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Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he’s hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he’s confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry’s search for the “the real thing” in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort in the end.

«Literatura, pues. Y literatura mestiza. Más: gozosamente mestiza, igual que la de la novela. Porque, si no me engaño, toda buena crónica aspira a participar de una triple condición: la del poema, la del ensayo y la del relato. Más humildes o más incapaces, las mías renuncian de antemano a las dos primeras categorías; en sus mejores momentos, propenden tal vez a la última. De hecho, acaso puedan leerse, una a una, como relatos. Como relatos reales.»

In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases...

Forensic expert Wagner has crafted a volume that stands out from the plethora of recent memoirs of contemporary scientific detectives. By using the immortal and well-known Sherlock Holmes stories as her starting point, Wagner blends familiar examples from Doyle's accounts into a history of the growth of forensic science, pointing out where fiction strayed from fact.