Owen Dudley Edwards je uznávaným odborníkom na sira Arthura Conana Doyla, P. G. Wodehousea a Oscara Wilda. Jeho práca sa ponára do tém a štýlov, ktoré definujú diela týchto literárnych velikánov. Ako univerzitný lektor a redaktor prestížnej edície Oxford Sherlock Holmes prináša hlboký vhľad do ich literárneho odkazu. Jeho autorský prístup sa vyznačuje analytickou hĺbkou a porozumením pre literárne nuansy.
In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist.
Owen Dudley Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate.