The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003BLGDEM |
| Format Type | : | |
| Number of Pages | : | 462 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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I really believe that some stories need to be told in longer narrative form, and others, like the dozen in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, work ideally as shorter pieces.: Much of your writing revolves around individuals with unusually strong obsessions. What’s wonderful about nonfiction is I get to meet these incredible characters--stick up men, sandhogs, prison escape artists, imposters, squid hunters, mobsters, FBI agents--and they allow me to spend time with them and document their private thoughts. And so I hope that I take the reader on the same kind of journey that I experienced--a journey that often leads to conclusions that I never imagined.: Many of the stories in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes have a "stranger-than-fiction" quality to them. Read on to find out what David thinks about the "infinitely strange" business of w
Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world and, like Into Thin Air and The Orchid Thief, pivots around the gravitational pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism. Compulsively readable, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant mosaic of ambition, madness, passion, and folly.From the Hardcover edition.. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed skiff w
Fascinating stories EJ I usually do not read collections of essays or short stories because they are rarely equivalent in quality, which I find frustrating. However, this book bucks that trend in that the vast majority of the stories are fantastic, though the last two stories were the unquestionably the weakest.Author David Grann is a writer for The New Yorker, and some of the essays in the book have been published elsewhere. However, I had not previously read any of them. Grann covers many subjects, from the mysterious death of a Sherlock Holm. "Truth far stranger than fiction!" according to Expressrune. Another outstanding read from this author. This book is a composition of stories by this author that appeared in various publications such as the NY Times magazine and others. Many of the stories brought back memories from news reports and one of the most shocking stories is of the Haitian death squad leader Toto Constant and his "free pass" from his atrocities. The face scalping they engaged in continues to shock and appall us. A great read on so many various fascinating and awful stories that really do make truth far st. Wesley Bob said A collection of great non-fiction journalism that doesn’t really fit together thematically. I spotted this book because it was written by the same author who wrote “The Lost City of Z”. I enjoyed that book immensely and thought the author had a strong and very readable writing style so I checked out this non-fiction book. David Grann started as a newspaper reporter and then moved to longer from magazine articles. This book is a collection of some of his best articles and the attempt was made to tie the different articles together thematically. That effort really fails, as the first several are very e