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Leslie S. Klinger

Leslie S. Klinger
Leslie S. Klinger is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes. He is the editor of the three-volume set The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The first two volumes, The Complete Short Stories, won the Edgar for “Best Critical/Biographical” work. He has just completed The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Klinger is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and lives in Malibu.


On Ed Lacy's Room to Swing and Early Representation of Black Sleuths in Crime Fiction

Written by a Harlem-based white author, Room to Swing features a Black detective and is an earnest effort infused with the jazzy spirit of the 1950s.

November 4, 2022  By Leslie S. Klinger
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The Birth of an Immortal Literary Character: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Leslie S. Klinger on Robert Louis Stevenson's most enduring – and unsettling – creation.

October 18, 2022  By Leslie S. Klinger
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The Birth of American Detective Fiction

The Unlikely Detectives Who Would Launch a Literary Phenomenon

October 2, 2018  By Leslie S. Klinger
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