copies sold, as well as its best-selling sequelsHollow City(Quirk, 2013) andLibrary of Souls(Quirk, 2015). He lives in Santa Monica, CA, with his wife.
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