"The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 3"

“Slop shops," "scissorizing," "agony aunts," and "foolscap" These and other Victorian allusions appear throughout the original Sherlock Holmes tales. Everyday words and phrases to the Victorian may have modern-day readers running to reference books. These twenty-four short essays explain and explore various aspects of life mentioned in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, providing modern-day insight into the nineteenth-century world. The collection also includes the essay "Evil Women: The Villainesses of the Canon," originally published in the Baker Street Journal.