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Lyndsay Faye
Lyndsay Faye is the author of critically acclaimed Dust and Shadow and the Timothy Wilde trilogy: the Edgar Award-nominated The Gods of Gotham, Seven For A Secret and The Fatal Flame. She is featured in Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, lives in Queens with her husband Gabriel.
Most acclaimed
Associates of Sherlock Holmes
The river of silence / Lyndsay Faye -- Pure swank / James Lovegrove -- Heavy game of the Pacific Northwest / Tim Pratt -- A dormitory haunting / Jaine Fenn -- The case of the previous tenant / Ian Edginton -- Nor hell a fury / Cavan Scott -- The case of the haphazard marksman / Andrew Lane -- The Presbury papers / Jonathan Barnes -- A flash in the pan / William Meikle -- The vanishing snake / Jeffrey Thomas -- A family resemblance / Simon Bucher-Jones -- Page turners / Kara Dennison -- Peeler / Nick Kyme.
The whole art of detection
Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, which pitted the famous detective against Jack the Ripper, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the very first Sherlock Holmes short story in 1891. Faye's best Holmes tales, including two new works, are brought together in The Whole Art of Detection, a stunning collection that spans Holmes's career, from self-taught young upstart to publicly lauded detective, both before and after his faked death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. In "The Lowther Park Mystery," the unsociable Holmes is forced to attend a garden party at the request of his politician brother and improvises a bit of theater to foil a conspiracy against the government. "The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel" brings Holmes's attention to the baffling murder of a jewel thief in the middle of an underground railway passage. With Holmes and Watson encountering all manner of ungrateful relatives, phony psychologists, wronged wives, plaid-garbed villains, and even a peculiar species of deadly red leech, The Whole Art of Detection is a must-read for Sherlockians and any fan of historical crime fiction with a modern sensibility.
Sherlock Holmes in America
Case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye -- Ghosts and the machine / Lloyd Rose -- Exerpts from an unpublished memoir found in the basement of the home for retired actors / Steve Hockensmith -- Flowers of Utah / Robert Pohle -- Adventure of the coughing dentist / Loren D. Estleman -- Minister's missing daughter / Victoria Thompson -- Case of Colonel Crockett's violin / Gillian Linscott -- Adventure of the White City / Bill Crider -- Recalled to life / Paula Cohen -- Seven walnuts / Daniel Stashower -- Adventure of the Boston Dromio / Matthew Pearl -- Case of the rival queens / Carolyn Wheat -- Adventure of the missing three quarters / Jon L. Breen -- Song at twilight / Michael Walsh -- Moriarty, Moran, and more: Anti-hibernian sentiment in the Canon / Michael Walsh -- How the creator of Sherlock Holmes brought him to America / Christopher Redmond -- Romance of America / A. Conan Doyle.