Sherlock Holmes, the great Victorian detective, is an extraordinary, legendary creation who has fascinated people world wide for over a hundred years.Here, in this collection of essays about the sleuth, by well known Kelvin I Jones, ranges far and wide, providing the readers with fascinating facts about Holmes, his life and times and the forensic details of the stories.
A collection of atmospheric and chilling crime tales, all set in East Anglia by crime writer Kelvin Jones. Each tale in this first volume utilises the haunted landscape of the east to particular effect. Also featuring the first appearance of DCI Ketch, the Norwich detective.
A shocking account of the savage world in which Sherlock Holmes operated. The crimes of The Ripper; Conan Doyle's knowledge of the killer's identity; the methods employed by criminals, and of their pursuers; the harrowing truth about Holmes' drug abuse, and of his gang of 'street arabs', the long-lost crime monographs by the Baker Street sleuth; and much more, this book tells the true story of Holmes' gas-lit and sinister criminal world. "Victorian society was violent & exploitive..., footpads and garrotters stalked the streets of the City...beggars were rife.". Kelvin is the author of many books about Holmes, the definitive biography of Doyle as a spiritualist & the 3 volume edition of the author's spiritualist writings. A distinguished life member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, he has published contemporary crime novels and poetry, and is a member of the Crime Writers' Association. "The almost legendary Mr Jones..."- Roger Johnson, commissioning ed. of The Sherlock Holmes Journal. "Kelvin Jones takes the reader into Victorian England, walking side by side with the Great Detective..., an all-round, relentless researcher..." - Mark Alberstaat, ed. of Canadian Holmes.
Kelvin I. Jones has been writing about Sherlock Holmes for over 50 years, and studied the real-life crime, criminals and criminalistics of the late Victorians. Kelvin's forensic approach has already made a significant impact on the Holmes aficionado, previous titles including ‘The Sherlock Holmes Murder Files,' etc. However, the first of this three volume magnum opus on Holmes and crime covers absolutely everything that the reader fresh to, or even more familiar with Holmes wants to know about the murder and mayhem of his age. And there is much more. We learn about the poisoners, the prostitutes, the garrotters, the psychopaths and the abductors; in fact the whole panoply of the dangerous criminal underworld once lorded over by Moriarty. This exhaustive study, with its grim descriptions of the savage criminals of that age, is portrayed in graphic, uncompromising detail. What also emerges is a profile of the real Conan Doyle. Here is a profile of an author who knew more than is assumed about crime; and the book includes an examination of the Ripper, plus Conan Doyle’s theories on the murderer’s identity. Profusely illustrated, with many rare illustrations from 19th Century documents. Overall, a stunning contribution to the literature about Holmes, by someone who David Marcum, the editor and author of Holmes pastiches, once described as ‘a Master Sherlockian.’
A shocking account of the savage world in which Sherlock Holmes operated. The crimes of The Ripper; Conan Doyle's knowledge of the killer's identity; the methods employed by criminals, and of their pursuers; the harrowing truth about Holmes' drug abuse, and of his gang of 'street arabs', the long-lost crime monographs by the Baker Street sleuth; and much more, this book tells the true story of Holmes' gas-lit and sinister criminal world. "Victorian society was violent & exploitive..., footpads and garrotters stalked the streets of the City...beggars were rife.". Kelvin is the author of many books about Holmes, the definitive biography of Doyle as a spiritualist & the 3 volume edition of the author's spiritualist writings. A distinguished life member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, he has published contemporary crime novels and poetry, and is a member of the Crime Writers' Association. "The almost legendary Mr Jones..."- Roger Johnson, commissioning ed. of The Sherlock Holmes Journal. "Kelvin Jones takes the reader into Victorian England, walking side by side with the Great Detective..., an all-round, relentless researcher..." - Mark Alberstaat, ed. of Canadian Holmes.
Kelvin I. Jones has been writing about Sherlock Holmes for over 50 years, and studied the real-life crime, criminals and criminalistics of the late Victorians. Kelvin’s forensic approach has already made a significant impact on the Holmes aficionado, previous titles including ‘The Sherlock Holmes Murder Files,’ etc. However, the first of this three volume magnum opus on Holmes and crime covers absolutely everything that the reader fresh to, or even more familiar with Holmes wants to know about the murder and mayhem of his age. And there is much more. We learn about the poisoners, the prostitutes, the garrotters, the psychopaths and the abductors; in fact the whole panoply of the dangerous criminal underworld once lorded over by Moriarty. This exhaustive study, with its grim descriptions of the savage criminals of that age, is portrayed in graphic, uncompromising detail. What also emerges is a profile of the real Conan Doyle. Here is a profile of an author who knew more than is assumed about crime; and the book includes an examination of the Ripper, plus Conan Doyle’s theories on the murderer’s identity. Profusely illustrated, with many rare illustrations from 19th Century documents. Overall, a stunning contribution to the literature about Holmes, by someone who David Marcum, the editor and author of Holmes pastiches, once described as ‘a Master Sherlockian.’
The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada. Contributors included in the original, and now much sought after, editions included the renowned radio writer, Michael Hardwick, Godfrey Hunt, Michael Kean, Catherine Cooke, crime writer David Stuart Davies, and that doyen of pastiche writers, Denis O Smith, George Cleve Haynes, Kelvin I Jones and the present editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, Roger Johnson. This new enlarged version features additional material by such luminaries as Glen Miranka (the world's biggest Doyle/Holmes collector), Wendy Heyman Warsaw (Canada), Glen Harris et al. This bumper edition is a great delight for the followers of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
Better known as an authority on Conan Doyle's spiritualist work, this remarkable selection of the poetry of Kelvin I Jones' covers a period of thirty years, comprising works that deal with many disparate themes, including grief, eroticism, personal loss, tragedy, and the horrendous effects of nuclear war, often understated but with a revealing and evocative poignancy. Sumptuously illustrated by the work of two artists whose work is arresting and unforgettable, this is a volume of verse that, as a critic once commented, proves Jones to be a poet with the all - seeing 'third eye.
After the death of the world's greatest private consulting detective, Mr Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, among his personal effects unearthed by his brother Mycroft was a series of monographs on all aspects of criminal investigation. These were subsequently edited by his colleague and friend, Dr John H. Watson and remained in the possession of Mycroft and his descendants for many decades thereafter.Holmes had originally intended to collate and edit his observations under the title of a single volume: 'The Art of Detection.' The present series has been scrupulously re-edited by renowned British Sherlockian, Kelvin I Jones. A fascinating and illuminating study of the forensic criminology of the late 19th Century.Previous plaudits for Kelvin I Jones' previous works on Sherlock Holmes.
Volume 3 of this extraordinary Victorian record of sexual obsession provides a remarkable insight into the nature of the anonymous author, Walter. Comprising over 1 million words, this unique document was published privately in an age when such frankness and explicit sexual description was virtually impossible to achieve in conventional society. Two years prior to the publication of this autobiography, the German psychiatrist, Kraft Ebbing, published his voluminous study of what was conceived then as sexual aberration, entitled Psychopathia Sexualis. Conventional medicine regarded the condition experienced by the author as "Satyriasis," a mind state which could not be controlled by willpower alone. In this third volume, the author describes his juvenile experiences with a number of different women, principally those of the working class with whom he came into contact on many occasions. By his late teens, the author was already paying for sex and would continue to do so during the course of his adult life. This was not unusual, as was revealed for example, in the trials of Oscar Wilde, who frequently paid for the services of "rent boys". This edition features an introduction by Kelvin I Jones, the renowned Sherlock Holmes scholar, and author of a biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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