Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates written by Donald Redmond and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-03-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the publishing history of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tracing the story of the first two Holmes novels, which were widely pirated in the U.S. from 1890-1930. The book details the background that enabled piracy to occur and provides extensive descriptive lists of the various issues of A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. The American issues are described in detail, with defects and inconsistencies clearly documented. Also included is a genealogical tree that traces the editions of these novels and thorough examples of their textual variations.