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Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon.

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Professor McCaw, who teaches Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Winchester, has just produced an eminently readable compendium on 'the most portrayed human character' [Guinness World Records, 2012, quoted p. xiii]. The 'Dictionary' proper, organised in the classic A-Z way, is accompanied by an academic critical apparatus of the highest interest, the most innovative element being the 13-page 'Introduction' which strives to discover and explain why Sherlock Holmes 'has transcended his stories and taken on a life of its own' [2].-- Cercles

Professor McCaw, who teaches Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Winchester, has just produced an eminently readable compendium on 'the most portrayed human character' [Guinness World Records, 2012, quoted p. xiii]. The 'Dictionary' proper, organised in the classic A-Z way, is accompanied by an academic critical apparatus of the highest interest, the most innovative element being the 13-page 'Introduction' which strives to discover and explain why Sherlock Holmes 'has transcended his stories and taken on a life of its own' [2].--Cercles

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Neil McCaw is Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on various aspects of the C19th, crime and detective fiction, adaptation, the Digital Humanities, and television and film adaptation. He has been the Academic Director of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Lancelyn Green Bequest, one of the largest Holmes/Conan Doyle archives in the world, since 2005.

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