literary historians

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the contributions of forty-three nineteenth-century American literary critics and scholars to letters in the U.S.; each with a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Literary researcher Harold White, having been inducted in the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, embarks on a search for a missing diary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and investigates the murder of the world's leading Doylean scholar.

Presents a story that deals with the supposed discovery of a novel by Lord Byron that was hidden away by his daughter Ada about Ali, the illegitimate son of the demonic Lord Sane, who was taken from his life in Albania to be raised as a proper English gentleman.

After her fiance leaves her, scholar Sara Frost is forced to re-examine her views on love and romance and question her life's work, searching for the lost love letters of Charlotte Bronte.