Sherlock Holmes
A Double Barreled Detective Story
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · August 20, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- Mark Twain turns Holmes’s methodical detective work into a sharp parody of the mystery genre.
- Genres
- Satire, Short Stories (Single Author), Mystery
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, August 20, 2013
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A Double Barreled Detective Story by Mark Twain features Sherlock Holmes in the American west. Twain uses Sherlock Holmes to brilliantly parody the entire mystery genre. Holmes slavishly employs the scientific method to a ridiculous degree and to a widely incorrect conclusion while attempting to solve a crime.
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Holmes nephew, Fetlock Jones, provides us with Twain's opinion of Holmes: "Anybody that knows him the way I do knows he can't detect a crime except where he plans it all out beforehand and arranges the clues and hires some fellow to commit it according to instructions." Fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Mark Twain will be delighted by this wonderful book.
Mystery, Misfired
Mark Twain turns Holmes’s methodical detective work into a sharp parody of the mystery genre.
Come here for
- A Sherlock Holmes mystery filtered through Mark Twain’s comic eye
- Scientific rigor taken to wonderfully wrong conclusions
Expect
- A playful collision of detective fiction and satire
- A send-up of clues, methods, and confident conclusions
Where it sits
| Satire | 74% |
|---|---|
| Mystery | 43% |
| Short Stories (Single Author) | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Romance Adventure
- Authors
- Mark Twain
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- August 20, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure