''The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession'' (2010) is a collection of 12 essays by American journalist

David Grann David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and a best-selling author. His first book, '' The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon,'' was published by D ...

Essays

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'', March 9, 2010. The stories are about real-life mysteries, a "mosaic of ambition, deception, passion, and folly."

Anthologies

Four of the stories have been filmed or optioned, and five of the stories have been collected in other "best" anthology volumes. It is Grann's second book, after '' The Lost City of Z'' (2009) published the previous year, and his first collected anthology of essays.

Critical response

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'', critic Keith Staskiewicz gave the collection a grade of A: "This collection of David Grann's nonfiction, much of it from ''The New Yorker'', is by turns horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish... These straightforward tales grip you as unrelentingly as the suckered appendages of the giant squid Grann attempts to track down in 'The Squid Hunter.' You might feel that some of the pieces skirt credibility, but remember, as Holmes himself once said, ''Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.'"Keith Staskiewicz, "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes," ''Entertainment Weekly'', March 10, 2010.

Editions

*Grann, David. ''The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession''. March 9, 2010. Doubleday. (hardcover, first edition).

Notes

External links

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