 | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Vols. 1 & 2 The Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £25.87 The latest Annotated edition of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories, aka 'The Canon'
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 | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Novels v. 3 by AC Doyle
Buy new: £28.50 / Used from: £17.50 The latest annotated edition of the Sherlock Holmes novels.
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 | The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by William Baring-Gould
Buy used from: £13.77 The first Annotated edition of the stories. Sherlockians will swear by Baring-Gould or dispute him, but they will quote this book as an authority.
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 | The World of Sherlock Holmes by Martin Fido
Buy new: £16.98 / Used from: £3.12 One of my favourite 'World of Sherlock Holmes' books. Profusely illustrated
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 | Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy used from: £12.97 Holmes has become a subject for scholarship, whether about Victorian/Edwardian life and crimes, the Detective in Literature, or his enduring status as an icon.
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| London of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison
Buy used from: £14.00 All of Michael Harrison's books are a must for background on Sherlock Holmes world. This one is my favourite.
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| Sherlock Holmes Companion by Michael Hardwick
Buy used from: £3.67 Another pair of authors who wrote about Sherlock and his world. They also wrote the 'Upstairs/Downstairs' books - another must read for background 'feel'.
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 | Dickens's Dictionary of London 1888: An Unconventional Handbook by Charles Dickens Jr.
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.48 I haven't read this one, but it was first published in 1888, so it's certainly appropriate.
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 | Baedekers Great Britain, 1890 (Baedeker's Great Britain) (Baedeker's Great Britain) by Karl Baedeker
Buy new: £11.19 / Used from: £7.50 This is reprinted? Oh, Amazon.co.uk has got such good stuff!! This is a must have!
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 | Enquire Within Upon Everything 1890: A Comprehensive Guide to the Necessities of Domestic Life in Victorian Britain by Houlston
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £10.35 Another reprint? I thought this was only in libraries! So many good books, so little shelf space.
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 | The Victorian Hospital (Shire Album) by Lavinia Mitton
Buy used from: £6.06 This may predate Dr. Watson's experience; but the Shire books are always informative.
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 | Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by John Thomson
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £9.54 Full of photographs. Holmes as an osler, or as Escott the plumber? These are the actual people.
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 | The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.95 This is a favourite, and since I can't find The 1900 House, I'll recommend this one though it's earlier than our period.
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 | Mrs.Beeton's Book of Household Management (Oxford World's Classics) by Isabella Beeton
Buy used from: £6.84 Although this is an abridgment of the 1860's 'Mrs. Beeton', and Mrs. Hudson would have had a later edn. this Oxford Press is a good affordable reference.
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 | Last Dinner on the Titanic Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner by Rick Archbold
Buy new: £16.90 / Used from: £7.23 Holmes last recorded case (by Doyle) was in 1914. This book has good ideas about life and food aboard the transatlantic liners of his later years.
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 | A Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Christopher Redmond
Buy used from: £50.54 From one of Canada's finest Sherlockians. I can't emphisize enough that you must know about Holmes to write about him.
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 | The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas
Buy used from: £19.59 This book and a simular one by Kellow Chesney are must haves for the seemy side of Victorian life.
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 | How to Write and Sell Historical Fiction by Persia Woolley
Buy used from: £22.62 A Sherlock Holmes story is as much historical as it is mystery fiction.
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 | Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain, 1901-14 by Jeffrey Green
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £20.00 Remember Steve Dixie? There is so little about Black British History. This is going on my must read list.
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 | Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey by Alison Gernsheim
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.00 Mostly pictures of women's clothing, but they are photos of real people of the time.
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| Life in Edwardian England (English Life S.) by Robert Cecil
Buy used from: £1.40 The Batsford Books publications are usually quite informative.
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| The Victorian and Edwardian City of London from Old Photographs by James L. Howgego
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| Fast Set: World of Edwardian Racing by George Plumptre
Buy used from: £2.44 Racing, boxing and the like were part of Doyle's life and find their way into the Canon.
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 | Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £8.10 Not everyone can write like Doyle, and usually those who try fail. But to write a mystery, you must study how mysteries are written. Who knows that better than mystery writers?
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 | Research for Writers (Writing Handbook) by Ann Hoffmann
Buy used from: £0.01 A writer's guide to research, and you have to do a lot of research when writing a historical story.
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