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Fascinating reads with all the pace and excitem Praise for "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes": "A gifted storyteller, Grann has a Sherlock Holmesian gift for unearthing facts that are hidden in plain sight, presenting a crystal-clear narrative and letting his compelling cast of characters speak for themselves.Easily worth the price of admission, a visit to Grann's rogue's gallery is likely to leave you with a sense, at once awful and awesome, of the profound desire we all have for recognition." -"Portland Oregonian" "Grann's obsession with how narratives are told is complex and compelling.But it's the basic stories themselves - bizarre and fascinating, bolstered by exhaustive research - that make the book so gripping." -"TimeOut" New York Praise for David Grann’s acclaimed "New York Times" Bestseller, "The Lost City of Z" “At once a biography, a detective story and wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing. As Holmes put it, 'Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent'. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmesshed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned and scientists stalking a sea monster. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing true stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Watson, 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outréresults, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries.