The below essay doubles as the introduction to The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Holmes tales ever assembled, one that includes an array of surprising writers, from P.G. Wodehouse and August Derleth to Neil Gaiman and Anne Perry. In the essay, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, who also put the book together, illuminates the life and times of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “universally beloved” creation (except he was not so beloved, as you’ll see, by Conan Doyle himself) with humor and thoroughness. Even diehard Holmes fans are likely to find something here they never knew about the great detective.
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