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Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo
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Book Description Condition: Good. Overlie, George (illustrator). Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00054377758
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Overlie, George (illustrator). Minor shelfwear/edgewear on front cover, back cover, and spine; reading creases on and along spine; signed and inscribed by author on first page in ink with 1995 date. ; Match Wits With Sherlock Holmes; 103 pages; Signed by Author. Signed By Author. Seller Inventory # 409232