SHERLOCK, FACTS AND FICTION BEHIND THE WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE (THE WORLD OF SHERLOCK HOLMES)
Book ID/图书代码： 02670015B83246
English Summary/英文概要： This comprehensive and revealing book explores the fictional life of Sherlock Holmes and that of his real life creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle’s adventures featuring the genius Sherlock Holmes heralded the rise of the detective novel.
Along with his faithful sidekick, Dr Watson, Holmes solved a series of complex and intriguing fictional crimes and battled with his nemesis, the evil Moriarty, to the death and beyond. The World of Sherlock Holmes examines the stories and exposes the myths and reality of the era in which Conan Doyle’s mysteries were published, which saw the rise of Scotland Yard as a legendary organisation for criminal detection and huge advances in forensic medicine, the science of deduction and criminal analysis.
Sherlock Holmes’ popularity has never waned, and his silhouette with the deerstalker hat and pipe are recognisable over the world. To many, he is an eccentric, intellectual detective; but he had a far darker, more enigmatic side to his character - complex, solitary and prone to narcotic addition.
There have been countless cinema, television and stage adaptations of the stories, most recently the ambitious modern interpretation with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, in which Sherlock Holmes uses digital technologies to help him solve the crime.
The original BBC series has been distributed worldwide. In 2012, Lucy Liu also caused a stir by taking on the role of Watson opposite Johnny Lee Miller in another modern re-working, in the CBS series Elementary.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本书内容丰富，既有关于福尔摩斯这个虚拟人物的生活写照，也有关他的创造者亚瑟•柯南•道尔。道尔的所创作的福尔摩斯开创了侦探小说的先河。
在忠实伙伴华生医生的陪伴下，福尔摩斯解决了一系列复杂而吸引人的案件，并和对手、邪恶的莫里亚蒂教授展开了生死对决。本书展现了柯南•道尔写出这些案件和神秘事件当时的背景，包括苏格兰场如何成为了一个犯罪侦查的传奇机构，以及法医技术的飞速发展、演绎科学和犯罪分析手法的进步等等。
福尔摩斯的受欢迎程度一目了然，他戴着猎鹿帽、吸烟斗的侧影世界闻名。对很多人来说，他是一个性格古怪但智慧拔群的侦探，但他可能还有一个更加阴沉和神秘的第二性格，复杂，孤独，沉迷毒品的快感。
迄今已有很多大荧幕、电视和舞台作品改编自福尔摩斯的故事，其中Benedict Cumberbatch和Martin Freeman将数字技术应用到破案过程之中，是十分现代的演绎。BBC的这一系列作品已经全球发行。此外，2012年Lucy Liu也因为在CBS的系列剧中扮演华生的角色而引起过不小的轰动。(LYR)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Martin Fido在1960年代是牛津Balliol学院的英国文学研究学者，此后在利兹大学教授英语。他还曾在密歇根州立大学担任客座教授。如今他住在马塞诸塞州，在波士顿大学任教。他发表的《Short Illustrated Life of Dickens》被狄根思的研究者们称赞为狄根思过世后一个世纪以来最好的两本书之一。除了文学作品创作以外，他还发表了很多有关十九世纪小说家的文章，包括有关狄根思、萨克雷、简奥斯丁等等，但最著名的作品可能是有关开膛手杰克，以及他在1978年到2001年期间在LBC连载的广播剧“Murder After Midnight”。
Martin Fido was Andrew Bradley Junior Research Fellow in English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford in the 1960s, and thereafter taught English at the Universities of Leeds and the West Indies. He was also a visiting professor at Michigan State University. He now lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Boston University.
His Short Illustrated Life of Dickens was hailed by The Dickensian as one of the two best books marking the centenary of Dickens’ death. Besides his books on literature, he has published many articles dealing with nineteenth century novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, Disraeli and Jane Austen, but is probably best known for his work on Jack the Ripper and his LBC Radio series "Murder After Midnight" which ran from 1987 to 2001.
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