May
22
8:00pm
Les Klinger: The Origins of Sherlock Holmes
By SoCal MWA
OIN US FOR AN EXCITING EVENT WITH…
Sherlock historian Leslie S. Klinger
The Origins of Sherlock Holmes, presented by Leslie S. Klinger, editor of the Edgar Award-winning New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories.
With a mini Sherlock Holmes escape room written and presented by Laura Brennan—(there will be prizes for the winning table!)
Les will explore the history of crime fiction before 1887, when the first Sherlock Holmes story appeared, and consider what likely inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write the stories.
After the presentation, there will be a Sherlock Holmes mini escape room presented by Laura Brennan with prizes for the winning table.
And one more surprise . . . be there to find out!
Leslie S. Klinger is the two-time Edgar Award-winning editor of New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He is also the editor of the (now 10-vol.) Library of Congress Crime Classics series of reissues of great American crime fiction as well as several anthologies of Victorian detective fiction. Together with Laurie R. King, Klinger has edited five anthologies of new tales inspired by the Sherlock Holmes canon. He is a long-time member of the Baker Street Irregulars, former SoCalMWA Chapter President, and currently on the boards of SoCalMWA and SinCLA.
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