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Italy and Sherlock Holmes provides the best non-fiction Holmesian writing from Italy to a larger English-reading audience.  Italian Sherlockians and BSIs Enrico Solito and Gianlucca Salvatore edited this anthology, the fourth title in the Baker Street Irregulars International Series.

This volume contains scholarly essays on such topics as European political intrigue in the Victorian era, speculations on Holmes's travels in Italy, and the historical origins of such canonical names as Cardinal Tosca and Carina.  Featuring the unique voice in which Italian Holmesians "play the game," Italy and Sherlock Holmes attests to the remarkable popularity of the great detective.

208 pages, hardcover, December 2010
With more than 20 photographs & illustrations

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Table of Contents
Contributor Biographies (PDF)
Book Excerpt: The Hunting of the Snark (PDF)
Index to Italy and Sherlock Holmes (PDF)
BSI Books Collected Index

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Table of Contents

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
by Michael F. Whelan

PART 1: ITALIANS AND SHERLOCK HOLMES
Introduction
by Gianluca Salvatori and Enrico Solito

Notes on the Italian Sherlockscape
by Alessandra Calanchi

PART 2: HOLMES'S TRAVELS IN ITALY
The Great Journey: From Meiringen to Florence
by Enrico Solito

PART 3: FOREIGN INTRIGUE
The Italian Mystery of The Naval Treaty
by Roberto Pirani

Sherlock Holmes in Milan
by Carlo Oliva

The Great Hiatus: Five Hypotheses for Five Mysteries
by Luca Martinelli

Sherlock Holmes as Peacekeeper
by Giovanni Cappellini

PART 4: CANONICAL IDENTIFICATIONS
The True Identity of Cardinal Tosca
by Luca Martinelli

The Hunting of the Snark
by Enrico Solito

PART 5: SCHOLARLY PONDERINGS
Between Antigone and Creon: Holmes, Law and Justice
by Stefano Guerra

Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of Criminal Science
by Sergio Agostinis

Sherlock Holmes and the Social Sciences
by Luca Critelli

"The Norwood Builder" and the Fingerprints
by Ivo Lombardo

Children and Sherlock Holmes
by Stefano Guerra

The Wax Vesta in the Mud Mystery: Holmes's Mistakes
by Stefano Guerra

A Study in Violin: The Panaveggio Connection
by Enrico Solito

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Canada
by Alessandro Gebbia

APPENDICES
Appendix A: On the Phone with Sherlock Holmes
interview by Gianluca Salvatori

Appendix B: The Bust in Sesto Fiorentino
by Enrico Solito

Appendix C: Florence in the 1890s
Historical Photographs

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