Summary: In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECHGeni, Abby.
Summary: A remarkable series of stories unified around one theme: people who use the interface between the human and the natural world to contend with their modern challenges in love, loss, and family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENSummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONConnelly, Michael
Summary: Baseball is the background for both stories. Two Bagger is the story of a parolee who feels he owes the gang for helping him when he was in jail, but he learns that they expect him to kill someone at Dodger Stadium. Chickasaw Charlie Hoke is a story of a former Major Leaguer who is trying to land a job as a celebrity host at a casino in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONContents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEASummary: Presents a collection of stories by popular authors whose work inside and outside of the mystery genre has been influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICSummary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011