Invite

Subject to distance and time restraints, Dan Andriacco would be happy to talk to your group. Prepared talks include:

• Not So Elementary: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Development of Detective Fiction
• Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Irish
• Gone to the Dogs: Canine Capers, Canonical and Otherwise
• A Study in Consistency: How the First Sherlock Holmes Story Prefigured the Rest
• My Life in Writing (originally a talk for young people)
• Rex Stout: Sherlockian Extraordinaire 
• A Most Valuable Institution: How Sherlock Holmes Used the Press
• Sherlock Holmes, For Crown and Country: The Great Detective in Public Service
• What Writers Can Learn From Sherlock Holmes  
• Finding the Time and the Inspiration to Write Fiction
• Gothic Holmes: Dark Shadows in the Canon 
• It Has All Been Done Before: Persistent Plot Tropes in the Canon

You can write to Dan at contact@danandriacco.com 

"Dr. Dan is the author of the popular Sebastian McCabe - Jeff Cody mysteries, and after listening to his presentation, we were enthralled and appreciate why he is in such demand at Sherlockian gatherings across the country." -- The Torist Times, September 2012