Donald Serrell Thomas
Auteur van The Victorian Underworld
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Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective (2009) 143 exemplaren
An underworld at war : spivs, deserters, racketeers & civilians in the Second World War (1887) 66 exemplaren
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective (2010) 55 exemplaren
Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service (Pegasus Crime) (2013) 41 exemplaren
The Everyman Book of Victorian Verse: The Post-Romantics (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (1954) 26 exemplaren
The Everyman Book of Victorian Verse: The Pre-Raphaelites to the Nineties (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (1993) 8 exemplaren
Rotten to the Core?: The Life and Death of Neville Heath (Crimes of the Century) (1988) 3 exemplaren
The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes: Three Volumes of Detection and Suspense (Pegasus Crime) 2 exemplaren
Flight of the Eagle: 2 1 exemplaar
Summer in the Country 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Thomas, Donald Serrell
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Selwyn, Francis
- Geboortedatum
- 1926
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Somerset, England, UK
- Opleiding
- Queen's College, Taunton
Oxford University (Balliol College) - Beroepen
- Professor Emeritus of English Literature (Cardiff University)
fiction writer
non-fiction writer - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Eric Gregory Award (1962)
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The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes Three Volumes… door Donal Thomas
The first part of this book, The Secret Cases, should have remained secret, wIth Holmes smug, haughty and impotent, unable to influence anything worthwhile. I kept reading, but every story had the same Holmes where we're lucky to get no more than one useless input each. Needless to say, I did not finish this book.
So-so collection of material on crime in Victorian-era England. The chapters on prostitution and pornography aren't terribly interesting, and while the chapters on burglary and murder are rather more interesting, it's pretty much a rehash of what you can find in other books. All right, but nothing particularly spectacular.
I finished this book a couple weeks ago and honestly I don't remember much of the story. It's an acceptable Sherlock book though.
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1775-1860, was a legend in his lifetime and this brilliant biography makes clear that he achieved enough to fill several lifetimes, firstly as a audacious and brilliant naval tactician, in the final years of the struggle against Napoleon, but also as a politician, reformer and inventor. He also found time to act as a mercenary Admiral, playing a vital role in the independence struggles of Peru, Chile, Brazil and also, latterly, Greece. There are darker aspects to Cochrane's story, who was involved in a murky stock Exchange scandal and was an unabashed admirer of Napoleon but, all in all, a very remarkable individual indeed.… (meer)
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