Book cover for Shadow Woman: The Real Creator of Sherlock Holmes by John Allen

Shadow Woman

The Real Creator of Sherlock Holmes

2017 Released
306 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Allen & Allen Semiotics, Inc.ISBN 9780984271665

Shadow Woman is the startling result of a thirty year investigation into the origin of Sherlock Holmes, one of the most compelling and mysterious figures in all literature. Taking advantage of research and analysis tools only recently available, Shadow Woman will leave you with little doubt that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle neither created Sherlock Holmes nor wrote the early adventures. Early suspicions of Arthur's authorship are revealed, and the earlier writings of Mark Twain and Mary Shelley give Arthur away. Doyle's penchant for fabrication and his racist attitudes preclude him as the author of the early Holmes adventures. Time, circumstance, and collusion have kept the reading public unaware of his ghostwriter. In Shadow Woman, you will meet the modest, incredibly brilliant woman who defied Victorian sensibilities and customs to actually create Sherlock Holmes.

John Allen

In Columbia, John Allen, De Ramm, and Ingrid Wood reveal the town's early character and unspoiled beauty. John Allen is an author and civic leader. De Ramm is Columbia's town historian. Ingrid Wood is president of Columbia Historical Society.

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