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Christopher Pittard Author & Editor

Christopher Pittard is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes cover

The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

2 contributors - Hardback

£78.00

The Return of Sherlock Holmes cover

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback

£8.99

The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes cover

The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

2 contributors - Paperback

£21.00

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction cover

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Christopher Pittard - Paperback

£54.99

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction cover

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Christopher Pittard - Hardback

£150.00

Literary Illusions cover

Literary Illusions

Christopher Pittard - Hardback

£100.00