Английская Википедия:A Three-Pipe Problem

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox book A Three-Pipe Problem is a 1975 mystery detective novel by the British writer Julian Symons.[1][2] A pastiche of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, it takes place in the present day. The title refers to a line spoken in The Red-Headed League, referring to a particularly tricky problem that will take Holmes the time it takes to smoke three pipes to solve. It was followed by a sequel The Kentish Manor Murders.

Synopsis

Overbearing and reactionary actor Sheridan Haynes has a fascination with Sherlock Holmes, and is cast to play him in a new television series. Overidentifying with the role he sets out to investigate three murders that Scotland Yard have failed to solve.

References

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Bibliography

  • Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984.
  • Caserio, Robert L. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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  1. Caserio p.217
  2. Bargainnier p.220