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Subject(s)

• Private investigators—England—London—Fiction [Browse]
• Detective and mystery stories, English [Browse]
• French—England—London—Fiction [Browse]
• Humorous stories, English [Browse]

Series

Oxford popular fiction. [More in this series]

Summary note

• The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont (1906) brings together tales of the multifarious exploits of Robert Barr's elegant and cunning sleuth, Valmont, a brilliantly ironic parody of Sherlock Holmes.
• Exhibiting the crucial combination of realism and imagination that characterizes the finest crime writing, the stories exude playfulness and wit, blending mystery and quasi-Gothic thrills with humorous detours and romantic adventure.
• A notable figure in turn-of-the-century literary London and a friend of Conan Doyle, Barr was acutely aware of style as a form of statement and the stories are full of literary effects, commentary on the detective mystery genre, and Valmont's disparaging reflections on English values. From the hilarious satire of sensationalism in 'The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower' to the bizarre and operatic melodrama of 'The Ghost with the Club-Foot', Barr's stories delight the reader with their skill, variety, and never-abandoned sense of spirited fun.
• This edition also includes Barr's two rare pastiches of Valmont's rival, Sherlock Holmes.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds
• 2. The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower
• 3. The Clue of the Silver Spoons
• 4. Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune
• 5. The Absent-Minded Coterie
• 6. The Ghost with the Club-Foot
• 7. The Liberation of Wyoming Ed
• 8. Lady Alicia's Emeralds
• Appendix. Two Sherlock Holmes Parodies. 1. The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs. 2. The Adventure of the Second Swag.

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ISBN

0192832484

LCCN

96044449

OCLC

503268850

RCP

C - S

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