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  1. Holmes reads Holmes
    reflections on the real-life links between the jurist & the detective in the library, in the courtroom, and on the battlefield : featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
    Contributor: Davies, Ross E (Herausgeber); Hoeflich, Michael H (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Talbot Publishing, Clark, New Jersey

    Introductions / M.H. Hoeflich & Ross E. Davies -- Justice Holmes reads and reads and reads / M.H. Hoeflich -- The Holmeses at the Supreme Court / Ross E. Davies -- From cannons to canon : a journey from Ball's bluff to Baker Street / Robert S. Katz... more

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, Zentralbibliothek
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Introductions / M.H. Hoeflich & Ross E. Davies -- Justice Holmes reads and reads and reads / M.H. Hoeflich -- The Holmeses at the Supreme Court / Ross E. Davies -- From cannons to canon : a journey from Ball's bluff to Baker Street / Robert S. Katz -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Contributors and credits "Starting in the Victorian Age, "Holmes" became a great name. First there was the best-selling essayist and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Then, as the 19th century turned to the 20th, his son Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. rose to fame as a judge, and, almost simultaneously, Sherlock Holmes rose to fame as a detective. The careers of those three Holmeses, and their respective reputations in both literature and in law, intertwined over seven decades - from the Civil War in the 1860s to the Supreme Court during the Depression years of the 1930s - as they occasionally influenced or entertained each other, and sometimes even shared the public spotlight"--

     
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