The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession (2010) is a collection of 12 essays by American journalist David Grann

David Grann

David Grann is an American literary journalist and best-selling author. He has written about a range of subjects, from New York City's antiquated water supply system to the hunt for giant squid to the U.S...

. The essays were previously published between 2000 and 2009 in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, The New York Times Magazine

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, The New Republic

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The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

and The Atlantic and have been "updated and revised". The stories are about real-life mysteries, a "mosaic of ambition, deception, passion, and folly." Three of the stories have been optioned for filming rights, and five of the stories have been collected in other "best" anthology volumes. It is Grann's second book, after The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z (book)

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a non-fiction book by American author David Grann. It tells the story of the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for an ancient lost city. For decades, explorers...

(2009) published the previous year, and his first collected anthology of essays.

Contents

Chapter Number	Part	Chapter Title	Year Published	Source(s)	Related articles	Notes
01	Part 1	Mysterious Circumstances	2004	The New Yorker, December 13, 2004. The Best American Crime Writing 2005	Richard Lancelyn Green Richard Lancelyn Green Richard Lancelyn Green was a British scholar of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, generally considered the world's foremost scholar of these topics.-Background:... , :Category:Sherlock Holmes
02	Part 1	Trial by Fire	2009	The New Yorker, September 7, 2009.	Cameron Todd Willingham
03	Part 1	The Chameleon	2008	The New Yorker, August 11, 2008.	Frédéric Bourdin Frederic Bourdin Frédéric Bourdin is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".According to himself, his lawyer and the press reports, Bourdin was raised by his grandparents in Paris and was later put into a children's home...
04	Part 1	True Crime	2008	The New Yorker, February 11, 2008. The Best American Crime Reporting 2009	Krystian Bala Krystian Bala Krystian Bala is a Polish writer, photographer, and convicted murderer. In 2007, Bala was sentenced to jail for 25 years for planning and committing the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski, a Polish small business owner, in Wrocław in 2000. For a number of years the Wrocław police had failed to solve...	Optioned for film by Focus Films.
05	Part 1	Which Way Did He Run?	2002	The New York Times Magazine, January 13, 2002.	September 11 attacks
06	Part 2	The Squid Hunter	2004	The New Yorker, May 24, 2004.	Giant squid Giant squid The giant squid is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species... , Steve O'Shea Steve O'Shea Steve O'Shea is a marine biologist and environmentalist known for his research on giant squid. O'Shea began work with the giant squid whilst working for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand in 1996....
07	Part 2	City of Water	2003	The New Yorker, September 1, 2003.	Sandhog Sandhog Sandhog is the slang term given to urban miners, construction workers who work underground on a variety of excavation projects in New York City. Generally these projects involve tunneling, caisson excavation, road building, or some other type of underground construction or mining projects... , Water infrastructure of New York City	Optioned for film by Paramount Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still... .
08	Part 2	The Old Man and the Gun	2003	The New Yorker, January 27, 2003. The Best American Crime Writing 2004	Forrest Tucker Forrest Tucker (criminal) Forrest Tucker is an American career criminal first imprisoned at age 15 and most recently at age 79. He is best known as an escape artist, having escaped from prison 18 times successfully and 12 times unsuccessfully...	Optioned for film by Identity Films.
09	Part 2	Stealing Time	2005	The New Yorker, September 12, 2005. The Best American Sports Writing 2006 The Best American Sports Writing The Best Sports Writing is a yearly anthology of magazine articles on the subject of sports published in the United States. It was started in 1991 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin...	Rickey Henderson Rickey Henderson Rickey Henley Henderson is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who played for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his original team, the Oakland Athletics. Nicknamed The Man of Steal, he is widely regarded as the sport's greatest leadoff hitter and baserunner...
10	Part 3	The Brand	2004	The New Yorker, February 16, 2004.	Aryan Brotherhood Aryan Brotherhood The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 20,000 members in and out of prison...
11	Part 3	Crimetown, U.S.A.	2000	The New Republic, July 10, 2000. Wise Guys: Stories of Mobsters from Jersey to Vegas	James Traficant James Traficant James Anthony Traficant, Jr. is a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio . He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley...
12	Part 3	Giving the 'Devil' His Due	2001	The Atlantic, June, 2001.	Toto Constant

Editions

• Grann, David. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. March 9, 2010. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51792-8 (hardcover, first edition).

External links

• "Deception And 'The Devil And Sherlock Holmes'", NPR
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  , March 9, 2010.
• "David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker", interview in Nieman Storyboard, April 5, 2010.