See also The Great Hiatus

and Professor Moriarty

C6659. -- A2412. Addlestone, Alan. "Some Notes About Meiringen, Reichenbach, and the Château de Lucens," VH, 3, No. 1 (January 1968), 9-11.

The author describes his pilgrimage to the Shrine at Reichenbach and visit to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Museum.

C6660. -- A2413. Andrew, Clifton R. "A Rejoinder to Professor Hill," BSJ, 5, No. 3 (July 1955), 154-156.

A rebuttal of Pope R. Hill's substructure theory as it applies to the plot of this tale.

C6661. -- A2414. Austin, Bliss, ed. Holmes and the Theory of Games. Westfield, N.J.: The Hydraulic Press, September 1953. 8 p.

Limited to 100 numbered copies.

Three extracts from advanced textbooks by Oskar Morgenstern and a retrospection by the editor on the Master's "flight" from Moriarty.

C6662. -- A2415. Ball, John. "The Practical Art of Baritsu, the Japanese Wrestling System; With Some Observations on Its Use by Mr. Sherlock Holmes," BSJ, 14, No. 1 (March 1964), 31-36.

The author, who holds a Japanese-awarded black belt, examines Holmes's knowledge of Baritsu, describes the art, identifies the Master's sensei (teacher), and determines his rank as a Baritsudoka. After examining in detail the site of the celebrated combat at the Reichenbach Falls, he provides data on the techniques which the Master utilized in overcoming the Napoleon of Crime without being dragged to his own death in the process.

C6663. -- A2416. Bengis, Nathan L. "Plot Against Holmes," SHJ, 1, No. 1 (May 1952), 15, 14.

The author relates his discovery of how Silas K. Hocking planted the idea in Doyle's mind as to how he might put an end to Holmes.

C6664. -- A2417. Berman, Ruth. "Skipping Stones at Reichenbach," West by One and by One. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. p. 61-63.

It was the Swiss youth, not Moran, who gave Holmes "that evil five minutes on the Reichenbach ledge."

C6665. -- A2418. Boswell, Rolfe. "The Haunting of the Nark," BSJ [OS], 1, No. 4 (October 1946), 462-463.

"Adapted from Fit the Eighth (The Vanishing), `The Hunting of the Snark,' by Lewis Carroll, alias Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias `Professor Moriarty.'"

"He had softly and suddenly vanished away-- / For the Prof was a Carroll, you see."

C6666. -- A2419. "By the Reichenbach Falls," The Times (August 31, 1966), 9.

----------, BSCL, No. 5 (1966), 4-5.

"`The Final Problem,' which brought Holmes and Moriarty to their fatal confrontation, was so apparently conclusive that to this day there are many who find Holmes's explanation of how he escaped unsatisfactory."

C6667. -- A2420. Clark, Benjamin S. "The Final Problem," BSJ, 16, No. 2 (June 1966), 68-69.

A blasphemous suggestion that Holmes staged the Reichenbach Incident with a nonexistent Moriarty to obtain a three-year rest cure for his addiction to dope.

C6668. -- A2421. Crawford, Bryce, and R. C. Moore. "The Final Problem -- Where?" Exploring Sherlock Holmes. Edited by E. W. McDiarmid & Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1957. p. 82-87.

An account of the authors' visit to the Reichenbach Falls, where a careful examination of the terrain and interviews with several local inhabitants reveal the exact site of the epochal struggle.

C6669. -- A2422. Davies, Bernard. "Canonical Connections," SHJ, 5, No. 2 (Spring 1961), 37-41.

"Viewed in retrospect, Holmes's scheme must stand for all time as his most amazing feat of creative reasoning, as opposed to pure analysis.... The double bluff of the Ostend train and the luggage marked `Paris' was pure genius."

C6670. -- A2423. Giasullo, Frank. "Baritsu at the Reichenbach," BSJ, 15, No. 2 (June 1965), 96.

"A more logical throw to use on that ledge in Switzerland would have been the hip throw (Ogoshi)."

C6671. -- A2424. Gibson, Theodore W. "You're Matching Me," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 1 (1956), 15-18.

A discussion of the example from the Canon used by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (DA2449) and by Edward Kasner and James Newman (DA2344) to illustrate the theory of probability.

C6672. -- A2425. Grasse, Marvin. "Who Killed Holmes?" The Atlantic Monthly, 195, No. 6 (June 1955), 88-90.

An astonishing disclosure of how Watson and Mycroft were able to rid themselves of Sherlock on that fateful day at the Falls. The later Holmes has yet to be identified.

C6673. -- A2426. Hall, W. S. "A Visit to the Reichenbach Falls," BSJ, 1, No. 4 (October 1951), 123-127.

An interesting account of the author's visit to Meiringen and the "turned-off" Falls.

C6674. -- A2427. Hardenbrook, Don and Margaret. "The Moriart," by Gaston Huret III. Tr. by Don and Margaret Hardenbrook. BSJ, 9, No. 2 (April 1959), 88-89.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 198-199.

They frappled on the huddy brink / In dortal combat, hand to hand; / Then with a brist, a subtle flink, / The Moriart unplanned."

C6675. -- A2428. Hench, Philip S. "Of Violence at Meiringen," Exploring Sherlock Holmes. Edited by E. W. McDiarmid & Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1957. p. 97-120.

A vivid account of the author's visit to the Reichenbach Falls in pursuit of the Norwegian Explorers' objective of erecting a plaque at this "fixed point in a changing world."

C6676. -- A2429. Hill, Pope R. "The Final Problem: An Exemplification of the Substructure Theory," BSJ, 5, No. 3 (July 1955), 149-153.

Doyle put clues in this adventure to show that Holmes was not dead.

C6677. -- A2430. Hughes, Richard. ["Letter"], Sports Illustrated, 18, No. 23 (June 10, 1963), 91-92.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 14, No. 1 (March 1964), 36.

A footnote to Baring-Gould's essay (DA3165) in which the Chief Banto of the Baritsu Chapter of BSI offers an explanation of Holmes's baffling reference to baritsu.

C6678. -- A2431. Hulbert, William C. "Echoes from Reichenbach," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 2 (April 1948), 183-187.

During a visit to the renowned Reichenbach gorge, the author and Aubrey Pershouse heard "two human sounds that rose miraculously above that hellish cacophony."

C6679. -- A2432. Jaffee, Irving L. "`The Final Problem,'" Elementary My Dear Watson. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Theo. Gaus' Sons, [1965]. p. 13-15.

"If ... we believe that Holmes was suffering from some deep-rooted psychotic trauma and that Moriarty, `he of mathematical celebrity,' was merely the product of Holmes' own disturbed mind, we are led inescapably to the next conclusion that the great detective was bent on nothing else than suicide in his wild flight into Switzerland. Many of the events unfolded in the narrative in question would seem to support this notion."

C6680. -- A2433. Judson, Ralph. "The Mystery of Baritsu: A Sidelight Upon Sherlock Holmes's Accomplishments," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 3 (1958), 10-16.

The Master's knowledge of Baritsu, the name given by Mr. Barton-Wright to his method of Ju-Jutsu, enabled him to overcome Moriarty during their death struggle on the path above the Reichenbach Falls.

C6681. -- A2434. Judson, Ralph. "Sidney Paget and the Reichenbach Falls Fight," BSJ, 9, No. 4 (October 1959), 243. (Two Critiques)

"If Paget's imaginary picture was right, Sherlock Holmes could not possibly have disengaged himself and avoided falling over the brink together with his maddened enemy."

C6682. -- A2435. Karlson, Kathy. "May 4, 1891," BSP, No. 48 (June 1969), 1.

"I'm the only one who'd seen that murder done. / No one else knows this in Meiringen town. / So you, silent friend, will be the only one."

C6683. -- A2436. Kellett, E. E. "Monody on the Death of Sherlock Holmes," Jetsam: Occasional Verses. E. Johnson, Cambridge University, 1897.

----------. ----------. [With a note by Vincent Starrett.] Ysleta: Edwin B. Hill, 1934. [4] p. (Sherlockiana)

----------. ----------, Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 137.

Let scoundrels all rejoice / Throughout our mourning land, / For Sherlock Holmes is gone, / Gone to a better Strand."

C6684. -- A2437. Kennedy, Bruce. "By the Falls," SOS Annual, No. 2 (January 1968), 15.

"Thus the villains face their doom, / While Watson lives three years in gloom."

C6685. -- A2438. McLauchlin, Russell. "The Case of the Fallible Falls-Finder," BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 223-227.

While on a trip to Meiringen, the author mistakes the Alpbachfall for the Reichenbach. Illustrated with a double-page reproduction of Meiringen as it appeared in 1890.

C6686. -- A2439. Michaelsson, Georg. "Vem dödade Sherlock Holmes?" ["Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?"] Svenska Dagbladet (November 25, 1956).

----------. ----------, BSCL, No. 4 (1965), 11-16.

A further argument that Watson and Mycroft were responsible for the Master's death at the Reichenbach.

C6687. -- A2440. Montgomery, James. "Meiringen Musings," Shots from the Canon. [Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1953.] p. 9-11.

An observation on the fire that destroyed the village of Meiringen soon after "that fateful fourth of May, 1891."

C6688. -- A2441. Portugal, Eustace. "The Holmes-Moriarty Duel," The Bookman [London], 86, No. 512 (May 1934), 97-99.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 4, No. 16 (Fall 1968), 310-312.

A contention that the Master died in the struggle at the Reichenbach Falls and that the Professor survived and took his place.

C6689. -- A2442. Rabe, W. T. "Reichenbach Visited `05," BSJ, 10, No. 3 (July 1960), 167-169.

Quotations, with brief comments, from the Guide Through Europe 1905.

C6690. -- A2443. Reeler, Kenneth Clark. "`Well Then, About That Chasm...,'" HO, 1, No. 5 (July 1971), 3-6; 1, No. 6 (August 1971), 5-7; 1, No. 7 (September 1971), 3-4.

"Those missing three years of Holmes' life were not spent embarking on improbable adventures ... he was engaged in a grand deception to entrap Moriarty, who hadn't died at all ... The Valley of Fear did not occur on a January 7-8 which happened to occur in April that year of 1891; but in some year following the Great Hiatus. In short, that Professor Moriarty, had Watson occasion to ask, might. also have said: `Well then, about that chasm. I had no serious difficulty in getting out of it, for the very simple reason that I never was in it....'"

C6691. -- A2444. Rouby, Jason. "A Confidential Communication," Received by Jason Rouby. BSJ, 15, No. 4 (December 1965), 224-226.

An epistle from "the quondam Professor Moriarty," explaining the mystery of the "struggle" on the brink of the Reichenbach Falls, his disappearance, his spiritual and moral rehabilitation, and his subsequent career in the U.S. under the assumed name of J. Edgar Hoover.

C6692. -- A2445. Silverstein, Albert and Myrna. "Concerning the Extraordinary Events at the Reichenbach Falls," BSJ, 20, No. 1 (March 1970), 21-29.

The Canonical account of the confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty found in Fina and Empt contains a total of sixteen major implausibilities. These implausibilities, some of them never before enumerated, are analyzed with an eye toward a reconstruction that will, at last, give Sherlockians the truth about all the events leading up to, during, and following that historical meeting. The reconstruction consists of two major premises: Holmes worked out and executed an ingenious trap for Moriarty, using himself as bait; and Holmes's motive for disappearing subsequent to the confrontation was decided upon long before the meeting with Moriarty, was indeed to make the world not know what had become of him, and was still the most reasonable strategy despite Moran's knowledge that Holmes had not perished.

C6693. -- A2446. Smith, Edgar W. "The Quasi-Final Problem," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 3 (July 1947), 307-310.

----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 13 (Summer 1967), 249-251.

----------. "The Cliff-Hanger," A Baker Street Quartette. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, [1950]. p. 37-44.

A tale in verse.

C6694. -- A2447. Thorington, J. Monroe. ["Letter to Alex Carson Simpson"], Sherlock Holmes's Wanderjahre. Pt. 2, p. 23-27. (Simpson's Sherlockian Studies, Vol. 2)

Dr. Thorington describes a fragment of an alpenstock he discovered below the Reichenbach with the initials "S.H." and the figures `91 at the top of the staff!

C6695. -- A2448. Utechin, Nicholas. "A Day of Danger," SOS, 3, No. 1 (January 1969), 10-14.

Holmes exaggerated his story to Watson about the day he narrowly escaped death--first by the hand of Moriarty, then by a two-horse van, and finally by a falling brick.

C6696. -- A2449. Von Neumann, John, and Oskar Morgenstern. "Some Elementary Games," Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton University Press, 1944. Chap. 4, Sec. 18.4.4, p. 176-178.

----------. ----------, ----------. [3rd ed.] New York: John Wiley & Sons, [1964]. p. 176-178. (Science Editions)

Holmes's flight from Moriarty is used as an example of the game of Matching Pennies.

C6697. -- B5938. Bliss, John. "To the Falls and Back in Three Years and Five Verses," MSB, 2, No. 8 (December 1978), 4.

"And so with the fun done / Reappeared then in London / The greatest of consulting detectives."

C6698. -- B1005. Jaffee, Irving L. "The Final Problem" Famous Detective Stories, 15, No. 5 (February 1956), 73-75.

First appearance of DA2432.

C6699. -- B1006. John, Kevin. "Reichenbach: A Planned Ending?" COTS Annual, No. 1 (1977), 3-5.

A study in murder (Moriarty's) and an attempted suicide (Holmes's).

C6700. -- B1007. [Knox, E. V.] "Dr. J. H. Watson," by Evoe. Punch Almanack, 232 (November 5, 1956), 13. (Leaves from Notable Old Diaries)

"Watson" discovers that it is easier to walk backwards than to reverse one's boots in deceiving a tracker of footprints. The reference is to a statement made by Holmes in his account of the Reichenbach incident.

C6701. -- B1008. Kupferberg, Herbert. "Where Sherlock Holmes Disappeared," Parade: The Sunday Newspaper Magazine (September 1, 1974), 16. illus.

An account of the author's visit to Meiringen and the Reichenbach Falls.

C6702. -- B1009. Lo Bello, Nino. "Sherlock Holmes' Shrine Marks Fictional Last Gasp," The Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet (May 2, 1975), 1, 3.

----------. "Scene of His `Death' Lures Sherlock's Fans," The Miami Herald (May 25, 1975).

----------. ----------, CPBook, 1, No. 2 (February 1978), 49.

----------. "Where Sherlock Holmes Met His `Death,'" Chicago Tribune (June 29, 1975), IV, 4.

----------. Sherlock Holmes `Expired' in Switzerland," Sunday Oregonian (September 14, 1975).

----------. ----------, DCC, 12, No. 3 (March 1976), 3.

----------. "Elementary, My Dear Geologist," Jet Tales: The Lufthansa Magazine, Nr. 3 (1977), 36-37.

The author describes his visit to Meiringen and the Reichenbach Falls.

C6703. -- B1010. McDonald, John. "A Theory of Games," Strategy in Poker, Business and War. Illustrated by Robert Osborn. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., [1950]. p. 57-59.

"Matching pennies is the model for a detective story game played by Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem, once used by Morgenstern as a model of conflicts in life, and played by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the theory of games."

C6704. -- B1011. Martin, E. S. "This Busy World," Harper's Weekly, 37 (December 16, 1893), 1191.

"Dr. Doyle, who is directly and almost criminally responsible for our friend's tragic death, owes it to us to try at least to induce the other Holmes to abandon the club where he stagnates, to move into the quarters in Baker Street, and to uphold at the old stand the reputation of his family."

C6705. -- B1012. Mason, Herbert J. "Where Sherlock Holmes Died," The Strand Magazine, 22 (December 1901), 796. (Curiosities)

A letter about the Reichenbach Falls, illustrated with a photograph.

C6706. -- B1013. Murphy, Susan. "Poem," HO, 2, No. 2 (April 1972), 9.

"At the falls Moriarty had failed; / O, at the falls Moriarty had failed."

C6707. -- B1014. Pollak, Marsha, and Mary Kathleen Brennan. "The Great Debate," CN (NS), 1, No. 2 (June 1978), 3-6; 1, No. 3 (September 1978), 7-8; 1, No. 4 (December 1978), 13; 2, No. 1 (March 1979), 18-19.

Each contender presents her own argument as to whether Holmes and Watson were in Brussels or Strasburg when they received the telegram from the London police.

C6708. -- B1015. Rouby, Jason. "A Confidential Communication," Canon Fodder. Charles 0. Gray, editor. Little Rock: The Arkansas Valley Investors, Ltd., 1976. p. 108-111.

Reprinted from BSJ, December 1965 (DA2444).

C6709. -- B1016. Russell, J. A. "Postscript to The Final Problem: Being the Last Memoir of the Late John H. Watson, M.D.," BSJ, 22, No. 3 (September 1972), 174-182.

According to the narrator, Holmes did plunge into the Reichenbach on May 4, 1891, traversing the barrier separating our space/time continuum from another much like it. There he met the other Watson and another evil-natured Holmes. After conversing with the other sceptical Dr. Watson, Holmes confronted his double (murderer of the other good-natured Moriarty) and, locked in mortal combat, dropped once more into a falls, undoubtedly returning to his own world.

C6710. -- B1017. Silk, Leonard. "The Game Theorist," The New York Times (February 13, 1977), III, 1, 9.

An article about the life and work of mathematician Oskar Morgenstern and his contributions to the field of games theory. Special focus on the classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (DA2449) includes a discussion of the Holmes-vs.-Moriarty example of minimax strategy explicated in that work. Accompanying the explanation is a map of Holmes's route from Waterloo Station to Dover and two Paget drawings.

C6711. -- B1018. Smedegaard, Paul B. "The Drama of Reichenbach -- An Holmesian Epic," BSJ, 27, No. 4 (December 1977), 226-229.

The confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty was inevitable when the detective destroyed the Moriarty organization. The motivations of the two intellectual equals are described, and the role of Moran at Reichenbach and, later, in London is clarified.

C6712. -- B1019. Trudeau, Noah André. "The Second Most Dangerous Man in London -- Dangerous to Whom?" BSJ, 22, No. 2 (June 1972), 104-106, 119.

In a new perspective on the awful affair at Reichenbach Falls, this article focuses on Col. Sebastian Moran as the center of intrigue behind the celebrated encounter. The author contends that the various inconsistencies that have plagued Sherlockians about the events of the encounter can be understood only if we accept Moran as having had designs on Moriarty's criminal network. Moran accompanied his leader not to aid him, as is generally accepted, but rather to ensure the death of both principals involved and his own ascension to power.

C6713. -- B1020. Waggoner, Larry. "The Unknown Moriarty," BSJ, 28, No. 3 (September 1978), 165-167.

This article explains Moriarty's survival at the Reichenbach Falls by identifying Holmes's assailant there as an unknown member of the Moriarty clan and not the professor. Moriarty slipped past Holmes at the Falls and also at a later near-confrontation in Empt.

C6714. Abiko, Enchi. "On `The Final Problem' -- Did Watson Write the Truth?" SNSHC, 3, No. 1 (May 4, 1992), 31-45.

Text in Japanese.

"It is 100 years since the case of `The Final Problem' occurred, and the case was told by John H. Watson as one of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories. But there are so many questions that many so-called `Sherlockians' doubt the story was true. In this document the author has tried to read the story as a report on the struggle between the police and the criminal syndicate, and to certify that Watson wrote the truth about the campaign between ... Holmes and Moriarty."

C6715. Austin, Bliss. Holmes and the Theory of Games. [New York: Magico Magazine, 1986.] 10 p.

Cover illustration by J. Hudd.

First published by the Hydraulic Press, September 1953 (DA2414).

C6716. Austin, Bliss. "A Sherlockian Play -- On Words (That Might Be Verse)," ND (August 1981), 10.

"Moriarty hurtled through the void / And landed on his asteroid, ... / Holmes, meanwhile, maintained his cool / By landing in a placid pool, / Though there his prospects still were dim / Because he's never learned to swim."

C6717. Baedeker, Karl. Switzerland Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for Travellers. 27th rev. ed. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1928. liv, 618 p. illus.

Cover title: Baedeker's Switzerland.

Includes references to Holmes, Meiringen, and the Reichenbach Falls (p. 224-226, 235). "It will be remembered that Sherlock Holmes disappeared at the Reichenbach Falls."

C6718. Berman, Ruth. "Reichenbach Witness," BSJ, 37, No. 3 (September 1987), 146-147.

Summarizes and explains away the objections to Watson's account of how Holmes survived Reichenbach.

C6719. Billing, Ian. "`I Have Some Knowledge, However ...,'" BSN, 3, No. 2 (Trinity Term 1986), 5.

Speculation, with illustrations, on the exact moves that Holmes performed, from modern karate and judo methods.

C6720. Bruhns, Oliver. "Die Reichenbachfälle: 99 Jahre danach," SNOB, Nr. 4 (February 1990), 10-13.

C6721. Carter, Sally. "On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes," 221b, No. 3 (April 1990), 46-48.

An account of Sally and Penny's visit to the Reichenbach Falls.

C6722. Conger, Wally. "A One-Minute `Final Problem,'" AG, 2, No. 3 (May 1986), 2.

A verse version of Fina that can be read aloud in one minute.

"April night / Holmes a fright / Watson's home / All alone / Shutters shut / Knuckles cut, / Holmes tells Watson, his confessor, / Of Moriarty, the professor / Whose life Holmes has filled with woe, / So to the Continent they must go ..."

C6723. Cornell, Nelson. "No, Virginia, There Is No Moriarty," PP (NS), No. 9 (March 1991), 20-32.

"So there it is, Virginia, an inside look at literary history .... just suppose that Watson had been having us on all these years and Moriarty was real but Holmes was not .... Instead of The Final Problem, Holmes might have titled his story, The Adventure of the Red Herrings, because that's really what the yarn was all about."

C6724. Coules, Bert. "`There Was Something Strange in All This,'" MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 31-37.

Illustration by Linda King.

"A ramble round some final problems" by the adapter of Fina for BBC Radio 4.

C6725. Crosson, Frederick J. "Geopolitics and Reichenbach Falls," BSJ, 31, No. 1 (March 1981), 6-9.

A reinterpretation of Fina which argues that the story of Moriarty was contrived by Holmes in order to cover his absence from England while on a secret diplomatic mission for the British government.

Review: South Bend Tribune (January 6, 1981), 21 (Deanna Francis), and reprinted in SFTC, 4, No. 1 (April 1981), 3, and CPBook, 4, No. 4 (December 1981), 403.

C6726. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `The Final Problem,'" NS, No. 25 (December 17, 1985), 3-7, 13.

A brief summary of the author's research on Fina. He reveals for the first time "the real reason why the Master had procrastinated for almost two weeks before closing his trap, once and for all, on Moriarty at Reichenbach."

C6727. Dougherty, Dick. "Case of the Missing Falls," Original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Datsun Discovery [Redondo Beach, Calif.], 3, No. 3 (Fall 1979), 10-13.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 1 (March 1980), 220-223.

"An astute observer of Sherlock Holmes visits the scene of the sleuth's untimely death and solves a riddle of his own." (Subtitle)

C6728. Foss, T.F. "The Man They Called 'Ho,' Plus the Butcher Also," BSJ, 35, No. 4 (December 1985), 206-210.

Moriarty not only was a figment of the fertile brains of the Holmes brothers (a theory advanced by Professor Crosson) but Watson also was in league with them in their attempt to dupe us by inventing a master villain against whom the Great Detective could pit his wits.

C6729. The Franco-Midland Hardware Company. Annual Report 1991: The Final Problem Contract. Edited by Philip Weller. Fareham, Hampshire: Sherlock Publications, February 1991. 53 p. illus.

Contents: 1. The Managing Director's Report, by Philip Weller. -- 2. The Not-So-Final Problem, by Christopher Roden. -- 3. The Final Plot, by Mark Davys. -- 4. Actors in the Drama, by Matthew Booth. -- 5. Finally, Still Problems, by Donald Redmond. -- 6. A Short Bibliography of Fina, by David Kirby. -- 7. Brussels in a Day? by Patrick Dennison. -- 8. And So Over to Dieppe, by Philip Weller. -- 9. Travelling Through Switzerland, by Michael Meers. -- 10. Chronic Travels by Jane Sayle. -- 11. The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, by Jack Simmons. -- 12. The Final (15) Problem(s), by Carl Hoskisson. -- 13. A Duel of Intellectual Antagonists, by Chris Wills-Wood. -- 14. The Disappearance of Mrs. Watson, by Hanya Gordon. -- 15. Just Who Was Inspector Patterson? by Martin Milburn. -- 16. The Return of Porlock, by Alan Saunders. -- 17. The Final (15) Answer(s), by Carl Hoskisson. -- 18. The Police Involvement in Fina, by Carl Whitlam. -- 19. My Note Was Absolutely Genuine, by Anne Jordan. -- 20. A Question of Disguise, by Joseph Marino. -- 21. The Annual Report Prize Quiz, by Carol Whitlam. -- 22. The Terminal Problem -- Pourquoi Dieppe? by Philip Weller.

C6730. The Franco-Midland Hardware Company. Interim Report 1991: The Final Problem Contract Reviewed. Edited by Philip Weller. Foreham, Hampshire: Sherlock Publications, October 1991. 42 p. illus.

Contents: The Managing Director's Report by Philip Weller. -- 2. The Final Problem, by Peter Coleman. -- 3. A Final Problem? by Geoff Budd. -- 4. The Final Mistake, by Morris Riarty. -- 5. 1991--London to Brussels in a Day? by Antony Richards. -- 6. The Final Journey, by Philip Weller. -- 7. The Same, Only Different, by Bert Coules. -- 8. The Missing Inventor, by Chris Wills-Wood. -- 9. The Final Companion, by Philip Weller. -- 10. 884B, by Jane Sayle. -- 11. A Relative Question, by Philip Weller. -- 12. It Was a "Good" Book, by Dave Kirby. -- 13. Penang Punnies Solutions, by Michael McClure. -- 14. The "Annual Report" Quiz Answers, by Carol Whitlam.

C6731. Frick, Willis G. "A Man's Head Against the Darkening Sky," SHJ, 20, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 46-48.

The rock throwing assailant at Reichenbach was not Moran but another man who has yet to be identified. "Moran, the greatest shot in the empire, would not use rocks. If he had been accompanying Moriarty as a back up and waiting in a position to watch the events on the ledge at Reichenbach, he would have been waiting with his rifle and Holmes would never have escaped."

C6732. Hammer, David L. "A Psychological Study of Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the Year 1891," CH, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1988), 5-11

Holmes was in a classic persecutory paranoid state during April and May of 1891.

C6733. Heinrich, Helen E. "Reise nach Reichenbach," BSJ, 37, No. 3 (September 1987), 140-145.

An imaginative account of the author's visit to Meiringen and the falls.

C6734. Higham, Charles. "The Original Moriarty," The Times (November 20, 1976), 7. illus.

The model for "the Napoleon of crime" was the famous 19th-century criminal Adam Worth.

Excerpt from The Adventures of Conan Doyle, p. 111-116 (DB1995).

C6735. Hiraga, Saburoh. "The Origin of Falls Worship," SNSHC, 2, No. 1 (May 4, 1991), 26-43.

Text in Japanese.

Contents: Introduction. -- 1. The Questions About "The Final Problem". -- 2. The Passwords of Dr. Watson. -- 3. The Suggestions and Denials on Holmes's Death. -- 4. The Relationship to "The Adventure of the Empty House". -- 5. Where Has the Young Swiss Man Gone? -- 6. The Fight at the Upper Falls. -- 7. Conclusion.

C6736. Hirayama, Yuichi. "The Master and `Baritsu,'" SIB, 3 (August 1993), 61-63.

"The Master was not always a master. He might have been a beginner."

C6737. Hollenbeck, Robert. "The Reichenbach Falls," DCC, 23, No. 3 (August 1987), 3-4.

An account of the author's visit to Meiringen.

C6738. Huddleston, Jeffrey R. "The Ballad of Sherlock Holmes" (based on Sir Patrick Spens), BSR, 5, Nos. 11-12 (August-September 1981), 6.

----------. ----------, WW, 4,,No. 3 (January 1982), 17-19. illus.

"Down in the pit of Reichenbach / The cliffs are sharp and steep; / And there lies good Sherlock Holmes / With the Professor at his feet."

C6739. Iijima, Akira. "The Study of Baritsu," SNSHC, 1, No. 2 (December 15, 1990), 132-142.

Text in Japanese.

"When Sherlock Holmes had the last showdown with Prof. James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, it is a well-known fact that he pushed Moriarty down into the basin of the waterfall by using Baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling. There are various theories about what system of wrestling Baritsu is, who taught Baritsu to Holmes, and when was he taught. In this report we present a new theory: Baritsu is our Japanese national sport, and it was Kingo Tatsuno in his younger days who taught Sumo to Holmes while studying in England."

C6740. Kean, Michael H. "A Swiss Sherlockian Sojourn," A Touch of the Class. Edited by Michael H. Kean. Wilmette, Ill.: The Pondicherry Press, 1981. p. 43-54.

Dr. Kean's excellent and valuable account of his Pilgrimage to Switzerland in September 1975 focuses on the Reichenbach Falls and six problems raised by Sherlockian scholars which he reviews in light of his own visit.

C6741. Keefauver, Brad. "The Reichenbach Fall," P&D, No. 166 (July 1992), 4-5. (The Dissecting Room)

The author relates his bungee-cord experiment which he performed in an effort to find out what Moriarty really thought while falling to his death. (The lengths that some Sherlockians will go to in discovering new facts!)

C6742. Kellogg, Richard L. "Holmes's Readiness for Death in the Spring of 1891," CH, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1989), 40-41.

In this story Holmes prepares for his final conflict with Moriarty. His behavior and comments are analyzed in reference to his emotions concerning the possibility of his own death. It is concluded that Holmes faced death with acceptance and a sense of inner security.

C6743. Kennedy, Bruce. "Problems with `The Final Problem,'" PP, 4, No. 1 (January 1982), 29-33.

A summary of Holmes's supposed "day of horror" at the hands of Moriarty in London and continuing through Fina and Empt which are confusing and quite uncharacteristic of Holmes. The two stories can only be an elaborate cover-up for the fact that Holmes was taking a much needed vacation after completing a case of supreme importance to the French Government.

Review: PP, 4, No. 3 (September 1982), 30-31 (Walter Pond).

C6744. Kennedy, Bruce. "A Tribute, Though Not Necessarily Glowing, to the Napoleon of Crime," PP, 3, No. 2 (1980), 15-17.

Because Holmes seemed unaware that Lucerne is in Switzerland, not Italy (3Gab), it is inconceivable that he was ever in Switzerland. Thus the events in Fina never took place. The story by Watson was written at the request of Col. James Moriarty in an effort to help immortalize his brother, who died while saving Holmes's life.

C6745. Kenyon, Christie, and James Ravin. "The Great Fall: Holmes's Final Problem at Reichenbach," BSJ, 41, No. 4 (December 1991), 199-202. illus.

The rich literary and pictorial tradition of the Alps was a compelling factor in the choice of setting for Fina. The Swiss Alps had been a requisite stop along the Grand Tour for over a century. The Alps had particularly appealed to romantic authors like Wordsworth and Goethe and artists like Turner and Cozens.

C6746. Koppett, Leonard. "Noting a Momentous 100th Anniversary," Times Tribune [Palo Alto] (April 24, 1991).

Observes the centennial of Holmes's disappearance.

C6747. Kostya, Mary Jo. "The Adventure of the Failed Falls," BCA (1986), 4-6.

An account of the "perilous pilgrimage to this shrine of shrines" by Lilian Williams and her daughter Mary Jo Kostya, who discovered that the lift was inoperative because of a drought that had dried up the Falls. In a note the editor speculates that a "dry falls" would explain how Holmes could hear Moriarty's scream when he fell into the abyss as it would not have been muffled by the roar of raging water.

C6748. Levin, Alfred A. "Reichenbach Revisited," PITP, No. 3 (Winter 1988), 27-35.

A detailed guide to the place of the great struggle, based on three visits by the author and his wife.

C6749. Levin, Alfred A. "Reichenbach Revisited," VA, 1, No. 1 (June 1991), 29-50. illus.

The author, who has now visited Reichenbach five times, discusses questions and theories on the Holmes/Moriarty death struggle.

C6750. Levin, Alfred A. "Sherlock Holmes Memorials in Meiringen," RJ, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 13-15. illus.

Comments on three plaques, a star, the museum and statue commemorating Holmes's 1891 visit to Meiringen and the Falls.

C6751. Lo Bello, Nino. "About the Man Who Never Lived," The Journal-News (November 28, 1982), Fl. illus.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 5, No. 4 (December 1982), 513-514.

Another article about Meiringen and the Reichenbach Falls.

C6752. Lo Bello, Nino. "El muerto de Meiringen," Jet Tales: La revista de la Lufthansa [Edición española/portuguesa], Nr. 3 (1977), 36, 38. illus. (Caleidoscopio)

See also DB1009.

C6753. Luman, Richard. "We Shall Not Soon Again See the Stars of Home: Meiringen 1891 & 1984," PITP, No. 3 (Winter 1988), 19-25.

A useful guide for the Sherlockian visitor, based on the author's journey.

C6754. Medawar, Tony. "The Final Solution, or `What one man can invent, another can discover,'" SHJ, 20, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 118-121.

"Sherlock Holmes -- `the best and wisest man that I have ever known' -- was murdered at the Reichenbach Falls by the multiple wife-murderer John H. Watson, M.D. That is all that remains and, however improbable, it must be the truth."

C6755. Moore, Leslee. "The Palmer-Holmes Connection," Q£$, 10, No. 4 (November 1989), 65-72.

John Palmer, the railway security guard in "The Man with the Watches," was a secret and trusted aide to Sherlock Holmes, and assisted the detective in Fina. During a meeting with Holmes, Watson, and Doyle in Watson's consulting rooms, Palmer provided the Literary Agent with information about the unsolved murder on his train in March 1892, which Doyle used as a plot for his story.

C6756. Mortimore, Roger. "Lying Detective," BSN, 1, No. 2 (1984), 2-3.

"Through some mistake, Holmes killed the wrong man and Moriarty escaped, with the knowledge that he could now bring his only capable adversary to the gallows; consequently Holmes went into hiding, and the Professor meanwhile, for reasons of his own, adopted a new identity -- Colonel Sebastian Moran."

C6757. Mulligan, Hugh A. "A Sinister and Terrible Place: Sherlock Holmes Faithful Flock to Reichenbach Falls," Albuquerque Journal (April 19, 1987), F6. illus.

----------. "View to a Kill: Sherlock Holmes Fans Flock to Scene of Cruelest Crime of All," The Arizona Republic (May 10, 1987), T2. illus.

----------. ----------, LCH (May-June 1987), 2-3.

With photographs of Hans Thoeni, the innkeeper of the Sherlock Holmes Hotel, and visitors holding their children at the Reichenbach Falls.

C6758. Nuhn, Dayna. "A Sherlockian Falls Among Swiss Delights," CH, 8, No. 1 (Autumn 1984), 18-19.

An account of a Bootmaker's visit to Meiringen.

C6759. Olding, Alan C. "Pilgrimage to Reichenbach," NFTD, 6, No. 3 (September 1985), 4.

An account of Alan and Olive's visit to Meiringen and the Reichenbach Falls.

C6760. Palmer, Karen and Bill. "Of the Legendary Utilization of Baritsu by Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls," VA, 1, No. 1 (June 1991), 53-59.

Explains that baritsu was actually jui jitsu (an error by Watson, a copy editor, or Doyle), and includes seven illustrations by Linda Crane.

C6761. Palmer, Thomas J. "Holmes and Moriarty: A Hypothesis," Tails of the Giant Rats: Sherlockian Musings, by The Giant Rats of Massillon. Edited by Hugh T. Harrington and Roy K. Preece, Jr. Massillon, Ohio: The Village Bookshelf, 1990. p. 23-25.

"It is unthinkable that Holmes would have faced Professor Moriarty in this deadly game without first having made every effort to assure himself a winning hand. He was too clear-sighted, though, not to have realized that his plan, superbly conceived as it was, could still be doomed by the unknowns in the equation. And so his final note, written under the burden of these grim and looming possibilities, was a sincere and heartfelt valedictory to his dear friend."

C6762. Preece, Roy K., Jr. "Falleroffy," CH, 13, No. 2 (Winter 1989), 29.

A poem in seven stanzas on the death of Moriarty and Holmes: "'Twas evening and cold fog did roll / Down London streets so dark and glum: / The gaslights cast a sickly glow, / And the city seemed struck dumb."

C6763. Radford, John. "The Strange Flight of Sherlock Holmes: Did the Great Detective Suffer from a Rare Mental Disorder?" MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 21 -26.

"The final crisis at Reichenbach precipitated Holmes' flight from the scene and his amnesia: or, as we now surmise, a fugue state. What actually happened in the next three years remains a mystery. Possibly Holmes did indeed adopt the personality of Sigerson in his wanderings, wherever they were."

C6764. "Re: The Final Problem, 1891," SHR, 3, No. 2 (1991), 68-69. illus.

A commentary on Holmes's farewell note, with a reproduction of the note and the Paget illustration of Watson at Reichenbach with "the small square of paper."

C6765. Redfearn, Auberon. "A Game at Which Two Can Play: A Reichenbach Rumination," MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 27-30.

Moriarty survived his fall when his voluminous black cloak acted as a parachute, slowing his descent to the bottom of the abyss. After Holmes's retreat, he was rescued by his henchman, Moran.

C6766. Risley, Randall. "As Long as There Are Sherlockians, the Problems Will Never Be Final," BCA (1990), 28-30.

Offers evidence that Fina was a hoax.

C6767. [Rosenblatt, Albert M.] "Sherlock Lives," by "Sebastian Moran." Poughkeepsie Journal (January 6, 1986).

A letter to the editor disputing the account of Holmes's alleged death at Reichenbach Falls.

C6768. "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Alpine Publicity Stunt," New York Times International (May 5, 1991).

----------, BSS, 3, No. 3 (1991), 6.

Holmes fans celebrate the centennial of the Reichenbach death struggle.

C6769. Silver, Joel. Sherlock Holmes: 1887-1987. The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1987. 1 folded sheet.

Cover illustration by Sidney Paget.

"In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, one thousand copies of this keepsake have been printed for The Friends of the Lilly Library."

Commentary and reproduction of the first paragraph of Holmes's letter to Watson at the Reichenbach Falls on that fateful day of May 4, 1891.

C6770. Speck, Gordon R. "The Curious Incident of the Press in Springtime," CHJ, 9, No. 2 (February 1987), 2-3.

Holmes mentions several times in the Canon the value of the Press if one knows "how to use it"; in Fina he manages the news.

C6771. Suter, Peter. "Sherlock Holmes and the Reichenbach Falls: The Fatal Plunge That Did Not Take Place," Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Switzerland, No. 5 (1968), 6-12. illus.

The article also appears in German and French.

See also DA2237.

C6772. Thomalen, Robert E. "What Price Glory?" PP, 1, No. 6 (1979), 12-15.

"In the biggest and most important case of his career, the greatest detective that the world has ever known allowed his vanity to dictate his actions, which led him into committing blunders of which even the rankest of amateurs would never be guilty."

C6773. Torrese, Dante M. "Some Musings on 'The Final Problem,'" PP (NS), No. 16 (December 1992), 7-9.

There are some questions arising in the narrative that Sherlockians would dearly love to ask Dr. Watson in person.

C6774. Turner, J.M.W. "The Upper Fall of the Reichenbach: Rainbow," Turner and the Sublime, [by] Andrew Wilton. [London]: Published by British Museum Publications for The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Yale Center for British Art, The Trustees of the British Museum, [1980]. Cover, p. 59, 122.

Published in hardcover and paperback editions.

A magnificent watercolor of the cascade seen from the side (1810?). "The most famous literary association of this spot is with Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who plunged over the fall with Moriarty to his death. Even though that `event' occurred many decades later, it underlines the suggestive force of the subject as one lending itself naturally to drama -- or melodrama."

C6775. Utechin, Nicholas. "The Importance of `The Final Problem,'" SHJ, 20, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 41.

An editorial on "a story [that] has probably given rise to more discussion among Holmesians than any other in the Canon."

C6776. Utechin, Nicholas. "The Supreme Struggle," SHJ, 15, No. 3 (Winter 1981), 72-76.

An interesting but distorted account of the events leading up to and including the "supreme struggle" which, according to Utechin, never occurred. Holmes waylaid Moriarty and then, at the critical moment, simply pushed him into the gorge. (Given everything we know about our hero, it is highly unlikely that he would have behaved in such a cowardly manner.)

C6777. Von Neumann, John, and Oskar Morgenstern. "Some Elementary Games," Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. [2nd ed.] Princeton University Press, 1953. p. 176-177.

Reprinted for the annual dinner of The Baker Street Irregulars, January 8, 1993, by Irving Kamil.

First published in 1944 (DA2449).

C6778. Weller, Philip. "And So Over to Dieppe," FMHC Annual Report (1991), 18-20.

An investigation of the ferry crossing from Newhaven to Dieppe.

C6779. Weller, Philip. "The Final Companion," FMHC Interim Report (1990), 26-28.

An inquiry into the reasons why Holmes took Watson to Switzerland.

C6780. Weller, Philip. "The `Final' Holmesian Railway Journey," Disjecta Memoranda II (1992), 6-9.

A consideration of the possible rail routes from London to Newhaven.

C6781. Weller, Philip. "The Final Journey," FMHC Interim Report (1991), 12-17.

An account of a centennial reconstruction of the journey from London to the Reichenbach Falls.

C6782. Weller, Philip. "The Terminal Problem -- Pourquoi Dieppe?" FMHC Annual Report (1991), 50-53.

An investigation of the reasons why Holmes chose Dieppe as his French port of entry in Fina.

C6783. Wyler, Stefan. "Über den touristischen Wert eines literarischen Sturzes," Der Bund [Kanton, Bern] (July 27, 1993), 23. illus.

A general article on Holmes and Doyle and their relation to Meiringen. Part of a series on literary sites in the Cantone of Berne.

C6784. -- A2450. Brend, Gavin. "The Five Orange Pips," SHJ, 2, No. 3 (Summer 1955), 2.

"It takes me some time to get to grips / With this sinister business of orange pips."

C6785. -- A2451. Clark, Benjamin. "The Horsham Fiasco," BSJ, 1, No. 1 (January 1951), 4-8.

An inquiry into some of the extraordinary features of this tale.

C6786. -- A2452. Clarke, Richard W. "The Story I Like Best," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 2 (April 1948), 188-190.

----------. "On `The Five Orange Pips.'" The Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 3-6.

The author believes this adventure is one of the best and that the first scion society is well named.

C6787. -- A2453. Morley, Felix. "How the Child Got into the Chimney," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 3 (1958), 7-9.

Watson metamorphosed the chimney contents from heavy ordnance, as used by Clark Russell in A Sea Queen, into a sobbing child.

C6788. -- A2454. Russell, W. Clark. "Three in Charge," The Strand Magazine, 2 (October 1891), 372-382.

----------. ----------, BSJ [OS], 3, No. 3 (July 1948), 341-357. (Incunabulum)

Edgar Smith tentatively identified this fine sea story as the one Watson was reading while Holmes sat cross-indexing his records of crime.

C6789. -- A2455. Wellman, Manly Wade Hampton. "A Ku Klux Report," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 4 (October 1947), 425-426.

Part B of an essay entitled "Two Southern Exposures of Sherlock Holmes."

C6790. -- A2456. Wellman, Manly Wade Hampton. "Pip-Pip Colonel Openshaw!" BSJ [OS], 3, No. 1 (January 1948), 21-23.

A tale in verse.

C6791. -- B1021. Christensen, Peter. "The Ineffectual Superman of The Five Orange Pips," BSJ, 27, No. 3 (September 1977), 157-161.

This tale is a pessimistic treatment of Doyle's recurring fear that we live in an arbitrary universe governed by a chance which is beyond good and evil. Holmes is seen as a superman, but every effort ends in utter failure, and the storm that symbolizes the elemental forces that war on man's civilization destroys both John Openshaw and those who victimize him.

C6792. -- B1022. Lockwood, John. "A Study in White," SHJ, 11, No. 3 (Winter 1973), 91-93.

Contents: Historical Background of the Klan. -- Origin of the Klan. -- The Klan's Countermeasures. -- Methods Used by the Klan. -- The KKK and Holmes.

Review: SHJ, 13, No. 1 (Winter 1976), 31-32 (John Havers).

C6793. -- B1023. Moore, David. "The Errant Holmes," HP, 1, No. 5 (July 1977), 7-12.

"Due to his extreme workload in 1887, Mr. Holmes had been moody, depressed, and rather stale. Further, the unfortunate Mr. Openshaw made his visit to 221b at a very untimely point: the weather was bad, Holmes was definitely not up to snuff, and the Yard was acting out its part as the inept official police force. The shock of Openshaw's death brought Holmes back to his more normal, capable self, and a revived campaign against evil-doers in Great Britain was the result."

C6794. -- B1024. Thomas, Charles J. "The Mysterious Coventry Factory," BSJ, 28, No. 2 (June 1978), 92-95.

Upon examination, this case is full of unanswered questions. Why did Joseph Openshaw expand his factory? What was the Openshaw unbreakable? How did Elias finance his plantation in Florida? What were the papers, and why were they so important? How did Elias persuade (sic) Joseph to let young John Openshaw live with him? How was the KKK involved? The common answer: smuggling!

Review: BSJ, 28, No. 4 (December 1978), 227 (T. F. Foss).

C6795. Aton, Elizabeth Henckler. "Five Orange Pips -- A Family Affair?" WW, 13, No. 2 (September 1990), 29-33.

Earlier criticism of Five focuses on two themes: the first that the protagonists's uncle,as a member of the KKK, brings death to his family; and the second that Moriarty, as a distant relative in the Openshaw family, directs the murders for personal gain. This paper postulates that Elias Openshaw, having served under General Braxton Bragg in the American Civil War, incurs the wrath of the KKK by remaining loyal to Bragg after other Confederate generals, including General Nathan Bedford Forrest (who went on to found the KKK) call for Bragg's ouster after the battle of Chickamauga. Braxton Bragg is an ancestor of Michael Bragg, the "Blue Whale" of the scion Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn.

C6796. Biblewski, Thomas. "Klu Klux Klan," BSD, 3, No. 1 (January 1993), 3-4.

A brief history of this secret society that was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a fraternity of six men in early 1866.

C6797. Chaney, Warren H. "Sherlock Holmes in Texas," PL, 1, No. 1 (November 3, 1980), 5-7.

The article details Holmes's personal investigation into the case of Five which discovers that the wreck of the Lone Star produced fifteen survivors from the KKK. The author's study conclusively demonstrates Holmes's entry into the U.S. via the port of Galveston on November 3, 1893. Records further indicate the destruction of major KKK factions in Georgia and Florida during 1894. Why? As Holmes stated, "That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my hand upon this gang."

C6798. Jones, Kelvin I. "A Small Estate in Sussex," WW, 7, No. 1 (May 1984), 24-29.

This is part of a series of investigations of Holmes's cases that relate to his journeys on the South Western railway. Five is examined and the location of the Openshaws' house in Horsham. The essay is an excerpt from Sherlock Holmes and the South Western, a companion volume to Sherlock Holmes and the South Eastern.

C6799. Kennedy, Bruce. "Historical Inaccuracies in `The Five Orange Pips,'" PP, 3, No. 3 (1981), 5-8.

A study of the Ku Klux Klan as presented by Watson in Five compared with the true history of the Klan in the 1860's and 70's. The history of the Openshaw family as related to Holmes can only be termed bizarre as it will simply not wash when linked with the original KKK. The story should, perhaps, be renamed "The Five Orange Frauds."

C6800. Malec, Andrew. "Captain James Calhoun -- Worst of a Bad Lot," SP, 2, No. 1 (October 1979), 13-14.

Second-place winner in The Reigate Squires' Most Nefarious Villain of the Canon contest.

C6801. McCallister, David R. "Captain Mnemo, or It Strikes a Nerve," P&D, No. 178 (July 1993), 7-8.

The source of Finns and Germans as the crew of the Lone Star is posited as derived from a medical student's mnemonic device for the cranial nerves.

C6802. Sayle, Jane. "The Lomax Library -- Clark Russell,". BSPB, No. 9 (January 1992).

A brief article on William Clark Russell's sea stories, one of which Watson was reading when John Openshaw arrived at 221b.

C6803. Schweickert, William P. "A Child in the Chimney," PP, 3, No. 2 (1980), 6-11.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 35, No. 2 (June 1985), 102-104. (Something a Little Choice ...)

The provocative simile used by Watson in Five is found to refer to the crying of child chimney sweeps stuck in chimneys when fires were lit under them to bring them down.

C6804. Speck, Gordon R. "Conan Doyle, Piltdown Man, and `The Five Orange Pips': The Genesis Factor," CHJ, 7, No. 2 (February 1985), 2.

"Holmes might inadvertently be the source of the Piltdown hoax by providing the germ of the idea to Conan Doyle."

C6805. Speck, Gordon R. "E`pip'hany in `The Five Orange Pips,'" CHJ, 7, No. 3 (March 1985), 2-3.

The story is incomplete unless we assign plausible motives for the actions of the Openshaws and of Holmes himself.

C6806. Weller, Philip. "A Relative Question," FMHC Interim Report (1991), 33-35.

A Suggestion that Mary Morstan's "mother" in Five was actually her stepmother.

C6807. Williams, Newton M. "Ku Klux Klan," CHJ, 7, No. 2 (February 1985), 3.

A reproduction of the entry in the "American Encyclopedia" that Holmes asked Watson to hand him, with additional comment on other editions of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia.

C6808. -- A2457. Andrew, C. R. "Who Is Who, and When, in The Gloria Scott," Illustrious Client's Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1948.] p. 30-32.

Victor Trevor was not a natural son of Old Man Trevor but a stepson.

C6809. -- A2458. Lauterbach, Charles E. "Mutiny on the Gloria Scott," Baker Street Ballads. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, March 1971.] p. 2-3.

"The Gloria Scott her anchor hove, / Her sails flung to the breeze; / With pennants snapping, halyards taut, / She sought the seven seas."

C6810. -- A2459. Welch, George W. "The Terai Planter," BSJ, 6, No. 1 (January 1956), 35-39.

A clever but fantastic interpretation of the events at Donnithorpe.

C6811. -- B1025. Hathaway, John. "Another Case of Identity," VH, 7, No. 2 (April 1973), 7-8.

The captain of the Hotspur is identified as Jonathan Hornblower, a second cousin of Horatio Hornblower. The officer's name was omitted by Watson to protect the names of two of the British Empire's greatest families: Hornblower and Wellesley.

C6812. -- B1026. Olding, Alan C. "Transportation Problems," SHJ, 13, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 64. (Wigmore Street Postbag)

C6813. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `The Gloria Scott,'" NS, No. 22 (March 26, 1985), 7-11.

A brief summary of Carey's research on Glor. The adventure occurred between July 24 and September 16, 1875.

C6814. Dandrew, Thomas A. "The Early Holmes' Love Life, or What Was Really Going on Between Sherlock and the Trevors?" NS, No. 22 (March 26, 1985), 12-13.

Like Holmes, Dandrew reads "between the lines" in order to show that the detective was sexually involved with Victor's sister as well as with Victor and his father. (A revolting idea!)

C6815. Davies, Bernard. "Vacations and Stations," SHJ, 17, No. 2 (Summer 1985), 43-48; 17, No. 3 (Winter 1985), 74-78. illus.

"A broad view of the setting for the Adventure of the Two Students." (Subtitle)

C6816. Ditzler, Kirk. "The Game Is Up: `The Gloria Scott' Revisited," WW, 4, No. 2 (September 1981), 9-11

The discrepancies in dates and similarity to Bosc suggest that Holmes's alleged first case never occurred and was simply fabricated by Watson, perhaps to console himself after Holmes's "death" or for financial gain.

C6817. Fleissner, Robert F. "The Original Beddoes: A Further Suggestion," CH, 9, No. 2 (Winter 1985), 19-20.

Response to Sarjeant's article which argues that the name "Beddoes," used by Evans in Glor, drew upon that of Dr. Thomas Beddoes (rather than John Beddoe, as Donald Redmond suggests). The prototype of the name might rather have been Thomas Lovell Beddoes, whose career may well have interested Doyle. Beddoes was a poet much concerned with necrological subjects, hence a decadent. Also, he studied medicine.

C6818. Huber, Christine. "The Demise of the `Gloria Scott,'" CNFB, No. 3 (May 1984), 3-4.

"Dr. Watson left far too much to the reader's speculation concerning the demise of the `Gloria Scott,' did too little research into the case's background, or swallowed a Holmesian tale that was either erroneous or deliberately fictitious."

C6819. Lai, Rick. "Victor Trevor and the Sinister Savant," WW, 8, No. 1 (May 1985), 18-21.

After making his fortune in the Terai, Trevor returned to England and subsequently enrolled as a student at Cambridge. During the summer of 1882, he witnessed the peculiar persecution that befell Lottie Underwood in Doyle's "The Winning Shot." Upon Trevor's advice, Holmes was hired to investigate Lottie's abduction by the evil Dr. Gaster in 1883.

C6820. Mendelson, Abby. "Job Hunting: `The Gloria Scott,'" ND (March 1980), 6-8. (Mycroft's Musings)

"This impulse toward action brought about by troubled people begging him for help, combined with Holmes' remarkable power to read character from the slightest shreds of evidence, and with a mind able to unravel the tangled strands of any Gordian knot, all demonstrated in embryonic form in `The Gloria Scott,' are clearly what thrust Holmes upon his path as a consulting detective."

C6821. Sarjeant, William A. S. "The Original Beddoes," CH, 9, No. 1 (Autumn 1985), 21.

Beddoes, a country squire residing in Hampshire, is identified as Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1750-1808) -- physician, chemist, geologist, and philanthropist.

C6822. Thornton, J. S. III. "Ode to a Vicious Dog," NFSL (March 1981), 1-2.

"We've heard about the dog that did nothing in the night, / We've heard about the dog that gave Baskerville a fright, / But what of the dog that held Holmes' ankle tight?"

C6823. Walwyn, Brett. "`Gloria Scott' in Excelsis (and Imprimis)," CH, 13, No. 1 (Autumn 1989), 32.

A discussion of deductive reasoning as used by Holmes and other characters in the first Canonical case.

C6824. -- A2460. Andrew, C. R. "The Story I Like Best," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 1 (January 1947), 43-44.

"The Golden Pince-Nez has everything to make it the composite Sherlock Holmes tale."

C6825. -- A2461. Crocker, Stephen F. "Pseudepigraphical Matter in the Holmesian Canon," BSJ, 2, No. 3 (July 1952), 158-164.

Holmes's "short cut" in solving this case is compared with the first episode of The History of the Destruction of Bel and the Dragon as recorded in the Old Testament Apocrypha.

C6826. -- B1027. Herbert, Paul D. "The Adventure of the Gold Car-Buncombe," SHJ, 12, No. 3-4 (Summer 1976), 100-102. illus.

Speculates on why the word "Car" appeared in the original Strand Magazine diagram of Yoxley Old Place, only to be removed in all later printings of the case.

C6827. Cochran, William R. "The Return from the Ashes," CNFB, No. 8 (May 1986), 3-5.

This article identifies the name "Coram" with a legal term coram nobis, which means to seek justice through a review in the King's Bench of its own judgments as to errors of fact. It was the Czar who had blundered in the case of Alexis, and it was Professor Coram who provided this information. It would go a long way toward explaining why Anna commits suicide after having not committed a crime.

C6828. Harrington, Hugh T. "Anna the Nihilist, Detective," P&D, No. 146 (November 1990), 7.

A brief discussion of the detective work performed by the wife of Professor Coram, which is worthy of the Master himself.

C6829. Holly, Raymond L. "Notes for a Biography of Professor Sergius Coram," MM, Nos. 27-28 (October-December 1981), 21-23.

In return for giving evidence against fellow populists concerning the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, the Tsarist government gives a professor a pension and a new identity as a man named Karakorum from Yalta.

C6830. Jones, Kelvin I. "Yoxley Old Place," BSC, 3, No. 2 (March-April 1983), 8-9.

The country house of Professor Coram is identified as Rede House, located on Rede Court or Chapter Farm as it is now called. The street directories from 1891 to 1896 list Count Mankowski as its resident.

C6831. Redmond, Donald A. "The Palimpsest and the Forgeries," BSJ, 34, No. 3 (September 1984), 159-165.

In Gold, Holmes is engaged in deciphering a palimpsest. It is likely that it was a forgery linked to the notorious Battle Abbey forgeries that provided well-born English families with records taking them back to the Battle of Hastings.

C6832. Speck, Gordon R. "Through the Golden Pince-Nez: Focus on Conan Doyle," WW, 9, No. 1 (May 1986), 14-15.

Holmes's inferences about the golden pince-nez found at the scene of the crime owe much to incidental professional gossip from the Literary Agent that Watson has communicated to Holmes.

See also Mycroft Holmes

C6833. -- A2462. Symonds, R. F. The Greek (?) Interpreter. [Marblehead, Mass.: Privately Produced], April 30, 1948. 7 p.

C6834. -- B1028. Hoffmann, Banesh. "The Daughter and the Daters," BSJ, 23, No. 2 (June 1973), 76-77.

Andreas de Fonseca, a character in H. Rider Haggard's tale Montezuma's Daughter, 1892, makes Sherlockian deductions, suggesting that there could be more than meets the eye in Mycroft's words to Watson: "I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler." If so, the date of Gree could be 1900.

C6835. -- B1029. Thomas, Charles J. "Interpreting The Greek Interpreter," SHJ, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 81-83.

"Though there is only one case here, there are, in fact, three distinct stories. The first is the unknown rivalry between Sherlock and his brother Mycroft; the second covers the unfortunate circumstances of Paul and Sophy Kratides; and the third, and possibly most important of the three, is that of the connection between Professor James Moriarty and Wilson Kemp." Kemp is identified as Moriarty's third and older brother.

C6836. -- B1030. Zunic, Jim. "The First Greek Interpreter," BSJ, 28, No. 3 (September 1978), 157 158, 167.

Identifies the interpreter used by Kemp and Latimer before Melas, and suggests that this first interpreter sent the "curious newspaper cutting" from Buda-Pesth.

C6837. Beam, Thelma, and Emmanuel Digalakis. "The Greek Interpreter: A Family Tree," CH, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1990), 3-6.

Basilios Melas (1819-1884), the Greek expatriate who lived in London most of his adult life, served as the model for the Greek interpreter.

Winner of the True Davidson Memorial Award for 1989.

C6838. "Buda-Pesth Clipping Theories," SP, 2, No. 3 (April 1980), 6-9. illus.

Contents: Who Sent the Newspaper Cutting to Holmes? by Joe Brell. -- The Adventure of the Curious Cutting," by G.R. Skornickel, Jr.

Two theories are presented about the curious newspaper article Holmes and Watson received from Buda-Pesth (Budapest) concerning the death of two Englishmen.

C6839. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter,'" NS, No. 15 (June 21, 1983), 8-13.

A brief summary of the author's research on Gree. The case is dated September 10, 1884.

C6840. Dandrew, Thomas A. "Some Classical Greek Allusions in `The Greek Interpreter,'" NS, No. 15 (June 21, 1983), 3-6. illus.

Similarities between Gree and classical Greek literature indicate that Doyle may well have been calling upon his classical background when he wrote this story.

C6841. Keefauver, Brad. "Lurkers on the Threshold," WW, 7, No. 3 (January 1985), 24-28.

In order to discover the true fate of Kemp and Latimer in Gree, another look is taken at Devi, finding an other-wordly connection that indicates the pair were not quite as human as previously thought.

C6842. Keefauver, Brad. "A More Dangerous Game, or The Mastermind Unkempt," Afghanistanzas, 5, No. 6 (August 1981), 5-7.

----------. ----------, Afghanistanzas, 6, No. 6 (December 1982), 10-11.

Wilson Kemp, "a man of the foulest antecedents," is identified as the infamous James Moriarty.

C6843. Pasley, Robert S. "The Greek Interpreter Interpreted: A Revisionist Essay," BSJ, 35, No. 2 (June 1985), 106-111.

A re-reading of Gree inspired this revision of the received view of Mycroft Holmes, but confirmed Sherlock's observation that, while his brother was his superior in observation and deduction, he was incapable of detective work. The story is reviewed under two headings: (1) the problem and its solution, and (2) the action and its consequences. It is concluded that Mycroft's observations were insignificant and his deductions trivial, but his actions showed surprising energy, even though they were often inept. It was Sherlock, not Mycroft, who solved the problem (with Watson's aid) and took the decisive steps that saved Mela's life, although they were too late to prevent the escape of the criminals, the abduction of Sophy Kratides and the murder of Paul Kratides. Still, we cannot help liking Mycroft.

C6844. Purcell, J. M. "`The Greek Interpreter': An Illegal Limerick," WW, 5, No. 1 (May 1982), 12.

"Sherlock's outpaced / And Mycroft, disgraced. / Both get themselves aced / By a girl with a knife in Hungory."

C6845. Speck, Gordon R. "Unsocial and Unclubable," CHJ, 8, No. 7 (July 1986), 2-3.

Diogenes not only lends his name to the Diogenes Club but also his passion for truth and intellectual rigor. Holmes and Mycroft share these traits, explaining Mycroft's active role in helping Melas and Holmes's association with Watson.

C6846. Tattersall, James J. "Dating The Greek Interpreter," NFTDS 9, No. 1 (March 1988), 2-4

"The case of The Greek Interpreter took place on Wednesday evening, August, 19th 1885."

C6847. -- A2463. Austin, Bliss. Dartmoor Revisited, or Discoveries in Devonshire. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Hydraulic Press, 1964. [10] p. (A Baker Street Christmas Stocking, No. 10)

----------. "Dartmoor Revisited," Kalki, 3, No. 4 (Fall 1969), 131-134. illus.

About James Branch Cabell, Sir Richard Cabell (the original Sir Hugo Baskerville?), and Conan Doyle.

C6848. -- A2464. Baring-Gould, William S. "`Dr. Watson Has Gone to Widecombe,'" BSJ, 15, No. 1 (March 1965), 8-15.

The village of the Coombe Tracy is identified as a hamlet called Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Baskerville Hall as Lew House, Grimpen Mire as Grimspound Bog, Cleft Tor as Cleft Rock, and Foulmire as Fox Tor Mire. Illustrated with three of Julian Wolff's maps.

C6849. -- A2465. Baring-Gould, William S. "Introduction: But Hark! The Hound!" The Hound of the Baskervilles. [New York]: The New American Library, [June 19671. p. ix-xx.

"Here you will find Holmes and Watson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at their best."

C6850. -- A2466. Baskerville Hall. [Privately reproduced by Owen P. Frisbie.] [4] p.

----------. Page 1 reprinted in BSJ, 3, No. 1 (January 1953), 61.

A reproduction of the holograph manuscript, dated 1742, recounting the legend of the Baskervilles.

C6851. -- A2467. Bedford, Michael, and Bruce Dettman. "`A Cunning Preparation,'" BSJ, 16, No. 4 (December 1966), 231-233.

An illuminating discussion of the phosphorescent hound of the Baskervilles.

C6852. -- A2468. Bengis, Nathan L. "Variety Is the Spice of Sherlockiana," BSG, 1, No. 4 (April 1962), 37-46.

"A prolegomenon to a compendium of the various states of the 1902 American edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles, published by McClure, Phillips & Co." (Subtitle)

C6853. -- A2469. Bigelow, S. Tupper. "The Singular Case of Fletcher Robinson," BSG, 1, No. 2 (1961), 19-21.

"Fletcher Robinson was not only the inspiration of The Hound; he was a co-plotter and the co-fabricator of its details."

C6854. -- A2470. Boucher, Anthony. "Footnote to a Footnote," BSJ, 18, No. 2 (June 1968), 100-101.

The only two years in which Holmes could have had a box at Covent Garden for Les Huguenots during October were 1890 and 1891; and as 1891 was impossible, the probable date for this tale is 1890.

C6855. -- A2471. Campbell, Maurice. "The First Sherlockian Critic--1902," SHJ, 1, No. 2 (September 1952), 3-5, 24.

A commentary on Frank Sidgwick's letter (DA2504), part of which is quoted, concerning the various dates in Houn.

C6856. -- A2472. Campbell, Maurice. "The Hound of the Baskervilles: Dartmoor or Herefordshire?" Guy's Hospital Gazette, 67 (May 30, 1953), 196-204.

Evidence that the events in this adventure may have taken place in Herefordshire.

C6857. -- A2473. Christ, Jay Finley. "A Very Large Scale Map," SHJ, 6, No. 3 (Winter 1963), 72-74.

The author describes how he and Langdale Pike (his alternate Sherlockian ego) constructed a diagram of the Baskerville environs--within a five mile radius of the Hall.

C6858. -- A2474. Clark, Benjamin. "Dr. Mortimer Before the Bar," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 3 (July 1948), 2692-77.

----------. ----------, The Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 97-106.

The only way in the least degree likely that the spaniel could have penetrated the bog was, of course, in the company of his master, Dr. James Mortimer. If this contention is valid, it necessarily follows that Dr. Mortimer must have been in league with Stapleton."

C6859. -- A2475. Ellis, John Blunden. "The Chemistry of the Hound," SHJ, 7, No. 4 (Spring 1966), 132. (Wigmore Street Post-Bag)

C6860. -- A2476. Frisbie, Owen P. "On the Origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles," The Chronicle [Middleburg, Va.], 17, No. 3 (September 11, 1953).

----------. ----------, The Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 51-55.

On the origin of the Hound, nothing is known of blood lines. One can, however, form a reasonably accurate opinion as to what breeding would be necessary to produce a hound of his stamp."

C6861. -- A2477. Gordon, Richard M. "Sherlock Homage," EQMM, 51, No. 6 (June 1968), 130. (Crhymes)

----------. ----------, CPBook, 4, No. 15 (August 1968), 302.

"A Hound of Hell was sent to kill / The bad Sir Hugo Baskerville, / And then, at least so it appears, / It hung around for years and years / To dine on old Sir Hugo's heirs. / It was a sad state of affairs, / But it was fixed up nice and neat / By Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street."

C6862. -- A2478. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "Baskerville Hall," SHJ, 8, No. 2 (Spring 1967), 61.

A suggestion that Lustleigh, located three miles north of Bovey Tracey, is the original Baskerville Hall.

C6863. -- A2479. Hayes, Frederic, Harvey Barcus, and Ray King. "They Were the Footprints of What Hound?" Voices from Baker Street, 2. Ferndale, Mich.: The Old Soldiers of Baker Street, 1965. Side 2, Band 4.

"Members of the Amateur Mendicant Society and the Oakland County Kennel Club debate the breed of the Hound of the Baskervilles. AMS Frederic Hayes speaks for the Dachshund, AMS-OCKC Harvey Barcus argues the mastiff, and Ray King puts forward the points in favor of his beagle, Pierre, `who sweeps the morning dew.' Mr. King and Pierre carried the evening. Recorded, the Detroit Press Club, 1964." (Record album)

C6864. -- A2480. Hoerr, Willmer A. "The Case of the Disturbing Double," BSJ, 18, No. 4 (December 1968), 220-221.

Certain similarities between Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Houn suggest that Watson may have been guilty of a bit of plagiarism.

C6865. -- A2481. Holland, Glenn S. "On the Origin of the Hound," BSJ, 19, No. 1 (March 1969), 34-37.

The ancient legend of the Baskervilles is skillfully re-constructed.

C6866. -- A2482. Holroyd, James Edward. "The Shaggiest Dog," Baker Street By-ways. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1959]. p. 87-91.

C6867. -- A2483. Howard, Alan. "A New Year for the Hound," SHJ, 2, No. 3 (Summer 1955), 3-6.

An argument in favor of the year 1894.

C6868. -- A2484. Jenkins, William D. "Elementary, My Dear Cabell," Kalki, 3, No. 4 (Fall 1969), 134-135. illus.

Considers another possible point of contact between Cabell and Doyle in addition to the one in Houn.

C6869. -- A2485. Jones, G. Basil. "The Dog and the Date," SHJ, 2, No. 2 (December 1954), 11-13.

The adventure took place in 1899, after The Return, but was deliberately antedated to conceal the fact that Holmes was still alive.

C6870. -- A2486. Jones, Kelvin I. "The Geography of The Hound of the Baskervilles," SHJ, 7, No. 3 (Winter 1965), 84-86, 96.

An essay on Baskerville Hall and its environs in which Wooder Manor, near Hedge Barton, is identified as the Hall.

C6871. -- A2487. Kissane, James and John M. "Sherlock Holmes and the Ritual of Reason," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 17, No. 4 (March 1963), 353-362.

Houn almost uniquely shows the hero-detective specifically championing empirical science against the challenge of the supernatural. Essential to the story's ritualistic design, the supernatural alternative is presented but is never really insistent.

C6872. -- A2488. [Knox, E. V.] "A Ramble on Dartmoor," by Evoe. Punch, 214 (January 21, 1948), 46.

----------. ----------, [Extracts] BSCL, No. 7 (1969), 7-8.

The thesis is advanced that the tale was originally written in verse and may even have been intended for grand opera.

C6873. -- A2489. Krogman, W. M. "Anthropology in The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 20, No. 3 (September 1970), 132-136.

In this adventure the Master showed a good working knowledge of anthropology. His knowledge of archeology is shown by repeated reference to prehistoric burial tumuli or barrows. In racial matters he referred to problems of ethnic background, even going so far as to equate behavior patterns with ethnic type. In a purely biological sense he and Sir Henry discussed the "anatomical peculiarities" of the peoples of South Africa (probably the Bushman specifically). The Master's use of anthropological lore mirrored the knowledge and ideas of his day.

C6874. -- A2490. Lauterbach, Charles E. "The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 4, No. 3 (July 1954), 164.

----------. ----------, Baker Street Ballads. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, March 1971.] p. 1.

A tale in verse set to the meter of "The Night Before Christmas."

C6875. -- A2491. [Maurice, Arthur Bartlett.] "More Sherlock Holmes Theories," The Bookman, 15, No. 3 (May 1902), 215-218.

----------. ----------, The Incunabular Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1958. p. 3-11.

A review of the story in its serialized form.

C6876. -- A2492. May, R. F. "The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Botanical Enquiry," SHJ, 6, No. 1 (Winter 1962), 26.

Speculation about some rare orchids that may have been growing on the moor.

C6877. -- A2493. McLauchlin, Russell. "Name That Hound!" BSJ, 9, No. 2 (April 1959), 83-84.

It is suggested that the hound's name was Tray.

C6878. -- A2494. Merriman, Charles O. "Random Baskerville Jottings," SHJ, 9, No. 2 (Summer 1969), 48-50.

An illustrated description of several sites of Sherlockian interest that the author visited during a West County holiday.

C6879. -- A2495. Metcalfe, Percy. "In Search of Baskerville Hall," SHJ, 7, No. 1 (Winter 1964), 6-8.

The author's visits to Dartmoor have led him to conclude that Manaton is the site of the Hall.

C6880. -- A2496. Morley, Felix. "An Addendum to `Dr. Watson Has Gone to Widecombe,'" BSJ, 15, No. 1 (March 1965), 16-17.

Watson did not go to Widecombe (Coombe Tracy) as suggested by Baring-Gould (DA2464) to interview Mrs. Laura Lyons but to Bovey Tracey.

C6881. -- A2497. Pattrick, Robert R. "Watson Writes from Baskerville Hall," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 5 (1960), 293-298.

"The last two of the seven reports Watson sent Holmes at Dartmoor never reached him, because Holmes only learned by other means of Watson's observing him in disguise, of the relationship between Selden and Mrs. Barrymore, and of the `L. L.' note to Sir Charles." (Mark Purcell)

C6882. -- A2498. Pickard, Charles M. "The Reticence of Doctor Mortimer," BSJ, 7, No. 3 (July 1957), 153-155.

Dr. James Mortimer noticed the resemblance between Stapleton and the portrait of Hugo Baskerville and related his suspicions to Holmes, but Holmes admonished him to remain silent.

C6883. -- A2499. Pratt, Fletcher. "Introduction," The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. Vol. 2, p. v-xi.

----------. ----------, Introducing Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1959. [unpaged]

"The Hound of the Baskervilles ... possesses an extraordinary degree of interest, as being not only the single case in which Conan Doyle transcended the limitations and produced an absolutely pure detective story in the long form, but one of the few cases in which any one ever did."

C6884. -- A2500. [Rabe, W. T.] Footprint of the Hound Found in the Yew Alley of Baskerville Hall. [Ferndale, Mich.: Privately Printed, 1964.] 1 sheet (20 x 14 in.)

"Reproduction courtesy [of the] Criminal Investigation Division, New Scotland Yard. Case assignment: Inspector Lestrade, ret. Aug. 3, 1964."

Enclosed with a letter dated October 22, 1964, to W. T. Rabe from G. Lestrade in which he discusses the footprint of the gigantic hound.

C6885. -- A2501. Ruber, P. A. "On a Defense of H. W. Bell," BSG, 1, No. 3 (1961), 15-17.

"... [the] evidence is enough to prove The Hound took place before April, 1891, the date of The Final Problem. Then, taking into account that Watson was married to Mary Morstan in late fall of 1887, and that he did not have any wife at the time of The Hound, plus the other reasoning outlined in Mr. Bell's work,... would definitely prove that September, 1886, is as logical as all the other dates offered by the remaining chronologists."

C6886. -- A2502. Ruber, P. A. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Fletcher Robinson: An Epitaph," BSG, 1, No. 2 (1961), 22-28.

"We shall always be grateful to both Sir Arthur and Fletcher Robinson for their Hound story. It shall always be considered a collaboration, for one without the other would not have given us the greatest of the Tales. Here live eternally the two renowned--they live--though we may pass away."

C6887. -- A2503. San Juan, E. "Reflections on The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 20, No. 3 (September 1970), 137-139.

C6888. -- A2504. S [Sidgwick], F [Frank]. "`The Hound of the Baskervilles' at Fault (An Open Letter to Dr. Watson)," The Cambridge Review, 23, No. 574 (January 23, 1902), 137.

----------. ----------, The Incunabular Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1958. p. 13-16.

----------. ----------, BSCL, No. 7 (1969), 4-6.

Identified by A. A. Milne and, later, by Maurice Campbell as being the first study in Sherlockian higher criticism.

C6889. -- A2505. Simms, Bartlett Dale. "Devonshire Again," BSJ, 21, No. 2 (June 1971), 107-109.

Newton Tracey and the area south of Okehampton and the village of Merrymeet should be considered as a possible locale for Houn. This environment seems to be verified by Herbert Carey in "Down Devon Lanes," where the lonely moors, the Dartmoor bogs, the ponies, etc., are mentioned. Chagford, a resort area, was the focal point of the tale and legend.

C6890. -- A2506. Solovay, Jacob C. "The Hound," BSJ, 14, No. 3 (September 1964), 161.

"Savage and gaunt, with jaws of bluish flame, / Huge as a lioness, with fire-ringed eyes, / Creature of fear and horror to despise, / Too weird for thought, too wicked for a name."

C6891. -- A2507. Spectorsky, Fannie. "My Experience with Jean de Reszke," BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 148-149.

A brief account of Mrs. Spectorsky's singing lessons with le maître, de Reszke, a name mentioned by Holmes in Houn.

C6892. -- A2508. Starrett, Vincent. "The Hound of the Baskervilles", Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century. New York: Bantam Books, [1955]. p. 4-6.

"There are sixty recorded adventures in the Holmes canon. Of these The Hound of the Baskervilles is probably the masterpiece, in Christopher Morley's opinion and mine."

C6893. -- A2509. Welch, George W. "A Study in Moonlight," BSG, 1, No. 3 (1961), 18-25.

"This article is an attempt to prove that this case took place, not in 1889, nor in 1886 (as suggested by Mr. H. W. Bell), nor yet in 1899 (the year favoured by Mr. Gavin Brend), but in that `annus mirabilis,' 1894."

C6894. -- B1031. Austin, Bliss. "Is There an Exorcist in the House?" BSCS, No. 20 (1974), 3, 5.

An official guidebook to Buckfastleigh mentions the "pent-house tomb" of Sir Richard Cambell (sic Cabell), the prototype of Sir Hugo Baskerville. The description and a photograph of the tomb are reproduced by Dr. Austin.

See also DA2463.

C6895. -- B1032. Barzun, Jacques, and Wendell Hertig Taylor. "The Hound of the Baskervilles," A Book of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1976. p. 41-42.

Limited to 250 numbered copies, of which 50 are signed by the authors.

Reprint of the preface in The Hound of the Baskervilles (Garland Publishing, 1976).

C6896. -- B1033. Black, Stuart. "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the Dartmoor," John O'London's, 61 (November 21, 1952), 1048-1049. illus.

Harry M. Baskerville and the two tales laid on the Moor (Houn and Silv) are the subjects of this interesting article by an author intimately acquainted with Dartmoor.

C6897. -- B1034. Burton, Michael L. "On the Hound," BSJ, 25, No. 3 (September 1975), 154-158.

Winner of the 18th annual Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1975.

Watson informs us that the savage "hound of hell" was a cross between a bloodhound and mastiff. In this article the exact origin of the legendary canine is discussed. Besides the Mastiff/Bloodhound, the possible candidates include the Irish Wolfhound, the Great Dane, the Scottish Deerhound, and others. The historical lineage of the various breeds is traced and conclusions are drawn on what type of dog the beast was.

C6898. -- B1035. Campbell, Maurice. "The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Dartmoor or Herefordshire?" SHJ, 12, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 15-19. illus. (Yours Incunabularly, No. 2)

First published in Guy's Hospital Gazette, May 30, 1953 (DA2472).

C6899. -- B1036. Chambers, Peter. "Baskerville (of Hound Fame) Used to Live Here," Daily Express (July 19, 1975), 12. (Holiday Express)

An interview with National Park guide Mervyn Webber about his grandfather who played on the same village cricket team as Harry Baskerville.

C6900. -- B1037. Cramer, William S. "The Creative Dr. Watson: A Discourse on Some Fictions Found in The Hound," BSJ, 26, No. 3 (September 1976), 157 159.

Dr. Watson, as a professional writer ever cognizant of the need to write his accounts of Holmes's cases so that they appealed to his reading public, purposefully fabricated portions of the Canon in order to assure an exciting, saleable story. This article discusses portions of Houn that supposedly received such treatment.

C6901. -- B1038. Crandell, Richard F. "Land of Conan Doyle Is Fun," The New York Herald Tribune (August 15, 1963).

How children summering at the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund wilderness camp transformed the lakesite into the Great Grimpen Mire.

C6902. -- B1039. Curjel, Harald. "The Dartmoor Campaign," SHJ, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 41-46. illus.

Contents: Lines of Communication. -- Baskerville Hall and Environs. -- The Track to Merripit House. -- The Chase After Selden. -- Merripit House. -- The Tactics.

C6903. -- B1040. Evans, Peter. "The Mystery of Baskerville," Daily Express (March 16, 1959).

----------. ----------, The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 84-85.

Harry Baskerville tells the incredulous story of how Fletcher Robinson co-authored Houn.

See also DA2469 and DA2502.

C6904. -- B1041. Fowles, John. "Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of Death," The Observer Magazine (January 13, 1974), 14-15, 17-18, 20. illus.

----------. "Foreword" and "Afterword," The Hound of the Baskervilles. [London]: John Murray and Jonathan Cape, [1974]. p. 7-11, 186-196.

C6905. -- B1042. Ghillyer, P. F. "The Moor Legend," Western Evening Herald (November 1, 1972), 7.

Recent sightings on Dartmoor of a mysterious large animal has given rise to this letter on the origin of the Hound.

C6906. -- B1043. "Harry Baskerville: His Name Has Gone Down in Mystery!" South Devon Journal (October 17, 1951).

Illustrated with Stuart Black's portrait of Baskerville.

C6907. -- B1044. "Harry Baskerville Dies: Conan Doyle Used His Name," The New York Herald Tribune (April 2, 1962).

C6908. -- B1045. Haydock, Ron. "Sherlock Holmes and the True Legend of The Hound of the Baskervilles," The History of Sherlock Holmes in Stage, Films, T.V. & Radio Since 1899 (1975), 10- 15. (E-GO Collectors Series, No. 1)

Rathbone tells Haydock the real-life legend of the Hound, as related to Doyle by Bertram Fletcher Robinson. Includes thirteen illustrations with descriptions.

C6909. -- B1046. Hedlund, Magnus. "Sherlock Holmes -- död eller levande?" Göteborgs Handels och Sjöfarts-Tidning [Göteborg, Sweden] (August 16, 1971), 3. illus.

C6910. -- B1047. Herzog, Evelyn. "The Cento of the Baskervilles," edited by Evelyn Herzog. BSJ, 25, No. 1 (March 1975), 36- 42.

A marvellous reconstruction, in 207 lines, of the poetic version of Houn. (The theory that the story was originally written in verse was first advanced by E. V. Knox [DA2488])

C6911. -- B1048. Hoerr, Willmer A. "The Case of the Sundry Sources," BSJ, 22, No. 4 (December 1972), 215-218.

Speculates on how Houn was influenced by other literary works.

C6912. -- B1049. Holroyd, James Edward. "The Shaggiest Dog," The Manchester Guardian Weekly (December 28, 1951).

First appearance of DA2482.

C6913. -- B1050. Horton, Christopher. "Days on Dartmoor," Coming Events in Britain (December 1960), 24-27, 49. illus.

Mentions the Dartmoor settings in Houn and Silv.

C6914. -- B1051. Jaeger, Frederick J. "The Legend of Grimpen Mire," The Garroter, 1, No. 1 (March 1972), 12.

----------. ----------, Illustrated by Roy Hunt. PD (NS), 2, No. 1 (1973), 27.

"Sherlock Holmes did his best./ His bullets laid The Hound to rest,/ But that H-0-W-L will never die, / As long as there's a B.S.I."

C6915. -- B1052. Jaeger, Frederick J. and Rose M. Vogel. The Hound from Hell. Illustration by Sue Murphy. [N.p.: Privately Produced], April 1972. 14 p.

Spiral binding.

Limited to 100 copies.

A summary of the adventure and a new solution, revealing that Holmes did not discover the truth.

C6916. -- B1053. Lauterbach, Stewart. "A Canine-ical Limerick," BSM, 1, No. 3 (September 1975), 17.

"There was a notorious hound / Who o'er Dartmoor would fiendishly bound. / When Watson asked `Why?' / Sherlock Holmes would reply, / `He's just chasing his tail round and round!'"

C6917. -- B1054. Lawson, Ruth. "The Hound's Lament," Sung to the tune of "Oh! Susannah." JAMS, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1972), 9.

"So, dear Sherlock, / Why don't you cry for me?/ Stapleton's the villain, / So please lay off of me!"

C6918. -- B1056. Marshall, Guy R. L. "The Hound of Hound Tor," SHJ, 12, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 29-30. illus.

An account of the Society's visit to Dartmoor, where the members not only saw a hound but also what may have been the Master himself. (A photograph of the hound and detective appears on the front of the Society's Christmas card for 1975.)

C6919. -- B1057. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Conan Doyle's `The Hound of the Baskervilles.'" The Bookman, 15, No. 3 (May 1902), 252- 255. illus. (Seven Novels of Importance, 1)

"As a story of mystery and horror, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a success; for Sherlock Holmes, the Master of the Science of Deduction, whose creator has proclaimed him the peer of Dupin and of Lecoq, it is a débácle."

C6920. -- B1058. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "The Footprints of the Baskerville Hound," The Bookman, 14, No. 6 (February 1902), 554-555.

Theorizes, after five instalments, that Sir Henry's boots were stolen to determine if he had been cursed with the feet of a hound and, therefore, was the murderer of Sir Charles -- a strange but interesting hypothesis.

C6921. -- B1059. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "The New Sherlock Holmes Story," The Bookman, 14, No. 2 (October 1901), 110.

Attributes the authorship of Houn "almost entirely" to Fletcher Robinson!

C6922. -- B1060. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "A Sherlock Holmes Number," The Bookman, 15, No. 2 (April 1902), 114-115.

Further commentary on Houn in advance of the final instalment in the May issue of The Strand Magazine.

C6923. -- B1055. McQueen, Ian. "The Hound -- Success or Failure'?" SHJ, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 46.

A summary of the author's contribution to the Society's meeting on September 30, 1975, in which he notes some curiosities about this "successful" case.

C6924. -- B1061. [Morris, Francine.] "A Word on Behalf of the Hound," DCC, 11, No. 4-5 (September 1975), 3-4.

A heretofore unpublished letter to the editor of the Dartmoor Kennel Club Journal, signed "Adelaide Matilda Cock-Bullington."

C6925. -- B1062. O'Brien, Emily. "Did Stapleton Escape to Samoa?" BSJ, 27, No. 4 (December 1977), 206-208.

Jack Stapleton, evil genius of the Baskervilles, disappeared in the Grimpen Mire in his flight from justice, and was presumed dead. Some years later, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about a scheming English trader who had gained control of a South Sea island. The resemblance between the two seemed more than coincidental. The use by both of phosphorescent paints, local superstitions, and sheer ruthlessness to gain evil ends, along with their matching physical characteristics, strongly suggest that Stapleton escaped from Sherlock Holmes to work further mischief.

C6926. -- B1063. [Overn, Joanna.] "A Detective's Lot Is Not a Happy One!" (With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan), JAMS, 1, No. 2 (Summer 1972), 8.

"When John Stapleton's engaged in his employment, (his employment)...."

C6927. -- B1064. [Pearson, Edmund.] "The Librarian," Boston Evening Transcript (September 15, 1909), 23.

Tells of his annoyance at having to read Houn in monthly installments.

C6928. -- B1065. Plimpton, Calvin H. "Reflections of Mr. James Mortimer, M.B., L.R.C.I.P., L.R.C.I.S., M.R.C.S., Formerly of Charing Cross Hospital, on Attending a Dinner, November 20, 1970), at Baskerville Hall," (as transcribed by Calvin H. Plimpton, M.D.) BSJ, 27, No. 3 (September 1977), 133-135. "Appendix," by Robert B. Whitney, 136.

Mr. Mortimer, as a real doctor, would have recognized the exquisite pain of phosphorus when implanted on the skin of the Hound of the Baskervilles, and that if it were planted once, the Hound would never let it happen again!

C6929. -- B1066. Poston, Lawrence, III. "The D'Urbervilles and the Baskervilles: Two Sets of Noble Kinsmen?" BSJ, 22, No. 4 (December 1972), 212-214.

Parallels between Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891, and Houn.

C6930. -- B1067. Robinson, Roger. "The Hound: Dartmoor or Oxfordshire?" SHJ, 13, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 40-42. illus.

"Houn took place, not on the wilds of Dartmoor, but on the meadowland of Oxfordshire-near Shiplake."

C6931. -- B1068. Rose, Lloyd. "Cave Canem Nocte: The Folklore Origins of the Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 26 No. 3 (September 1976), 154-156.

The Baskerville Hound is a composite of two ancient legends about Black Dogs and Hounds.

C6932. -- B1069. Rosenberger, Edgar S. "It Was No Fairy Tale," BSJ, 25, No. 1 (March 1975), 5-9.

A tale in verse.

C6933. -- B1070. Scherman, David E., and Richard Wilcox. "Dartmoor," Literary England: Photographs of Places Made Memorable in English Literature. [Photographs by] David E. Scherman & [descriptive text by] Richard Wilcox; a preface by Christopher Morley. New York: Random House, [1944]. No. 40.

A photograph of Dartmoor, "a place of rock and waste land," accompanied by a descriptive note and a passage from Houn.

C6934. -- B1071. Starrett, Vincent. "Conan Doyle's Celebrated `Hound of the Baskervilles,'" Chicago Tribune (January 10, 1954), 3, 11. illus. ("The Best Loved Books")

First appearance of DA2508.

C6935. -- B1072. Stone, Ridley. "'ound's Tooth," [Unpublished verse, September 1969]. 2 p. illus.

An old man, claiming to have been a page at 221b, accosts an American seeking the address, indicates its location, and then shows and offers to sell a tooth asserted to be from the Hound. The tooth was given by Sir Henry Baskerville to Holmes, and later recognized and bought from a pawnshop by the old man. The man disappears in the fog, leaving the American staring at the tooth in his hand.

C6936. -- B1073. Watt, Donald J. "The Literary Craft of The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 22, No. 4 (December 1972), 207-211.

"In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle presents a fully developed yarn. The structuring of the plot carries the reader smoothly from Mortimer's cane to Stapleton's bog. The contrasting environments of sophisticated London and the primeval moor intensity the threat of lurking evil most effectively. And the figures of the mire and the net reinforce Doyle's theme tellingly at crucial junctures of the story line."

C6937. -- B1074. Wilson, Barbara L. "`Hound of the Baskervilles,'" The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine (July 15, 1951). illus. (Capsule Classic)

A synopsis of the story; with a photograph of Barlowe Borland and Nigel Bruce from the 20th Century-Fox production of the film.

C6938. Amick, Charles. "Dogged Doggerel," PP (NS), No. 7 (September 1990), 14.

A retelling of Houn in eight stanzas.

C6939. Anderson, David. "Grim Suggestiveness: Sense of Place in The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSM, No. 24 (Winter 1980), 11-17.

Sense of place in Houn emphasizes the story's literal meaning, but it also reinforces the mythic content. The moor is presented as a place of melancholy, darkness and sinister gloom, the home of Stapleton and the Hound. Opposed to it are Holmes, Watson, and Baskerville, men of optimism, light, London. The ensuing struggle becomes a struggle between order and disorder -- one that is both resonant and relevant.

C6940. Armstrong, Walter P., Jr. "Sherlock Holmes Adds a Word," Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, 14, No. 3 (Winter 1988), 1-2.

In Houn, Watson describes the great Grimpen Mire. T. S. Eliot picked this up and in "East Coker" refers to "a grimpen, where is no secure foothold." Trevor Hall in Sherlock Holmes and His Creator says that the word is not to be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and does not exist as a common noun in the English language. But the word is included in Volume 1 of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. Doyle should be credited with adding a word to our native vocabulary.

C6941. Ashe, Rosalind. Literary Houses. New York: Facts on File, [1982]. 139 p. illus.

An exquisitely illustrated and fascinating guide to ten famous houses in fiction, including, of course, Baskerville Hall. The chapter entitled "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (p. 126-139) features a floor plan and seven illustrations by David O'Connor, one of which is reproduced on the jacket.

C6942. Austin, Bliss. "Dartmoor Revisited," BSM, No. 39 (Autumn 1984), 17-21.

First appeared as Dr. Austin's 1964 Baker Street Christmas Stocking (DA2463).

C6943. Austin, Bliss. "Holmes as a Best Seller," BSCS, No. 27 (Christmas 1981), 1-8.

A study of the early sales in this country of Houn. It was published on April 15, 1902, and within a month was in its 70th thousand. According to The Bookman of that period, it was the best seller in the U.S. during April and May.

C6944. Balslev, Estrid. "Detection vs. Superstition," Sherlockiana, 37, Nr. 1 (1992), 12.

"`Come, Watson, let's unravel the foul plot,' / Says Holmes. And so, thank God, the Hound is shot."

C6945. Bengtsson, Ingela. "I Sherlocks spar över spökheden" ["In Sherlock's Footsteps over the Spooky Moor"], Dagens Nyheter (November 15, 1987). illus.

A full-page article with a photo of Hound Tor and the cover of Baskervilles Hund.

C6946. Berdan, Marshall S. "Perversion in the Canon: Dementia à la Devonshire," BSJ, 40, No. 3 (September 1990), 149-155.

This highly irregular study in psychological scarlet focuses on the deranged and demented denizens of Dartmoor encountered by Holmes and Watson during their sojourn in the West Country. The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville pales in comparison to the cornucopia of abnormal psychotics gleaned in this "affected" analysis of the all-too-human elements of the most popular of all Sherlockian narratives.

C6947. Brody, Howard. "The Location of Baskerville Hall," BSJ, 29, No. 4 (December 1979), 229-234. illus.

Internal evidence from Houn is compared with actual Dartmoor topography, yielding the conclusion that Baskerville Hall must have been located at or near a site labelled Hayford Hall on modern ordnance maps. Reasons are offered for rejecting the traditional Baring-Gould identifications of Baskerville Hall with Lew House, etc.

Winner of the 22nd annual Feldman Morley-Montgomery Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1979.

C6948. Brown, Terence. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Notes by Terrence Brown. [London]: Longman York Press, [1980]. 72 p. (York Notes, 53)

Spine title: York Notes on The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Contents: 1. Introduction. -- 2. Summaries. -- 3. Commentary. -- 4. Hints for Study. -- 5. Suggestions for Further Reading.

C6949. Burke, Meaghan. "Pilgrimage," LBCCSJ, No. 2 (August 1986).

"The Baskerville curse of Sir Arthur's fable / I perceived in life as my Holy Grail / Since childhood days, Sherlockian ways / Were nutured from this Canon."

C6950. Burr, Robert C. The Clayton Ritual. [Peoria, Ill.: The Hansoms of John Clayton, September 29, 1984.] 1 p.

"What was his name? / John Clayton. Where did he live? / No. 3, Turpey Street, the Borough."

C6951. Cabell, Branch. Ladies and Gentlemen. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1934. x, 304 p.

"A parcel of reconsiderations," including "The Fifteenth Letter: To Richard Cabell of Buckfastleigh, Devon, Armiger, Lord of the Manor of Brooke" (p. 211-225).

C6952. Campbell, Karen. "Baskerville Hall," CH, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1990), 26-27.

A verse in six stanzas, beginning with the lines "Where would you look for things evil and murderous? / Where would you find the cruel baronet, Hugo ... / Where would you search for the baronet, Henry ... / Where did the good Doctor Watson then travel ... / Where would you look for things dark and mysterious ... / Where were the London detective and doctor / When the adventure was over and done?"

C6953. Campbell, Mary. "Toronto Bootmakers Actually Made Boots," CH, 11, No. 1 (Autumn 1987), 11-13, 43.

Moving from ancient Greece through Rome and England to North America, the author traces the history of a craft known for literacy, political involvement and militancy as well as for merchandise on which it was safe for all classes to take a stand. The author also suggests that the most likely candidate for Meyers is James M. Redmond.

C6954. Campbell, Maurice. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Dartmoor or Herefordshire? [New York City: Magico Magazine, n.d., 1983.] 9 p. illus.

Limited to 500 copies.

Reprinted from Guy's Hospital Gazette, May 30, 1953 (DA2472).

C6955. Charity, Andrew S. "The Death of the Hound," Afghanistanzas, 7, No. 2 (March 1983), 3.

"A giant, spectral hound appeared / It struck us rather cold. / For it was glowing like a flame / No longer were we bold."

C6956. Christensen, Peter. "The Nature of Evil in The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 29, No. 4 (December 1979), 209-211, 213.

In the bestial, even mad, character of Selden, Houn shows the influence of contemporary biological-criminological theory. The character of Stapleton demonstrates, however, that Doyle believed that the evil which lurks beneath the surface is far more dangerous. The symbolic pattern of the novel and its juxtaposition of civilization and the forces of evil and chaos emphasize the theme of reversion which permeates the story.

C6957. Cochran, William R. "`Eddy' Baskerville: The Genus of the Curse?" CNFB, No. 9 (August 1986), 4-5.

The name of Lord Clarendon, which is mentioned in the "curse" segment of Houn, may well point to "Eddy," the Duke of Clarence. Not only does the name sound like Clarence, but the largest scandal involving "Eddy" was the Clarendon Street Scandal. Was the curse a cleansing of the spirit for Doyle? Was "Eddy" the model for Sir Hugo?

C6958. Cooke, Michael L. The Ancient Curse of the Baskervilles. Plymouth: J.P. Ingham & Son, 1885 ("reprinted" by Gaslight Publications, Bloomington, Ind., 1984). xiv, 63 p.

Written as if published by The Dartmoor Society in 1885, and as "Michael Cooke, F.R.C.S.," this book provides the full story of the curse that followed the Baskerville family, bringing several to sudden, bloody, and mysterious deaths, including their genealogy and early history. The prevailing atmosphere of the region adds to the situation on which Doyle, three years later, based his now famous tale. This is a "facsimile" edition of Dr. James Mortimer's own inscribed copy, and includes a holograph letter to him from Laura Lyons dated February 1889.

Reviews: BSM, No. 39 (Autumn 1984), 46-47 (Donald K. Pollock, Jr.); Canonfire, 2, No. 3 (September 1984), 2 (Bob Rapp).

C6959. Cox, Don Richard. "A Darwinian Cosmos: The Art of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles," BSM, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 14-20.

An analysis of Houn which Cox calls "the best of all the Holmes stories. ... In this novel, unlike the other novels and short stories in the Holmes canon, Doyle establishes a cosmology, an external philosophical framework in which his detective and loyal friend operate. What Doyle produces might properly be labelled a work of literature and not simply a piece of detective fiction."

C6960. Curjel, Harald. "Green Glows the Goyal," BSJ, 30, No. 1 (March 1980), 13-16.

"The hounds in the Baskerville kennels were mixed cross-breeds with bloodhound, boarhound, and wolfhound genes in them. Another possibility is that some of them were bloodhound/mastiff crosses. It seems that the mastiff of the Middle Ages was a lighter, swifter creature than the rather ponderous watchdog of more recent times. Thus a cross-bred mastiff would have made a swift and ferocious hunting hound."

C6961. Davies, Bernard. "Railways and Roads in `The Hound...'" SHJ, 14, No. 2 (Winter 1979), 52-56; 14, Nos, 3-4 (Summer 1980), 93-98, 109. illus.

"The rail and road links in The Hound have yielded solutions to several major problems: exactly where `Coombe Tracey' was, for instance, or what platform Dr. Watson alighted at, feeling his tweed suit a shade too hot in that afternoon sun. They have even served to narrow down considerably the potential field of search for Baskerville Hall. Yet that field is still wide enough to test our wits and exercise our prejudices. And, if the Baskerville Country in all its infuriating disarray still remains a `nostalgic country of the mind,' then at least we know that it is a country of the mind where it is always -- beyond any dispute -- 1900."

C6962. Davies, David Stuart. "The Strange Case of the Solitary Husband," The Sherlockian, 2, No. 1 (1988), 9-11.

----------. ----------, BSM, No. 60 (Winter 1989), 30-31.

A consideration of the sad situation of Dr. James Mortimer, using evidence presented in the story. "His wife was obviously an ogre who dominated the country practitioner."

C6963. Dirlam, Daphne. "The House of the Baskervilles," PP (NS), No. 7 (September 1990), 17-22.

Traces the genealogy of the Baskervilles, from the original Hugo, in the time of Richard II, down to Henry and his distant cousin, Roger Stapleton. Includes the family tree on pages 19-20.

C6964. Djabri, Susan Cabell. The Story of the Sepulchre: The Cabells of Buckfastleigh and the Conan Doyle Connection. [London: Privately Printed, 1989.] 15 p. illus.

"A detailed account of the family, including the third Richard Cabell (who was happily married though unpopular in Devon) and his daughter Elizabeth (who at the age of 15 inherited the Cabell estates and at the age of 35 married Sir John D'Oyly, and who, when her husband died, discovered that she was one of his two widows)." (Peter E. Blau)

Review: BSJ, 40, No. 3 (September 1990), 185 (Philip A. Shreffler).

C6965. Douglas, Alexander R. "The Hound of the Baskervilles," WF, 3, No. 1 (Winter 1985), 1-3.

Agrees with The Rev. Basil Jones that Houn took place in 1901; also comments on some errors that Watson may have made in reporting the case.

C6966. Drazen, Patrick E. "On the de Reszkes," CHJ, 4, No. 6 (June 1982), 2-4.

In spite of the ambiguity in the dating of Houn, it is still possible that Holmes and Watson could have attended a performance of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots, starring the brothers Jean and Edouard de Reszke.

C6967. Engholm, Kaj. "Om besynderlige tilfaelde af hattebytninger i `Baskervilles Hund,'" Sherlockiana, 25, Nr. 1 (1980), 4-6. illus.

C6968. Ferguson, Paul F. "Narrative Vision in The Hound of the Baskervilles," Clues: A Journal of Detection, 1, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1980), 24-30.

"In the conflict between the scientific imagination and the artistic imagination ... Watson clearly emerges the victor. His impressionistic perception of things may make him a less competent detective than Holmes, but it certainly makes him a better artist with a greater intuitive sense of truth. And it certainly makes him a more sensitive human being."

C6969. Fleissner, Robert F. "The Hound of the Baskervilles De-Mythologized?" The Sherlockian, 1, No. 3 (1987), 29-33.

This pastiche deals with the curious circumstance that the Hound was an unconscious conflation of Francis Thompson's hound of heaven and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

C6970. Folsom, Henry T. "The Dating of The Hound of the Baskervilles," NZI, 2, No. 1 (August 1992), 68-71.

A somewhat altered excerpt from the final version of Through the Years at Baker Street (1991), dating Houn from September 25 to October 20, 1900.

C6971. Furness, Adrian. [Untitled] [Source and date unknown]

----------. ----------, PUn, 14, No. 1 (February 1990), 2.

An account of the author's and Jeremy Brett's visit to Dartmoor "for a Baskerville hunt."

C6972. Galerstein, David H. "Sir Roger's Wish," EQMM, 80, No. 2 (mid-July 1982), 50. (Detectiverse)

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"`Son, when you drive o'er Dartmoor's hills, / Past mires and meres and mellow hills, / Good Devon's folk will see, with chills, / The Honda of the Baskervilles."'

C6973. Galerstein, David H. "Would They or Wouldn't They," PP (NS), No. 9 (March 1991), 17-19.

The author shows that Sir Henry Baskerville could have married Beryl Garcia Baskerville, alias Stapleton. They both loved each other, and she suffered abuse for trying to save him from the Hound.

C6974. Goldfarb, Clifford. "Here's to Sir Henry, Our one Countryman," CH, 9, No. 4 (Summer 1986), 12.

A toast to "that most Canadian of all canonical characters, Sir Henry Baskerville."

C6975. Goslin, Vernon. "Did Baskerville Stay at `The Northumberland Hotel'?" SHJ, 18, No. 1 (Winter 1986) 7-8.

It is inconceivable that Mortimer would have dragged Sir Henry off to stay at The Northumberland Hotel ("the hotel-that-never-was"), a small tavern-cum-hotel at the end of a rather dingy turning off the Strand.

C6976. Green, C. Maureen. "A Study of the Legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 31, No. 1 (March 1981), 40-43.

Frankland was actually a descendant of the yeoman, or franklin, who fathered the luckless maiden who died on the moor, hounded down by Sir Hugo Baskerville. This explains Frankland's interest in property rights around the Grimpen Mire. A respectable descendant of the Baskervilles was John, the type-designer.

Letter: BSJ, 31, No. 3 (September 1981), 178-179 (Alan D. Wilner).

C6977. Green, Richard Lancelyn. "Editorial," Bookdealer, No. 799 (June 4, 1987), 3.

Exposes the forgery of a dust jacket on a first English edition of Houn that was to be offered for sale at an auction house in London.

C6978. Green, Richard Lancelyn. The Hound of the Baskervilles Dust Jacket (1902). London: Privately Printed, Christmas 1981. 1 card.

"The dust-jacket has advertisements on the back cover for the four volume Souvenir Edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and on the flaps for Newnes' Thin Paper Editions and Recent Fiction."

C6979. Grimpen Mire Gazette. Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2 (February 1990), 1-30. illus.

Contents: The Baskerville Herald -- Editorial by Barton A. Eberman. -- Some Notes on Dartmoor. -- Dartmoor Prison, by Frank M. Balas. -- Cartoons, by H. T. Webster and Geo. M. -- Fair Play and Foul, by Robert E. Eckles. -- On the Hound, by Philip N. Zaferopulos. -- Baskerville Hall -- Beware of the Dog, an illustration by C. Arnold Johnson. -- Beryl Stapleton, an illustration by John J. Brousch. -- Beryl's Daydream, by Thomas J. Joyce. -- Mr. Frankland of Lafter Hall, by Michael H. Kean. -- Map of Dartmoor. -- A Challenge! Can You Locate Baskerville Hall? -- Jaws of the Hound, by Douglas R. Shanklin. -- For Sale -- One Owner -- Call H. Baskerville, an illustration by John J. Brousch. -- A Terpsichorean Celebration of the Flora and Fauna Found in the Great Bleak Expanses of Dartmoor, or The Grimpen Mire Waltz (To the tune of Tom Leher's immortal "Weiner Schnitzel Waltz"), by Wayne Siatt. -- Peanuts: "The Hound of the Beaglevilles" comic strip, by Charles M. Schulz.

C6980. Haining, Peter. "The Hell Hound," The Hell Hound and Other True Mysteries, [by] Peter Haining. Illustrated by Philip Emms. [London]: Fontana Paperbacks, [1980]. p. 11-19.

"An Armada Original."

An account of stories based on "the hound from hell," including Stapleton's hound. With a cover illustration of the Hound by Terry Riley.

C6981. Harrington, Hugh T. "Stapleton's Solution," SHJ, 21, No. 2 (Summer 1993), 50-51.

This essay discusses the solution to the problem of how Jack Stapleton would inherit the Baskerville estate should he succeed in killing Sir Henry. The solution presented is reasonable and based on strong Canonical evidence.

C6982. Haugen, David. "The Hound of the Baskervilles: Two Villains?" BCA (December 1984), 15-16.

The mastermind behind Stapleton's plan was Moriarty.

C6983. Hayter, Brian. "The Hound Goes to School (and the Students Like It)," CH, 6, No. 4 (Summer 1983), 17-18.

Houn is one of the optional books studied by 8th grade Ontario students.

C6984. Henderson, Bill. "Reprints/Reprints: The Hound of the Baskervilles," Paperback Quarterly, 5, No. 3 (Fall 1982), 36-43.

A discussion of paperback editions of Houn, with photographs of twelve covers.

C6985. Hirayama, Yuichi. "The Hound Commentary in Japan," SIB, 3 (August 1993), 15-22.

Summaries and evaluations of Japanese articles and books on Houn.

C6986. Hollenbeck, Robert. "The Moors of Cornwall and Devon, England," DCC, 20, No. 2 (May 1984), 2-3.

A brief description and history of the moors, noting that Cornwall and Devon have a fondness for diabolical animals, particularly phantom dogs known as "Whist Hounds," whose melancholy baying is said to render a journey along Abbotts Way across Dartmoor at night a daunting experience. It was possibly from tales of these demon dogs that Doyle derived the theme for Houn.

C6987. Holly, Raymond L. "Scotland and Scotophobia," CHJ, 4, No. 7 (July 1982), 3-4.

There may be a thread of a connection between Col. Mortimer and Dr. Simson in Brentwood about 1880 ("The Open Door," by Mrs. Oliphant) and Sir Henry Baskerville, around Brent Tor and Brent, in 1888.

C6988. Holly, Raymond L. "The Times of Dr. Mortimer," CHJ, 1, No. 6 (June 1979), 2-3.

A chronology of important years in the life of Dr. James Mortimer, with a comment on the lack of information about Mrs. Mortimer.

See also DB5932.

C6989. Hollyer, Cameron. "To the Best of the Brutes," CH, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1989), 24-25.

"So let's lift up our boots / To the best of the brutes / And join in a toast / To the Baskerville ghost ... "

C6990. Holroyd, James Edward. "The Shaggiest Dog," SHJ, 17, No. 3 (Winter 1985), 90-91. (Into the Bran Tub, pt. 2)

First published in The Manchester Guardian, December 13, 1951.

See also DA2482 and DB1049.

C6991. Howlett, Anthony D. Some Observations on the Dartmoor of Sherlock Holmes. June 1979. 14 p.

A guide produced for members of the Society who went on the summer excursion to Dartmoor.

Review: SHJ, 14, No. 2 (Winter 1979), 65 (Nicholas Utechin).

C6992. Hunt, A. Godfrey. "An Identification of the Northumberland Hotel," SHJ, 18, No. 1 (Winter 1986), 8-9.

A Paget drawing depicting Holmes, Watson and Sir Henry on the landing of a staircase within the hotel is of the Whitehall Place entrance to the Metropole Hotel, identified as the hotel used by Sir Henry.

C6993. Hunt, A. Godfrey. "A Note on Holmes's Use of the Map in the Dartmoor Case," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 3 (1987), 37-38.

A consideration of the contemporary Ordnance Survey map of Dartmoor as seen by Holmes in 1888.

C6994. Hunt, A. Godfrey. "The Origin of the Baskerville Family in Devon," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 2 (1987), 40-42.

The origins of the Baskerville family are traced back to Norman times. There is reference to the origin of the family wealth and its involvement at Bosworth Field in 1485.

C6995. Hunt, A. Godfrey. "Reflections on the Dating of The Hound of the Baskervilles," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 4 (1988), 56-61.

The Houn is dated 1888 -- from Tuesday, September 25 to Saturday, October 20. Included in the article is a diary of the adventure on a day-to-day basis.

C6996. Hunt, A. Godfrey. "Some Notes on the Wicked Hugo and His Descendants," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 1 (1986), 33-37.

The family tree of the Devon Baskervilles is investigated from Hugo to Sir Henry. The legend is deduced to have been written some 81 years after Hugo's death by the Hound.

C6997. Hunt, A. Godfrey. "A Supplementary Note Upon the Naming of the Devon Baskervilles," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 3 (1987), 34-36.

The Baskerville family is further investigated back to 1058 AD, with proposals as to the forenames of the descendants and their dates.

C6998. Hunter, Ian R. J. "A New Perspective on The Hound of the Baskervilles," WF, 3, No. 4 (Autumn 1986), 1-4.

After attributing the authorship of Houn to both Doyle and Fletcher Robinson, who should be the main author, Hunter analyzes the build-up of suspense, and the differences that this technique of narration and character development have with other Canonical examples.

C6999. Jaffe, Jacqueline. "The Return of Holmes," SHR, 2, No. 1 (1988), 11-14, 39-41.

"The combination of the gothic and the detective story, the different perspectives used to tell the story and the closeness of the companionship between Holmes and Watson all add up to one of the most satisfying of the Holmes stories."

C7000. James, P. D. "More Than a Puzzle and Its Solution," Daily Telegraph [London] (September 3, 1988). illus.

Houn is selected as one of the six best detective stories. "Sherlock Holmes remains the epitome of the Great Detective, combining as he does a dominant intellect with bizarre personal eccentricity and the heroic virtues of triumphant individualism. It is unlikely that either the character or his most famous case will lose their hold on the human imagination or that future readers, enthraled by this atavistic study of violence and evil in the mists of Dartmoor, will read without a frisson of horror and often-quoted words: `Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.'"

C7001. Jones, Kelvin I. "Hound Tor," WW, 8, No. 1 (May 1985), 17.

"All morning by Hound Tor the wind chilled my hand. / Such a day called for our hats and our capes. / Here on the rocks time moves like sand, / Carving the years into sentinel shapes."

C7002. Jones, Kelvin I. "The Mythology of the Hound of the Baskervilles," WW, 5, No. 2 (September 1982), 17-27.

Contents: 1. The Origin of the Hound. -- 2. The Wild Hunt. -- 3. The Black Dog. -- 4. Hounds on Dartmoor. -- 5. The Hound as Curse. -- 6. Rival Claims.

An interesting discussion of the legends and myths surrounding the Hound -- Celtic in origin, according to Jones -- and of the story of Hugo Baskerville itself, being an 18th-century version of the "broken-taboo-and-its-consequences myth."

C7003. Jones, Kelvin I. The Mythology of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Rochester, Kent: Sir Hugo Books, 1986. [12] p.

Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies.

This short work concentrates on the Celtic origins of the story and traces Doyle's inception, revealing a wide mythological and supernatural basis for the narrative.

Review: SHJ, 18, No. 1 (Winter 1986), 26-27 (Nicholas Utechin).

C7004. Jones, Kelvin I. "Sir Charles," WW, 9, No. 1 (May 1986), 21.

"Between two high walls / He met his end, / Where the moor gate / And the path bend."

C7005. Jordan, Anne. "`In the beginning ... there was a hound,'" The Ritual, No. 9 (Spring 1992), 2-5.

"Robinson's story was the catalyst which led Doyle to mix the various legends known to him with his own personal experiences to create a new, original story which is pure Doyle. Whatever the source, all Sherlockians have to be grateful that Doyle's imagination was stimulated into writing what he himself described to his mother as `a real creeper.'"

C7006. Kawasaki, Tamotsu. "The Hound of the Baskervilles and Archaeology," SNSHC, 2, No. 1 (May 4, 1991), 44-54.

Text in Japanese.

"It is well known that Conan Doyle mastered many sciences and was interested in history, but not well known that he was also interested in archaeology. Because The Hound of the Baskervilles is the story that includes most archaeological things in the Canon, the author tries to show the relationship of archaeology and Houn."

C7007. Kean, Michael H. "In Search of the Baskervilles," BSJ, 32, No. 4 (December 1982), 232-233. (Letters to Baker Street)

An account of Kean's visit to Dartmoor National Park and to Baskerville Hall, now called Clyro Court. The author wonders why Doyle asked the former owners of Baskerville Hall for permission to use their name when he purportedly borrowed the name from Fletcher Robinson's coachman-chauffeur, Harry M. Baskerville.

C7008. Kean, Michael H. "Once Moor with Feeling," The Sherlockian, 1, No. 1 (1986) 38-49.

This article suggests areas requiring further research in Houn. It categorizes the areas according to questions dealing with the date of the case, the identification of The Times, the sources of the characters' names, the identity of Hugo Baskerville, the identification of place names, the location of Hound Tor, the location of Baskerville Hall, the distances travelled, archeological inaccuracies, zoological references, horticultural references, and breed of the hound.

C7009. Keefauver, Brad. The Annotated John Clayton from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Annotations by Brad Keefauver [Morton, Ill.: Privately printed, n.d.] 8 p.

Excerpt from Houn, twenty-two annotations, and a map of John Clayton's ride.

C7010. Keefauver, Brad. "Toward Finer Chronology and Other Sherlockian Explorations," WW, 11, No. 3 (January 1987), 5-10.

Upon discovering nine missing minutes in Houn, the writer speculates on just what dialogue between Holmes and Mortimer filled those minutes, reaching conclusions on the criminal career of Rodger Baskerville.

C7011. Lai, Rick. "Alias Vandeleur," WW, 9, No. 1 (May 1986), 16-17.

Rodger Baskerville the younger chose the alias of Vandeleur because of his admiration for Jack Vandeleur, the dangerous soldier of fortune from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Rajah's Diamond." Vandeleur had been a close friend of Rodger's father.

C7012. Lauterbach, Edward. "Double Vision," BSJ, 32, No. 3 (September 1982), 152.

A poem in six stanzas based on Houn and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

"Superimposed, the two forms gleamed / obscurely in the dark: / Ghost Hound! Ghost ship! Holmes trembled at / That eerie spectral bark!"

C7013. Lehman, David. "A Sleuth's Hall of Fame," Newsweek, 105 (April 22, 1985), 64.

----------. ----------, FPN, No. 2 (September 1985), 12.

The author lists his ten favorite crime novels of the 20th century. The first novel is Houn.

C7014. Liebman, Arthur. "A Round for the Hound," BSJ, 30, No. 1 (March 1980), 59-60.

"To Sherlock Holmes, he is the hound / So come my friends, let's drink a round / To the King of Canines. None ranks higher / Than the dusky denizen of Grimpen Mire."

C7015. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Conan Doyle's `The Hound of the Baskervilles,'" WW, 2, No. 2 (September 1979), 8-11.

Reprinted from The Bookman, May 1902 (DB1O57).

C7016. McClure, Michael W. "Myth Conceptions Regarding The Hound of the Baskervilles," DCC, 2, No. 2 (April 1989), 4-7.

----------. ----------, SNOB, Nr. 4 (February 1990), 17-20.

An examination of the origin of the Hound legend and Fletcher Robinson's influence upon Doyle to incorporate it into his novel. The mysterious deaths of Robinson and James Montgomery, BSI, are also linked to this mystery.

C7017. McClure, Michael W. "The Game's A-Foot!" DC, 5, No. 1

(January 1992), 11.

Nine panels representing a visual walk through Houn, each to be identified by the characters involved, location and activity.

The panels were correctly identified by William Ballew, whose answers appear in DC, 5, No. 2 (April 1992), 2-3.

C7018. McNabb, Janice. The Curious Incident of the Hound on Dartmoor. [Foreword by Donald A. Redmond.] Bootmakers of Toronto, 1984. v, 35 p. (Occasional Papers, No. 1)

"A reconsideration of the origins of The Hound of the Baskervilles." (Subtitle)

Limited to 442 copies, numbered 1a to 221b and 1b to 221b.

Reviews: BSM, No. 38 (Summer 1984), 34-38 (Jon L. Lellenberg); No. 39 (Autumn 1984), 17; SHJ, 17, No. 1 (Winter 1984), 19-20 (Nicholas Utechin); WW, 7, No. 2 (September 1984), 30-31 (Brad Keefauver).

C7019. Morley, Frank. Literary Britain. New York: Harper & Row, [1980]. 510 p.

----------. ----------. London: Hutchinson Pub. Group, [1980]. 510 p.

"A reader's guide to its writers and landmarks," by the youngest brother of Christopher Morley, with comments on Houn (p. 159, 208-209).

C7020. Naughton, Tom. "Technique in the Novel Raises Some Questions," CH, 4, No. 3 (Spring 1981), 5-7.

Examines and criticizes Watson's use of the indirect narrative technique to modify his usual method of first-person narrative and then concludes that the author of Houn must be Sherlock Holmes himself.

C7021. Nunn, Jessie Alford. Four Complete Adventure Novels. New York: Globe Book Co., [1964]. 43 p.

A teacher's guide to these novels that include Houn.

C7022. O'Brien, Thomas F., and James F. O'Brien. "The Holmes-Baskerville Connection," BSJ, 35, No. 4 (December 1985), 219-221.

Upon his arrival in London, Henry Baskerville is already aware of Holmes and his deductive prowess. How is that possible in 1889? This article provides the answer. The eminent American chemist Charles Baskerville did much of his research on the oil shales of Canada. Thus, the Holmes-Baskerville connection is Charles Baskerville. He is acquainted with Holmes through their shared love of chemistry. He is acquainted with Henry through their shared name -- or are they relatives?

C7023. Picking, August. "Seize the Day," The New York Times (August 24, 1986), IV, 20.

In response to Workman's cassette tape, Ten Classics in Ten Minutes, Picking produces a whole library in a minute. Among the books is Houn: "Dog scares heir, heir hires Holmes, detective meets dog, heir spared, Watson tells all, o'er moor and fen."

C7024. Pollock, Donald K., Jr. "The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Bibliography," BSM, No. 24 (Winter 1980), 18-29.

A bibliography of English language editions of Houn, limited to volumes in which it is the only story. There are 83 numbered items, including numerous variants.

C7025. Powell, John. "Wanted -- Moor Memorial to Sherlock Holmes," Western Morning News [Plymouth] (May 23, 1988). illus.

"Dartmoor artist, Douglas West, a self-confessed fanatic, tells John Powell why he believes the West should do more to promote its link with the legendary detective." With a photograph of the artist in Sherlockian attire "soaking up the atmosphere" on Dartmoor.

C7026. Preece, Roy. "The Hound," Tails of the Giant Rats: Sherlockian Musings by The Giant Rats of Massillon. Edited by Hugh T. Harrington and Roy K. Preece, Jr. Massillon, OH: The Village Bookshelf, 1990. p. 30-33.

A poetic rendition of Houn in eighteen stanzas.

C7027. Purves, Shirley, ed. Hound and Horse: A Dartmoor Commonplace Book. [Illustrations by Roger Matthews, Jean Upton, and Sydney Paget.] The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1992. vii, 72 p. illus.

"The Handbook of the Dartmoor Expedition of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 19th June-21st June, 1992."

Contents: Preface, by Shirley Purves. -- Map of Bovey Tracey and Environs (5th edition OS.). -- Bertram Fletcher Robinson: An Old and Valued Friend: The Adventure of the Two Collaborators, by Richard Lancelyn Green. -- The Curse of the Cabells: The Legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, by Anthony Howlett. -- An Echo of the Mutiny, by Geoffrey S. Stavert. -- "We found ourselves at the Northumberland Hotel," by Catherine Cooke. -- "You have lost one of your boots, you say?" by Roger Matthews. -- Diversions from Dartmoor; or, Random Teasers on The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Colin Prestige. -- Sherlockismus, by Freddy Bryan-Brown. -- The Cabell Legend and The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Susan Cabell Djabri. -- Fog, by Douglas Warren. -- The Railways of Dartmoor in the Days of Sherlock Holmes, by B.J.D. Walsh. -- Radical Rethinks on Baskervillean Problems -- I, by Bernard Davies. -- A Butler's Lot Is Not a Happy One, by Jeffrey Thrift. -- Laura Lyons, by Dorothyanne Evans. -- Geological Jottings, by Douglas Warren. -- Mortimer: His Medicine, His Mind, and His Marriage, by Auberon Redfearn. -- M. Bertillon, by Percy Metcalfe. -- Consider the Hound, by Shirley Purves. -- Sidelights on the Habits of Moorland Ponies, by Clare Taylor. -- It Can't Be Quite a Dead Dog; There's Still More Life to Be Wrung Out of It: A Discourse upon Marksmanship in The Hound, by Stephen Farrell. -- Name of a Dog, by Geoffrey S. Stavert. -- "`Come, Watson, Come!' He Cried. `The Game Is Ecarté,'" by Stephen Farrell. -- Ecarté, by Derek Hinrich. -- Chronology -- A Theory, by Percy Metcalfe. -- Mr. Holmes, They Were the Film-Prints of a Gigantic Hound! by Roger Johnson. -- Map of Tavistock and Environs. -- "And the calculation is a simple one," by Wayne Swift. -- The Genealogy of Silver Blaze, by Wayne Swift. -- Locations on Dartmoor Related to Silver Blaze, by Wayne and Francine Swift. -- A Note on the Weather of Dartmoor, by Douglas Warren. -- Animals, by Freddy Bryan-Brown. -- Curry Powder, by Frank Allen. -- Recipe for Curried Mutton, by Dorothyanne Evans. -- Opium, by Frank Allen. -- The Curious Incident in the Night-time, or John Straker's Mysterious Nobbling Methods, by Cindy Stevens.

Review: SHJ, 21, No. 1 (Winter 1992), 28 (Nicholas Utechin).

C7028. Preece, Roy. "The Hound," Tails of the Giant Rats: Sherlockian Musings by The Giant Rats of Massillon. Edited by Hugh T. Harrington and Roy K. Preece, Jr. Massillon, Ohio: The Village Bookshelf, 1990. p. 30-33.

A poetic rendition of Houn in eighteen stanzas.

C7029. Randall, Warren. "At the Sound of the Hound," PP (NS), No. 12 (December 1991), 10-12.

"On the occasion of a gathering of epilogues."

A narrative epic of the Baskervilles in which each line rhymes. "At the stick Watson frowned. / Told Holmes, `You astound! / How much you expound / Before we shelf-downed / My book, leather-bound / Of M.D.'s renowned."

C7030. Redmond, Donald A. "The Original Mr. Meyers," CH, 3, No. 4 (Summer 1980), 1-2.

A search of the Toronto directories reveals that the first Mr. Meyers of Houn fame was Joseph Meier, a boot and shoe manufacturer. His son James carried on the trade. The article is followed by a verse in four stanzas entitled "The Bootmakers' Ode to Their Founder."

C7031. Redmond, Donald A. "Sherlockian Plotnotes: I. The Mire on the Moor," BSM, No. 54 (Summer 1988), 42-44.

Dartmoor ponies swallowed by the bog have a literary parallel in an 1893 "Tale of a Dartmoor Fog" in Chamber's Journal.

C7032. Redmond, Donald A. "The Verse of the Baskervilles," CH, 15, No. 1 (Autumn 1991), 21-22.

The letters of the alphabet are used to form this verse: "A is for Anderson, North Carolina, A name that for murders just couldn't be finer... Z is De Reszkes, who sang `Huguenots' -- Holmes, being eager, wanted Watson to go."

C7033. [Robinson, Fletcher.] "Addington Peace, of the `Yard,'" [Illustrated by F. Anderson]. The Penny Magazine, 35 (1907), 145-153.

"These clever stories, starting to-day, are by the author who collaborated with Sir A. Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles."

C7034. Rogers, Denise M. "The Ghost Dog and Other Aspects of Animal Folklore," CH, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1989), 12-16.

A commentary on the story of the spectral hound of Dartmoor and supernatural animal lore in other stories.

C7035. Rosier, Carol. "A Scottish Lineage for the Hound?" BSN, 5, No. 3 (Michaelmas Term 1988), 2-3; 7, No. 1 (Hilary Term 1990), 3-4.

"Some thoughts prompted by a consideration of the architecture of Baskerville Hall."

C7036. Ruyle, John. Baskerville Revisited: Further Reflections on the Hound. Berkeley: The Hangdog Press, 1990. 29 p.

Limited to 76 copies, of which 50 are numbered and 26 lettered A to Z, hardbound, and signed.

Twenty-one Canonical quotations, each followed by a verse in four lines, beginning with: "What was it? What, in heaven's name, was it? / Was that / a dog / in the fog / by the bog?"

C7037. Ruyle, John. Baskerville Visited: Reflections on the Hound. Berkeley: Grimpen Myers, 1990. 27 p.

Limited to 70 copies, of which 44 are numbered and 26 lettered A to Z, hardbound, and signed.

Twenty-one Canonical quotations, each followed by a verse in four lines, beginning with: "A Huge Creature, Luminous, Ghostly, and Spectral / Dr. James Mortimer / Burst in all agog / With a singular tale / Of a large phantom dog."

C7038. St. Leger-Gordon, Ruth E. "Black Dogs and Other Livestock," The Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor. London: Robert Hale Ltd., [1965]. Chap. 4, p. 36-46.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Bell Pub. Co., [1972]. Chap. 4, p. 36-46.

----------. ----------, ----------. 2nd up-dated ed. Wakefield: E.P. Publishing, 1973. Chap. 4, p. 36-46.

Contains references to Houn, especially on page 39.

C7039. Shepherd, Walter. "Three Howlers," On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes: Some Old Problems Resolved. London: Arthur Barker Ltd., [1978]. p. 69-78. illus.

This shows how the naturalist Stapleton, in Houn, lost his head and talked natural history nonsense to Watson, and how Watson let Holmes down through carelessness in his account of Prio.

C7040. Simmons, Tom. "Dartmoor: Tracking the Baskerville Hound," Story and photography by Tom Simmons. The Dallas Morning News (March 13, 1994), 1G-2G.

A feature article with illustrations and a map for the prospective visitor. "All who leave their footprints on the moor will feel its imprint forever."

C7041. Simms, Bartlett Dale. "Devonshire Again," BCA, No. 7 (1992), 7-10.

Reprinted from BSJ, June 1971 (DA2505).

C7042. Simpson, Tom. "Dartmoor," WW, 2, No. 3 (January 1980), 12.

"White spectres of fog creep / across the moor / Glowing in the moonlit night ... "

C7043. Smith, Edward and Janellen. "Dartmoor National Park: A Break from the Bustle of London: Exploring Southwest England's Largest Area of Open Space," San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (October 2, 1988), T-8, T-9, T-18. illus.

An informative article about Dartmoor with mention of the fact that Sherlock Holmes once tracked down a murdering mastiff on the desolate moor.

C7044. Southworth, Bruce E. "Mortimer's Motivation," BSJ, 43, No. 1 (March 1993), 27-30.

The author discusses the reasons why, when Dr. Mortimer had a very promising career in London, he moved to the very isolated moors of Devonshire. The key to this relocation was the very noble Mrs. Mortimer, who put the safety of her husband's patients before her own happiness.

C7045. Speck, Gordon R. "The Hound and the Stalking-horse," WW, 9, No. 2 (September 1986), 18-20.

"Similarities between Mortimer and Moriarty are numerous, motives for their collaboration verge on mania, and evidence for Mortimer as a stalking-horse pervades the case."

C7046. "Splendid Old Place, This, Dear Watson...," Western Evening Herald [Plymouth] (September 23, 1989).

Brook Manor at Buckfastleigh in Devon, which is thought to have inspired Houn, is for sale for more than £600,000.

C7047. Strickland, Pat. "The Baskerville Cat," BSJ, 32, No. 4 (December 1982), 226.

"Oh, the Baskerville Cat / Lurks with ears lying flat. / She's the terror of dogs all around. / But most frightened of all / Is that mutt from the Hall, / That cowardly Baskerville Hound."

C7048. Thomas, Robin. "Price of Manor Rose £ 1/2m in Six Years," Western Morning News [Plymouth] (January 27, 1990). illus.

"Brook Manor: An impressive 17th century Manor House set in about 30 acres three miles from Buckfastleigh. It is thought to have been the inspiration for Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. With a lake, stream and fishing rights on the River Mardle, it is for sale, through Strutt and Parker, at offers around £600,000."

C7049. Thomas, William C. "The Baskerville/Vandeleur Family," PPP, 3, No. 1 (Spring 1983), 1-4.

A number of similarities exist between Houn (1902) and Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights (1882). These similarities consist of characters and surnames in the two stories, and center around the Baskerville family in the first novel and the Vandeleur in the second.

C7050. Thrift, Jeffrey. "Real Hound, Incident Was Basis of Popular Sherlock Holmes Tale," Tri-State Trader (October 6, 1979), 27.

"The original villain of the piece was not, of course, named Baskerville, but Richard Cabell, who did indeed perish after being badly savaged by a hound."

C7051. Umansky, Harlan L. "Fletcher, Doyle, Cabell, and The Hound," BSM, No. 40 (Winter 1984), 39-40 (Letters to the Editors)

C7052. Vacante, Frank J. "The Mystery Surrounding the Hound," DH, 1, No. 4 (December 14, 1983), 8-10.

Contents: 1. The Position of Hound in the Canon. -- 2. The Inspiration. -- 3. Claims of Harry Baskerville.

C7053. Weller, Philip. The Dartmoor of "The Hound of the Baskervilles": A Practical Guide to the Sherlock Holmes Locations. [Fareham, Hampshire]: The Franco-Midland Hardware Company/Sherlock Publications, 1991. 54 p. illus. (Share Issue No. 3, April 1991).

Limited to 200 numbered copies.

"This monograph provides precise information on the locations of 68 real Dartmoor locations which have been claimed by various Holmesian and Sherlockian authors to be the originals of the locations detailed in The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Review: SHJ, 20, No. 3 (Winter 1991), 108 (Nicholas Utechin).

C7054. Weller, Philip. "Deposits in the Vault: Together Again on the Moor?" S&CG, No. 3 (1992), 20-23.

The author has "uncovered" a grave near Henry Baskerville's for James Mortimer in the graveyard of the parish church of St. Andrew in Ashburton. Includes photographs of the gravestone.

C7055. Weller, Philip, ed. The Hound: The Journal of The Baskerville Hounds. Vol. 1. 1992. 38 p. illus.

Contents: Introduction. -- The Birth of the Hound, by Philip Weller. -- The Cabell Legend: A Source for The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Susan Cabell Djabri. -- Paw Prints -- Number One, by Sirius. -- The Hound in Japan, by Hirayama Yuichi. -- Cunning Preparations, by Carl Hoskisson. -- Paw Prints -- Number Two, by Sirius. -- The Northumberland Hotel, by Andrew Butler. -- The Highest Expert, by Morris Riarty. -- Paw Prints -- Number Three, by Sirius. -- I Hear of Frankland Everywhere, by Frank Darlington. -- Whatever Happened to Stapleton? by Robert W. Hahn. -- Paw Prints -- Number Four, by Sirius. -- Those Miserable Ponies, by Alan Scarsdale. -- The Typewriter, by Jane Sayle. -- Paw Prints -- Number Five, by Sirius. -- Stapleton -- The Un-Natural Naturalist, by Philip Weller. -- Some Hound Scholarship from Japan, by Hirayama Yuichi. -- Paw Print -- Number Six, by Sirius. -- The Hound of the Baskervilles at Fault (An Open Letter to Dr. Watson), by Frank Sidgwick. -- Ode to the Hound, by Philip Weller.

C7056. Weller, Philip, ed. The Hound: The Journal of The Baskerville Hounds. Vol. 2. 1993. 30 p.

Contents: Introduction. -- If the Cap Fits ... Some Considerations of Sidney Paget and The Hound, by Philip Weller. -- A Humble MRCS: James Mortimer, Practitioner of Medicine, by Chris Wills-Wood. -- One of the Most Remarkable Passages Ever Penned, by Robert W. Hahn. -- Paw Prints Number One, by Sirius. -- A Place of Pure Amusement? The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, by Jane Weller. -- Arms and the Man from the Yard, by Frank Darlington. -- Dartmoor and the Great Rebellion, by Andrew Butler. -- Paw Prints Number Two, by Sirius. -- A Fundamental Question: And a Fundamentalist's Answer, by Morris Riarty. -- The Legend of the Baskervilles, by Peter White. -- Casting a Light on the Subject: Peat, by Brian R. Sutton. -- "The Northumberland Hotel," drawn by Maria Lockley.

Drawings by Maria Lockley, Sidney Paget, and Philip Weller.

C7057. Weller, Philip. "The Missing Page," DC, 5, No. 1 (January 1992), 3-5.

Speculates on the possible contents of the missing page from Watson's letters that he sent to Holmes from Baskerville Hall.

C7058. Weller, Philip. "News from The Man on the Moor," Beaten's (1991), 2.

An account of the "Duchy Hotel" on Dartmoor, where Doyle stayed while writing part of Houn.

C7059. Weller, Philip. "The Northumberland Hotel," Disjecta Memoranda I (1991), 1-4. illus.

Some considerations of the location of "The Northumberland Hotel," concluding that it was not "The Sherlock Holmes" pub site.

C7060. Weller, Philip. "Paw Prints, Nos. 1-6," The Hound, 1 (1992), 14, 19, 24, 28, 32, 36.

Some considerations of problem areas in Houn, covering, in page numerical sequence: Lafter Hall, Mortimer's age, Beryl Stapleton's complexion, Mortimer's timings, Hound and Bitterne (sic), and The District Messenger.

C7061. Weller, Philip. "Stapleton the Un-natural Naturalist," The Hound, 1 (1992), 32-34.

An examination of the dubious standards of Stapleton's natural history.

C7062. Weller, Philip. "The Tomb of the Baskervilles," GT&RP, No. 3 (Fall 1991), 4.

A description of the sepulchre of Richard Cabell at Buckfastleigh, the tomb of the man who was the source of one of the many hound legends on Dartmoor.

C7063. West, Douglas E. "A Sherlock Holmes Mystery," Off Beat: The Newspaper for the Men and Women of the Surrey Constabulary, No. 93 (June 1980), 7.

A brief item about Fletcher Robinson's contribution to Houn.

C7064. Whitlam, Carol. "In Defence of the Hound, or It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog," MPapers, No. 5 (1992), 43-48.

An impressive defense, clearing the Hound ("the hound that did nothing in the night-time") of all charges!

C7065. Wills-Wood, Christopher. "Humour and The Hound," MPapers, No. 5 (1992), 49-54.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles encompasses mystery, detection and humour, shrouded in an atmosphere of gothic horror."

C7066. Woodis, Roger. "My Friend Holmes," Radio Times, 237 (October 2-8, 1982), 89.

"How well I recall -- could I ever forget? -- / That day when, shaken and ghastly-pale, / There came to our rooms in Baker Street / A man who unfolded a dreadful tale."

C7067. Yates, Donald. "A One-Minute Hound," CADS: Crime and Detective Stories [South Benfleet, Essex], 11 (July 1989), 12.

"To Baker Street hastens a doctor, / A fearful tale there to unfold; / The death of Sir Charles of sheer horror, / A hound sized to make blood run cold."

C7068. Zunic, Jim. "Origins of the Hound I: Bertie and Max," ND (November 1982), 3-4.

There are three different versions of Doyle's dedication in Houn to Bertram Fletcher Robinson, a friend who first suggested the idea and plot for this story. And Pierre Nordon, in his biography Conan Doyle, claims that Max Pemberton had told Robinson the tale, and that Robinson then told Doyle. Even though Bertie and Max wrote detective stories that are long forgotten, both men apparently helped to give us Houn and, if only for this reason, will be remembered by Sherlockians forever.

C7069. -- A2510. Brend, Gavin. "The Lady from Camberwell," BSJ, 2, No. 4 (October 1952), 198. (Baker Street Doggerel)

"O Mary Sutherland, tell me that / My eyes may feast upon your hat."

C7070. -- A2511. Smith, Edgar W. "God Rest You, Mary Sutherland!" Illustrious Client's Second Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1949.] p. 42-46.

----------. ----------, A Baker Street Quartette. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, [1950]. p. 13-20.

----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 13 (Summer 1967), 244-246.

A tale in verse.

C7071. -- A2512. Walsh, William J. "Upon the Identity of Bisulphate of Baryta," BSJ, 20, No. 2 (June 1970), 110-111.

The compound mentioned by Holmes is identified as chloride of barium.

C7072. -- B1075. Judd, Diane. "From a Sherlockian ABC" NCTM, 1, No. 3 (Summer 1975), 10.

"W is for Windibank, an Angel in disguise, / He fooled Mary Sutherland because of her eyes. / It was an old trick, / And though she felt sick, / Sherlock cut him down to size."

C7073. -- B1076. Squire, William. "Regarding the Identity of Bisulphate of Baryta," BSJ, 24, No. 1 (March 1974), 22, 30.

Points out errors made by William J. Walsh, and proposes that the compound could have been barium thiosulphate.

C7074. -- B1077. Tracy, Jack. "`St. Savior's, near King's Cross,'" BSJ, 27, No. 4 (December 1977), 213-218. illus.

The church is shown to have been a real one.

Winner of the 20th annual Morley-Montgomery Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1977.

C7075. Brody, Howard. "The Commonplace Murder of Mary Sutherland," BSM, No. 23 (Fall 1980), 1-3.

Holmes's failure to disclose the truth to Mary Sutherland may have tempted James Windibank to further mischief if, as is likely, Mary later set out in search of a husband again. The argument is advanced that this time the outcome for Mary was fatal, and that Holmes brought the villain to justice in the "commonplace little murder" alluded to in Nava.

C7076. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `A Case of Identity,'" NS, No. 9 (November 10, 1981), 3-5.

A summary of the author's research on Iden. The case is dated June 20, 1889.

C7077. Dandrew, Thomas A. "`A Case of Identity': A Literary Influence on `Peter Pan'?" NS, No. 9 (November 10, 1981), 7-9.

Similarities between Iden and Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan stories.

C7078. Dandrew, Thomas A. "French Allusions in `A Case of Identity,'" NS, No. 9 (November 10, 1981), 6-7.

The use of numerous French allusions in this tale may have been one way in which Doyle indirectly acknowledged his debt to Emile Gaboriau.

C7079. Enberg, Henry W. "A Case of Delusion," PP (NS), No. 12 (December 1991), 13-18.

----------. ----------, SMuse, 10, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 20-25.

Mary Sutherland saw through the evil scheme of her stepfather and mother and, with malice aforethought, added a few twists of her own. It fell to Holmes to not only solve the case, but also warn Mary not to go too far, while Watson merely identifies the case known to us all.

C7080. Johnson, Karen L. "The Myopic Maiden," CNFB, No. 1 (May 1983), 7-9.

Mary Sutherland suffered from severe myopia, her parents' knowledge of which permitted the carrying out of the story's dastardly scheme.

C7081. Kantoh, Shin-ichi. "A Fortune from Uncle Ned: `So what does her stepfather do to prevent it?'" SNSHC, 3, No. 1 (May 4, 1992), 70-87.

Text in Japanese.

C7082. Offord, Lenore Glen. "About Miss Mary Sutherland," SMuse, 6, No. 3 (Winter 1983), 18-21.

Questions how Holmes knew so unerringly that the marks on Miss Sutherland's purple plush sleeves were proof that she did a great deal of typing. The marks could also have been caused by pressure against some hard edge of furniture, e.g., a dining table, a dressing table, the front panel of a piano, or others, including, of course, a typewriter table. This may be one of those rare occasions when Holmes based the right conclusions on wrong or doubtful observations.

C7083. Oglesbee, Frank W. "A [lower] Case of Identity," CHJ, 7, No. 4 (April 1985), 2-3.

A whimsical "list of details of interest" about an otherwise "trite matter," with a note on the present-day vicinity of Tottenham Court Road.

C7084. Schwartz, Joel. "Holmes's Three Continents," PP (NS), No. 6 (June 1990), 27-28.

A possible solution to Watson's conundrum as to which are the three continents where Holmes has the position of "unofficial advisor and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled."

C7085. Siggins, Jerry. "You Dirty Dog, Hosmer," DB, 2 (May 4, 1982), 9.

"Shame on you, Mr. Angel, / You vile and miserable jay, / For cheating poor Miss Sutherland out of her wedding day."

C7086. Speck, Gordon R. "`A Case of Identity': A Case of Misdirection?" CHJ, 7, No. 10 (October 1985), 2-3.

"The details to which Holmes carefully attends are aural rather than visual, mind-prints rather than foot-prints."

C7087. Thomalen, Robert E. ["Windibank's Game"], PP, 3, No. 4 (1981), 14. (Poet's Page)

"To keep Mary's suitors away / Her stepdad became Hosmer `A'."

C7088. -- A2513. Andrew, Clifton R. "My Old Friend Charlie Peace," SHJ, 4, No. 4 (Spring 1960), 118-119.

The author comments briefly on the "violin virtuoso" before quoting from an article entitled "Burglars and Burgling" (The Strand Magazine [March 1894], 283-284) in which Charlie Peace, the "crowned king of all burglars, housebreakers and scoundrels," is discussed.

C7089. -- A2514. Austin, Bliss. "Three Footnotes to The Adventure of the Illustrious Client," Illustrious Client's Third Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1953.] p. 89-92.

C7090. -- A2515. Austin, Bliss. A Toast to the Confreres of the Illustrious Client. Westfield, N.J.: The Hydraulic Press, June 2, 1953. [8] p.

Limited to 60 copies.

An attribution of the origins of Col. Sir James Damery and General de Merville to the literary agent's subconscious memories of World War I battlefields. Illustrated with two maps.

C7091. -- A2516. Chorley, Jennifer. "`Goodly Volumes...,'" SHJ, 7, No. 4 (Spring 1966), 118-119.

Mrs. Chorley's research in the London Library has enabled her to identify Lomax, the Sub-Librarian, as a certain James A. S. Barrett and the volume chosen by Lomax for Watson as A History of Chinese Porcelain, by Cosmo Monkhouse. She also comments briefly on another "goodly volume": Winwood Reade's The Martyrdom of Man.

C7092. -- A2517. Fenton, Irving. "On Friendship," BSJ, 9, No. 1 (January 1959), 23-25.

A biographical sketch of the Master's old friend, Charlie Peace.

C7093. -- A2518. Fiedler, Judith. "In Memoriam--Baron Adelbert Gruner, 1860-1913," Illustrious Client's Second Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1949.] p. 79-82.

C7094. -- A2519. Fredman, L. E. "The Not-So-Illustrious Client," BSJ, 20, No. 4 (December 1970), 239-241.

Claims Violet de Merville was the illegitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales, adding another scandal to his long list, and reflecting the tension between Victorian myth and reality.

C7095. -- A2520. Rhode, Franklin. "`My Old Friend Charlie Peace,'" BSJ, 16, No. 2 (June 1966), 77-80.

"Exceedingly delightful it is to speculate on the thoughts of Mr. Sherlock Holmes when he uttered the above remark about the burglar and assassin of whom one of his mistresses said, `He was a demon beyond the power of a Shakespeare to paint.'"

C7096. -- A2521. [Rhode, Franklin.] "Some Sidelights on the Illustrious Client," by Langdale Pike [pseud.] DCC, 3, No. 1 (November 1966), 23. (The World of Sherlock Holmes)

A brief discussion of Albert Edward--Prince of Wales and, later, Edward VII.

C7097. -- A2522. Schutz, Robert H. "My Old Friend ... ?" BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 5 (1960), 286-288.

The author offers three descriptions from a catalog of Madame Tussaud's Exhibition at Baker Street Station to support his belief that Charlie Peace and Holmes were not actually friends.

C7098. -- A2524. Williamson, J. N. "The Adventure of the Vial Climax," Illustrious Client's Third Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1953.] p. 127-132.

A tale in verse.

C7099. -- A2523. Yuhasova, Helene. "Sonnet: To Violet de Merville," Illustrious Client's Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1948.] p. 54.

----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]

"I wonder what Adelbert really knew? / I wonder what his diary said of you?"

C7100. -- B1078. Austin, Bliss. "A Toast to the Confreres of the Illustrious Client," BSJ, 24, No. 2 (June 1974), 77-81, 104. illus.

First published by The Hydraulic Press, June 2, 1953 (DA2515).

Review: BSJ, 24, No. 3 (September 1974), 184 (Leslie Marshall).

C7101. -- B1079. De Camara, Mary Philip. "Outstanding Villain," BSJ, 25, No. 4 (December 1975), 211, 248.

Baron Adelbert Gruner is the author's choice of the worst villain in the Canon. This diabolical Don Juan, an excellent adversary, despicable enough to bring out the best in Holmes, eventually meets with poetic justice.

Winner of the Rosenblatt-Linsenmeyer Award for the best essay on "my favorite Sherlockian villain."

C7102. -- B1080. Weidner, Jean. "`Peace with Honour,'" ND (December 1976-January 1977), 5-8.

Traces the history of Charlie Peace's nefarious career.

C7103. Bengtsson, Hans-Uno. "`Det kräver varsamt handhavande,'" [Sweden: Privately Printed, January 1993.] 11 p. illus.

A New Year's gift for members of the Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark.

A monograph on the deep blue Ming-dynasty saucer mentioned in Illu.

C7104. Bond, Scott. "The `Dreadful' Adventures of Charlie Peace," A Touch of the Class. Edited by Michael H. Kean. Wilmette, Ill.: The Pondicherry Press, 1981. p. 7-15.

Reveals some surprising new insights into the relationship between Holmes and his "old friend" Charlies Peace, king of the Victorian cracksmen. Peace's career is reviewed as is his little-known role as protagonist in a lengthy series of "penny dreadful" magazines.

C7105. Cantor, Murray A. "Unintentional (?) Inconsistencies in `The Illustrious Client,"' BSM, No. 59 (Fall 1989), 34-37.

----------. ----------, PP (NS), No. 13 (March 1992) 27-30.

Examination of the tale reveals that Holmes does no detective work, commits psychological and tactical blunders, and generally acts in an almost amateurish fashion. Is Watson conveying an underlying message? Two possibilities are suggested: Watson may be irritated at Holmes's behavior, or he may be preparing us for Holmes's inevitable decline with age.

C7106. Curtis, Donald E. "The Illustrious Client: Loyal Friend and Chivalrous Gentleman," BSJ, 38, No. 3 (September 1988), 163-166.

The author examines Canonical clues and historical evidence to identify the Client as King Edward VII. Biographical data on the King is included, as well as the rationale behind Watson's claim that Illu was "the supreme moment in my friend's career."

C7107. Donnelson, Gar. "The Brougham in the Case," AC No. 3 (June 1986), 3; No. 4 (August 1986), 5. (Thesis No. 5)

With a rebuttal by Chris Redmond.

C7108. Higgins, W. W. "More from the American Encyclopedia," P&D, No. 164 (May 1992), 2, 7.

Discusses the possible origin of the name of Dr. Hill Barton, and includes an illustration of Watson and Baron Gruner.

C7109. Jones, Bob. "`It was from the Carlton Club,'" BSJ, 33, No. 1 (March 1983), 19-22.

Reflecting outstanding research, the author contributes the first Sherlockian piece on the Carlton Club. Established in 1832, the Carlton--famous as London's best-known and exclusive Conservative club -- figures in Illu. Jones's facts suggest that Illu is reminiscent of a scandalous affair that involved Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.

C7110. Jones, Kelvin I. "A Talent for Crime," WW, 4, No. 3 (January 1982), 23-27.

A detailed account of the lives and careers of Henry Wainwright and Charles Peace and their connection with Holmes.

C7111. Keefauver, Brad A. "Sherlock Holmes and the Secretly Dead: A Near Fatal Case of Close Mindedness," BSC, 4, No. 5 (September-October 1984), 5-8.

There is a vampire in Case Book, and not in Suss. Although Holmes never knew it, his "flat-footed upon the ground" stance, in one instance, very nearly cost him his life. Baron Adelbert Gruner is identified as the vampire.

C7112. Kelly, Norman. "Sotheby's & Christie's: Fact or Fiction," WW, 4, No. 2 (September 1981), 28-29.

The author relates his successful attempts to find out if the present Sotheby's and Christie's are the same two auction houses referred to in Illu.

C7113. MacDonald, Brian R. "Baron Adelbert Gruner: Supreme Villain," SP, 2, No. 1 (October 1979), 11-12.

First-place winner in The Reigate Squires' Most Nefarious Villain of the Canon contest.

C7114. O'Malley, Jerome F. "Sex and Sin in Sherlock Holmes," Calabash, No. 2 (September 1982), 34-39.

Illu is a disappointing story. Irrational, emotional, and religious elements surface that undermine the expected pattern of a Sherlockian story. Holmes is given paranormal powers; he becomes emotionally involved in the case so the reader's trust in his judgments is undermined. Anti-Catholic bias is also present and the outcome of the story involves wanton cruelty justified by smug, religious attitudes.

C7115. Pollack, Dorothy Belle. "Miss Kitty Winter," SMuse, 11, No. 4 (Spring 1993), inside front cover.

"My life was once happy and gay long ago, / When I thought that the Baron was my faithful beau."

C7116. Purcell, J. M. "An Illustrious Ballad," WW, 4, No. 2 (September 1981), 12.

"A devilish sinner was Adelbert Gruner, / With well-funded women his prey."

C7117. Ravin, James G. "Wainwright Was No Mean Artist," BSJ, 37, No. 1 (March 1987), 37-40. illus.

A biography of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1852), a poisoner and art critic whom Holmes mentioned in Illu as an example of a great criminal with a complex mind, but spelled his name without the e.

C7118. Reed, Linda J. "A Private Matter," WW, 9. No. 1 (May 1986), 18-20.

Holmes either consciously or unconsciously aided and abetted Kitty Winter in her plans to bring down the private revenge on the man who ruined her life. She had the motive; he had the means.

C7119. Roden, Christopher. "Vices and Virtuosos," MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 17-20.

A biographical sketch of Holmes's "old friend" Charles Peace, who, like Holmes, was a "violin virtuoso." Holmes knew Peace while he was in London during 1877-1878. Peace inspired the young Holmes in the art of disguises, taught him his safe-cracking and burglary skills, and also encouraged him to invest in a Stradivarius.

C7120. Speck, Gordon R. "Seasonal Transfiguration in `The Illustrious Client'" AG, 3, No. 1 (June 1987), 3.

The names "Gruner" and "Winter" are metaphors of seasons in Illu and underscore the basic conflict and foreshadow the inevitable consequences.

C7121. Walwyn, Brett. "The Truth About Gruner," CH, 8, No. 3 (Spring 1985), 3-4.

Examines "the so-called accident in the Splügen Pass" and the background of Baron Adelbert Gruner.

C7122. Webb, Keith E. "Baron Grunner Receives an Answer," SIB, 3 (August 1993), 6-7.

Answers Baron Grunner's question to Watson: "I would ask you what do you know of the Emperor Shomu and how do you associate him with the Shoso-in near Nara?"

C7123. -- A2525. Clark, Benjamin. "Holmes on the Range," BSJ, 3, No. 2 (April 1953), 91-97.

An analysis of the Master's illogical and bizarre conduct of this case.

C7124. -- A2526. Cumings, Thayer. "A Check on Lady Frances," BSJ, 5, No. 3 (July 1955), 133-138.

----------. ----------, Seven on Sherlock. [New York]: Privately Printed, 1968. p. 23-26.

A remarkable visit with the brother of Jules Vibart and Marie Devine, formerly personal maid to Lady Frances Carfax, during which the author sees a replica of the check on Silvester's Bank for fifty pounds.

C7125. -- A2527. Dorian, N. Currier. "Busy Bodies," BSJ, 4, No. 1 (January 1954), 38-40.

A tale in verse.

C7126. -- A2528. Kaser, Michael C. "The Dating of `Lady Frances Carfax,'" BSJ, 71 No. 2 (April 1957), 87-91.

The author shows that the exact dating of this tale cannot be more precisely narrowed than between 1896, the date selected by himself, and July 1902, the date assigned by Baring-Gould.

C7127. -- A2529. Kaser, Michael C. "A Solution to `Lady Frances Carfax,'" BSJ, 9, No. 2 (April 1959), 85-87.

A reexamination of the evidence has convinced Kaser that the adventure actually took place during the summer of 1898.

C7128. -- A2530. Lauterbach, C. E. "The Sky-Pilot," West by One and by One. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. p. 42-43.

"The Reverend Doctor Schlessinger [sic] / Was a mighty man of God."

C7129. -- A2531. [Rhode, Franklin.] "A Very Large Clock," by Langdale Pike [pseud.] DCC, 4, No. 2 (February 1968), 2. (The World of Sherlock Holmes)

A commentary on Big Ben and Watson's reference to it in this story.

C7130. -- B1081. Downes, Quentin. "Why Did He Call Her `Carfax'?" Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology. Edited and annotated by Michael Harrison. Indianapolis/ New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1976]. p. 87-93.

The Literary Agent did not have the Oxford crossroads named "Carfax," or even the "Carfax" in the center of the Sussex town of Horsham in mind when he chose the name "Carfax," but instead the distressing case of Frances, Lady Gunning -- born Frances Rose Spencer -- who received twelve months at hard labor for forgery.

C7131. -- B1082. Farmer, Philip José. "The Two Lord Ruftons," BSJ, 21, No. 4 (December 1971), 221-223.

Lord Rufton was the grandson of Lord Rufton of the Brigadier Gerard story, "How He Triumphed in England" (Adventures of Gerard). Also, the fictional name "Carfax" was derived from an actual family's coat-of-arms.

C7132. -- B1083. Groves, Derham. "The Reason Behind the Reasoning," SHJ, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 67. (Wigmore Street Postbag)

Analyzes Holmes's Turkish bath deduction.

C7133. Dandrew, Thomas A. "Did Watson Obfuscate in `Lady Frances Carfax'?" NS, No. 29 (October 3, 1992), 27-28.

"Examples of Watson's typically Victorian suppression, misstatement, or understatement of the facts in order to avoid overt sexual references."

C7134. Hinckley, Jane. "To Lady Frances Carfax," PP (NS), No. 15 (September 1992), 4.

"When the Lady departed the scene, / Watson felt it the fault of Phil Green."

C7135. McClure, Michael W. "Who Was That Lady?" S&CG, No. 2 (1991), 6-8.

Reviews the various theories on the real identity of Lady Frances Carfax, and provides a chronological list of the dramatizations.

C7136. Shreffler, Philip A. "Where Have I Seen That `Lady' Before?" WW, 10, No. 3 (January 1988), 16-17.

"This Canonical tale, like many another in the Sherlockian Canon, resounds with echoes of other adventures."

C7137. Speck, Gordon R. "Lady Frances and the Camberwell Connection," WW, 10, No . 2 (September 1987), 15-17.

Points of tangency between Lady and the untold "Camberwell Poisoning Case" suggest that Holy Peters is the culprit in both cases and explains uncertainties in Lady.

C7138. Thomalen, Robert E. ["The Green-Watson Bout"], PP, 1, No. 1 (May 1978), 6.

"Philip Green loved a woman of charm / This nearly caused Watson great harm."

C7139. -- A2532. Cox, J. Randolph. "Thwarting at the Channel," BSJ, 15, No. 4 (December 1965), 208-212.

A comparison between this tale and The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan.

C7140. -- A2533. Donegall, Lord. "`His Last Bow,'" The New Strand, 1, No. 10 (September 1962), 1162-1164. (Baker Street and Beyond, No. 10)

Contents: Holmes' War Service. -- Great Passages. -- The Authorship.

C7141. -- A2534. George, Isaac S. "His Last Bow, or The Final Final Problem," Illustrious Client's Third Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1953.] p. 152-154.

A tale in verse.

C7142. -- A2535. Jaffee, Irving L. "Sherlock Holmes Calling," Double-Action Detective and Mystery Stories, No. 11 (July 1958), 82-86.

----------. ----------, Elementary My Dear Watson. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Theo. Gaus' Sons, [1965]. p. 47-51.

Primarily an excursion into the Master's activities at the time of his war service in 1914.

C7143. -- A2536. Rosenberger, Edgar S. "`There's an East Wind Coming, Watson,'" BSJ, 17, No. 2 (June 1967), 67-69.

A tale in verse.

C7144. -- A2537. Sellars, Crighton. "Altamont," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 1 (January 1948), 59.

"Working for England and German disgrace, / Flaunted his subterfuge right in their face, / Called himself ALTAMONT--little they guessed / Why Holmes picked that name from among all the rest."

C7145. -- A2538. Smith, Edgar W. "The Adventure of the Veiled Author," BSJ [OS], 1, No. 2 (April 1946), 129-135.

----------. ----------, Baker Street and Beyond: Together with Some Trifling Monographs. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1957. [unpaged]

After eliminating both Watson and the literary agent as possible authors of "His Last Bow," Mr. Smith concludes that Mycroft was the veiled author of this tale.

C7146. -- A2539. Van Liere, Edward J. "The Story I Like Best," BSJ, 3, No. 1 (January 1953), 39-42.

----------. "The Sherlock Holmes Story I Like Best," Medical and Other Essays. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966. p. 152-155.

"The most satisfying of all the tales is His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes.... The plot is simple; it is historical; it is interesting and entertaining; it has suspense; it is plausible; it ends happily and on a high note."

C7147. -- A2540. Wigglesworth, Belden. "The Road from Skibbareen," BSJ, 7, No. 4 (October 1957), 236-239.

"It was not to England that Sherlock Holmes went--it was to Russia; and the doom of Von Bork was sealed."

C7148. -- B1084. Bolinder, Jean. "Vad hände efter den 2 augusti 1914?" ["What Happened After the 2nd of August 1914?"], Jury, 4, Nr. 3 (1975), 32-35.

C7149. -- B1085. Clarkson, Steve. "`Sir Huxtable's' Sidelights on Last," HO, Spring Supplement (February 1972), 2, 4.

C7150. -- B1086. Curjel, Harald. "The Site of Von Bork's House," SHJ, 11, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 26-27. illus.

Evidence that the master spy lived in the Old Rectory in the village of Erwarton.

C7151. -- B1087. "Holmes Prophecy Recalled," The New York Times (February 17, 1940), 12.

A letter from "Thorneycroft Huxtable" in the wake of World War II, quoting the Master's final prophetic remark about "an east wind coming."

C7152. -- B1088. Nolan, James A., III. "He Brought Home the Bacon," HO Annual, No. 2 (1975), 15-16.

Speculates on Altamont's (Holmes's) visit to America.

C7153. -- B1089. Tracy, Jack. "The Second of August," HO Annual, No. 1 (1971), 3-11.

A lengthy and in-depth examination of the events in Last, including the political, military, and espionage conditions in England during 1910-1914; The Balkan question; German activities in England, Ireland, and the U.S. prior to World War I, the Prussian spy organization; as well as an inquiry into the career of Von Bork and the Canonicity of the adventure in light of recent research, concluding with some speculations as to its authorship.

C7154. Benton, John L. "Dr. Watson's Car," SM, 10, No. 4 (1986), 20-21.

----------. "Dr. Watson's Automobile," BSJ, 39, No. 2 (June 1989), 79-80.

The "little Ford" driven by Watson was no more than a generic term for a small light automobile, since the car was actually a far faster racing-bred Morgan three-wheeler.

C7155. Butler, Allen H. "The Airship as Holmes's `Warship of the Future,'" CH, 15, No. 2 (Winter 1991), 32-36. illus.

"Inductive reasoning favors the possibility that Holmes conceived of the airship as a lighter-than-air vehicle, well before such a device was a reality, and saw that it would be used as a weapon of war."

C7156. Butler, Allen H. "Automobiles in His Last Bow," BSJ, 38, No. 1 (March 1988), 28-31. illus.

The article evaluates the automobile-related descriptive parameters found in the story and presents four pictures of automobiles that are near-typical examples of the two described therein. Aided by the pictures and guided by the evaluations, it is possible to articulate a phantasm closely approximating what might have been the physical appearance of Watson's automobile and Baron Von Herling's.

C7157. Davis, Norman M. "The Adventure of the American Interlude," BSJ, 33, No. 1 (March 1983), 10-16.

Holmes stated in Last that he began building his "Mr. Altamont" identity in Chicago. Canonical evidence, official documents, and city directories reveal that Holmes lived in Chicago for about a year, beginning in August 1912. His day-to-day cover identity was "Joseph Holmes," an actor, living at 116 W. Erie Street. He used "Altamont" only long enough to establish it as his "real" name in the minds of his underworld associates.

C7158. Decarie, Graeme. "The Singular Case of His Last Bow," CH, 15, No. 3 (Spring 1992), 32-34.

Because the events described in this adventure are almost entirely fictitious, it must have been written by Holmes in order to help cover up Watson's death in 1916. "It is Holmes' private grief, to be shared by those familiar enough with the Master's records to take up the many clues he placed in the story ... Dr. Watson died courageously as he had lived -- in the service of his monarch."

C7159. Foss, T. Frederick. "The Farsighted Herr von Bork," BSJ, 30, No. 4 (December 1980), 220-222.

In "His Last Bow" Holmes finds himself up against the so-called famous German spy Von Bork, just prior to World War I. Actually, Von Bork shows himself to be a boastful, bumbling incompetent whom any country copper could have taken on with ease -- a waste of a man like Holmes being put on his track.

C7160. Hammer, David L. "Sherlock Holmes: Secret Agent," BSJ, 36, No. 4 (December 1986), 231-235.

After Last, Holmes was put to work inside Germany by the British secret service. "No wonder his obituary has not appeared in The Times or the Daily Telegraph ... one's search must be confined to provincial German newspapers for some obscure reference to the death of an elderly retired government functionary, probably at Lake Starnberg or the Bodensee!"

C7161. James, Geoffrey. "Sherlock Holmes at the Marne," BSJ, 38, No. 1 (March 1988), 25-28.

This article offers historical evidence suggesting that Holmes was responsible for gathering the intelligence that allowed the Allies to stop the advance of the German armies at the beginning of World War I.

C7162. Kastner, Jorg. "Kokain und Sachertorte: Sherlock Holmes in Wien," SNOB, Nr. 3 (November 1989), 14-19.

C7163. Keefauver, Brad. "The Origin of Altamont" WW, 5, No. 3 (January 1983), 5-7.

Holmes's involvement in the Dynamiters case of the 1880's can be seen as the inspiration for Altamont, his disguise in Last.

C7164. Longobardi, JoAnn M. "The Game Is Afoot Once More," BSJ, 33, No. 1 (March 1983), 34-36.

"That August night was filled with gloom as if it sensed impending doom / That fateful summer when the world seemed wakened from its dreams. / 'Twas then Von Bork, the German spy, with cunning plans had set his eye / On naval signals, battleships, and other evil schemes.

"He waited at the chosen time to meet his spy, his aid in crime; / Yes, Altamont had done his work for many years before. / He was, by birth, American, and figured high in Von Bork's plan / To bring all Europe to its knees and start a major war."

C7165. Pazderski, Noreen. "Why Baring-Gould Slighted Buffalo," CN (NS), 2, No. 4 (December 1979), 16.

The omission of the location of the famed Irish Secret society, mentioned in Last, in Baring-Gould's biography of Holmes may have been due to an error, a personal grudge against Buffalo, or an attempt to protect the city's good name.

C7166. Smith, David P. "A Re-examination of Sherlock Holmes at the Marne," BSJ, 38, No. 4 (December 1988), 206-208.

A refutation of the Holmes-Colonel Macdonogh thesis set forth by Geoffrey James. The author contends that Holmes, in the guise of Colonel Richard Hentsch, Chief of Intelligence of the Imperial German Army, was responsible for the Allied victory at the Battle of the Marne in 1914.

C7167. Speck, Gordon R. "`His Last Bow': The Sense of an Ending," CHJ, 5, No. 11 (November 1983), 2-3.

"Here in the flush of victory, lies the threatening shadow of an ending. ... `Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age.'"

C7168. Speck, Gordon R. "Spy and Counterspy," CHJ, 5, No. 9 (September 1983), 2-3.

Considers how effectively Holmes, as a counterspy, foiled Von Bork, Germany's master spy.

C7169. -- A2541. Hedgpeth, Joel W. "Re-Examination of The Adventure of the Lion's Mane," The Scientific Monthly, 60, No. 3 (March 1945), 227-232.

----------. ----------, BSJ [OS], 3, No. 3 (July 1948), 285-294.

A review of the pathology of jellyfish stings and a discussion of the case investigated by Holmes.

C7170. -- A2542. Van Liere, Edward J. "Sherlock Holmes and the Portuguese Man-of-War," West Virginia Medical Journal, 48 (January 1952), 10-12.

----------. ----------, A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes. New York: Vantage Press, [1959]. p. 35-40.

"Since it is generally believed that Cyanea capillata cannot cause the death of an individual, and since the symptoms described in The Adventure of the Lion's Mane were so grave, the coelenterate which Holmes had in mind probably was no other than Physalia, commonly known as the Portuguese man-of-war. Exposure to the tentacles of this creature is apt to produce a chain of alarming symptoms."

C7171. -- A2543. Wolff, Julian. "Remember the Mane?" BSJ [OS], 3, No. 4 (October 1948), 471-475.

An investigation into the bibliographical aspects of the adventure, including a quotation on the "scourge of the ocean, the VENOMOUS CYANAEA," from The New Illustrated Natural History, by John George Wood.

C7172. -- A2544. Zahl, Paul A. "Glass Menageries of the Sea," With illustrations from photographs by the author. The National Geographic Magazine, 107, No. 6 (June 1955), 797-822.

The opening pages of this article on Cyanea capillata and other jellyfish stem straight from "The Lion's Mane."

C7173. -- B1090. Alessandri, Tom. "`My Own Chronicler': The Ageing Holmes," BSJ, 28, No. 1 (March 1978), 43-44.

Lion is one of the few stories in the Canon that Holmes himself narrated. Many critics have cited its "prosy inanities," but actually its shortcomings result from Holmes paying tribute to his dear Boswell. At the time of writing, Holmes, the ageing genius, paid sentimental honor to Watson by imitating the good doctor's narrative style. The Master revealed imagination, emotion, and weakness, elements he eschewed in earlier life. He became the "embellished character" he constantly claimed Watson had invented.

C7174. -- B5939. Clark, Edward F., Jr. "Lines on The Lion's Mane," BSJ, 28, No. 4 (December 1978), 199-203.

A reevaluation of the tale, which concludes that it has been appraised at less than its true worth and which extends the bibliographical study by Julian Wolff, updates the marine biologists' view of the Cyanea as recorded by Joel W. Hedgpeth, and advances ten points in opposition to the claim of Nathan L. Bengis that Holmes was guilty of "befuddlement" in the case.

C7175. -- B1091. King, Daniel P. "`Out of Doors,'" NNCC, 3, No. 2 (1978), 4-5.

A review of the Rev. John George Wood's collection of essays on natural history entitled Out of Doors, 1874. This book helped Holmes solve Fitzroy McPherson's apparent murder.

C7176. -- B1092. Lauterbach, Edward. "Cyanea Capillata" BSJ, 22, No. 3 (September 1972), 140.

A tale in verse.

C7177. -- B1093. Walsh, William J. "Concerning the Remarkable Similitude of Characteristics Between Ian Murdoch, Esq., and Sir George R. Sitwell," SOS, 6, No. 1 (January 6, 1972), 7-9.

C7178. Aldrich, Frederick A. "The Great Jellyfish Which Killed Macpherson Lives Off Newfoundland," Gazette [Memorial University of Newfoundland] (May 13, 1977).

----------. ----------, CH, 4, No. 2 (Christmas 1980), 3-4.

C7179. Caplan, Richard M. "`The Lion's Mane,'" The American Journal of Dermatopathology," 5. No. 6 (December 1983), 577-579.

The author, a dermatologist, draws attention to details of the peculiar skin lesions in the Lion's Mane and the difficulty they caused Holmes. Watson might have been less puzzled and therefore was "conveniently" absent, obliging Holmes to relate this adventure himself. The reader thereby has access directly to some sentiments of Holmes that are otherwise known only after being refracted through Watson.

C7180. Hirayama, Yuichi, and Masako Mizuochi. "Another Solution to The Lion's Mane," NZI, 2, No. 1 (August 1992), 22-25.

C7181. Jaszczak, Leslie. "`The Lion 's Mane': Some Observations," CN (NS), 5, No. 1 (January-June 1982). 9-11.

C7182. Kluge, Mary Ann. "Combing the Lion's Mane," CHJ, 5, No. 7 (July 1983), 2-3.

An unusual examination of this adventure: there are indications that Watson, not Holmes, participated in it and wrote the story. Or, as an alternative, could Watson have been very much smarter than Holmes?

C7183. Marten, Michael. "Lion's Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)," Weird & Wonderful Wildlife, by Michael Marten, John May, [and] Rosemary Taylor. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [1983]. p. 220. illus.

----------. ----------, ----------. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., [1983]. p. 220. illus.

Published in hardcover and paperback editions.

C7184. Speck, Gordon R. "To Reconcile Opposites: The Lion's Mane," Q£$, 9, No. 2 (May 1988), 30-31.

In Watson's absence, Holmes writes Lion to give a textbook example of a major point of methodology and to assuage his vanity.

C7185. Upton, Jean. "The Lion's Mane: Launch of the Facsimile Edition," BSM, No. 72 (Winter 1992), 36-40. illus.

Holmesians met at the Sherlock Holmes Hotel on October 20, 1992 to celebrate the publication of the facsimile edition of Lion. The guest speaker was Colin Dexter.

C7186. -- A2545. Baring-Gould, William S. "`...It Is Undoubtedly Queer...,'" The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 2, chap. 75, p. 748-750.

A review of the literature on this tale.

C7187. -- A2546. Dickensheet, Dean W. and Shirley J. "A Remarkable Invention," BSJ, 14, No. 4 (December 1964), 208-215.

The authors deny that Holmes could have used or invented the Neophone long-playing disc as suggested by Herbert Kupferberg and propose instead that the Master used a Poulsen Telegraphone to record and play his violin rendition of Offenbach's Barcarolle.

C7188. -- A2547. Kupferberg, Herbert. "The Adventure of the Bodiless Virtuoso," High Fidelity, 8, No. 5 (May 1958), 34-35, 122-124.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 14, No. 4 (December 1964), 201-207.

An astonishing deduction that Holmes not only used but may have invented the Neophone long-playing record which deceived Count Negretto Sylvius and Sam Merton.

C7189. -- A2548. Montgomery, James. "Speculation in Diamonds," Three Trifling Monographs. [Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1952.] p. 16-21.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 1, No. 4 (December 1953), 30-36.

----------. ----------, The Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 35-43.

An analysis of Maza and The Crown Diamond confirms that the story is based on the play and not the other way around.

C7190. -- A2549. Newton, G. B. "Concerning the Authorship of `The Mazarin Stone,'" SHJ, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1959), 52-54.

An interesting speculation that Billy the page was the author of this tale. (For a divergent opinion, see Edgar Smith's letter on p. 107 of the same volume.)

C7191. -- A2550. R [Rhode], F [Franklin] W. "The Uncrowned Queen of Horror," by Langdale Pike. DCC, 5, No. 1 (October 1968), 2-3. (The World of Sherlock Holmes)

A brief paper on Madame Tussaud and her wax museum.

C7192. -- A2551. Shea, Glenn J. "An Analysis of `The Mazarin Stone,'" HO, 1, No. 4 (June 1971), 4-6.

C7193. -- A2552. Shreffler, Philip A. "The Problem of the Twelve Mazarin Stones," DCC, 6, No. 2 (March 1970), 2-3.

Evidence that the Mazarin stone was one of twelve diamonds owned by the Cardinal Mazarin, State Minister of France from 1642 to 1661.

C7194. -- B1094. Ball, John. "The Pastiche in the Canon," More Leaves from the Copper Beeches. Lititz, Pa.: Sutter House, 1976. p. 175-179.

It is widely recognized that Maza is seriously inferior in a number of respects to the other fifty-nine Canonical tales. Ball, sorrowfully but courageously, tries to prove that it is in fact only a pastiche. He identifies the author, and shows that the publication of Maza as an authentic Canonical case was the result of an honest mistake for which Watson is largely responsible.

C7195. -- B1095. Blau, Peter E. "In Memoriam: Muzaffar ad-Din," BSJ, 24, No. 3 (September 1974), 141-145. illus.

By using the description in the play The Crown Diamond (the first version of Maza), Blau is able to identify "the great yellow stone" as one of the crown jewels of Iran, owned by Muzaffar ad-Din, the Shah of Persia from 1896 to 1907. The Jewels, including the "Mazarin" stone, are now on display at the National Bank of Teheran.

Winner of the 17th annual Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1974.

C7196. -- B1096. Chiszar, David, Rozelia B. Smith, and Lorna Simonsen. "Another Perspective on The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone," BSJ, 26, No. 4 (December 1976), 213-216.

A quantitative-statistical analysis of Maza, Yell, and Devi lends support to the theory that Maza was derived from Doyle's one-act play, The Crown Diamond.

Review: BSJ, 27, No. 2 (June 1977), 105 (William J. Serow).

C7197. -- B1097. Dudley, W. E. "The Mazarin Stone and The Empty House," BSJ, 27, No. 4 (December 1977), 209-211.

Maza and Empt have much troubled Sherlockian scholars because similarities in the two adventures have led to speculation that Watson told the same story twice in order to enrich his purse. A careful comparison, however, shows that there were two separate and distinct tales. Once more Watson's integrity is found to be without blemish.

C7198. -- B1098. McGee, Tom. "But Why, Watson?" DCC, 13, No. 4 (September 1977), 3-4.

An inquiry into the inspiration for certain scandalous insinuations about the character of Sherlock Holmes.

C7199. -- B5940. Swift, Wayne B. "The Great Yellow Diamond," BSJ, 29, No. 1 (March 1979), 21-24.

The location of the diamond identified by Peter E. Blau as the Mazarin Stone is confirmed by a visit to the Iranian Crown Jewel exhibit. Blau's basis for this identification, however, is refuted. The author deduces that Holmes, while "passing through Persia," was hired to keep Moriarty from stealing the Crown Jewels. He substituted fake gems, leading Moriarty to dismiss the alleged loot as "A Mass O' Rhinestone." Doyle is exposed as a tool of the Moriarty organization.

C7200. Byerly, Ann. "The Case of the Second Door," CHJ, 2, No. 11 (November 1980), 2-5. illus.

"An explanation of the mysterious second door to Holmes' bedroom and a textual note on the origin of Maza."

C7201. Haines, Edward P. Now Hear This! or The Mazarin Stoned. [Philadelphia: Privately Produced, February 1979.] [5] p.

Pertinent reasons why this rag won't wash: (1) the impossible layout of 221b; (2) the visual impairment of the crooks; (3) the record players as they were in 1903; (4) acoustics -- a major factor which appears to have been overlooked by nearly everyone; and (5) how the play could have been brought off logically, without unwonted abuse of the Canon.

C7202. Lavazzi, Charles M. "Sherlock Holmes, High-Fidelity Pioneer, or The Advent of a Shure Thing," BSJ, 39, No. 1 (March 1989), 36-38.

This is mostly a tongue-in-cheek examination of Holmes's research on coal-tar derivatives during the Great Hiatus. The author has the effrontery to suggest that the Master invented the LP record and used it to baffle Count Negretto Sylvius. Historical and Canonical evidence is presented to support this inherently ludicrous proposition.

C7203. Moreau, Pat. "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone," BC, 9, No. 7 (October 1992), 7-9, 15-16.

Commentary on "the worst Sherlock Holmes story ever," with several noteworthy quotations, a synopsis, and a quiz.

C7204. Redmond, Donald A. "Where He Got a Name: The Man Lived in Canada," CH, 5, No. 1 (Autumn 1981), 2-3. illus.

Straubenzee, the maker of Count Negretto Sylvius's air-gun, is identified as Major-General Casimir Cartwright Van Straubenzee (1866-1956).

C7205. [Ruyle, John.] The Hangman Cometh: A Sherlockian Limerick, by "Douglas Norman." Berkeley: Nimble & Quick, 1983. [4] p.

"Limited to 125 copies printed January 1983 at the Pequod Press to mark the investiture of John Ruyle as `Baron Dowson' in the Baker Street Irregulars."

C7206. -- A2553. Prestige, Colin. "`Stand by Us for God's Sake,'" SHJ, 1, No. 4 (December 1953), 8-9.

An analysis of Godfrey Staunton's hieroglyphic message to Dr. Leslie Armstrong.

C7207. -- B1099. Brody, Howard. "Who Was Dr. Leslie Armstrong?" BSM, No. 8 (December 1976), 9-10.

Godfrey Staunton's friend is identified as the prominent Cambridge physician, Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925).

C7208. Axelrad, Arthur M. "The Three-Quarters Missing Impetuous Young Cyril Overton," DB, 2 (May 4, 1982), 7-8. illus.

In the quarter-witted "Cyril Overton," Watson wreaks parodic vengeance upon his impecunious Literary Agent through his enormous size, his unbounded enthusiasm for amateur sport, Paget's two illustrations (based on photographs of the Agent and a drawing by his father), and the anagrammatic name itself (I ["aye"], says Watson, it is RT CON OYLE; and with VR, Holmes signs his approval of the ridicule).

C7209. Berdan, Marshall S. "A Suggested Two-Thirds of The Missing Three-Quarter," BSJ, 38, No. 3 (September 1988), 151-155.

A rebuttal of sportswriter Red Smith's allegation that Holmes purposely delayed solving the mystery of Godfrey Stuanton's disappearance so that he could lay bets against Cambridge in the upcoming rugby match. An analysis of the passage of time in the narrative reveals that it was Watson, not Holmes who profited from the inside information delivered by manager Cyril Overstreet.

C7210. Redmond, Donald A. "Textual Variants in The Missing Three-Quarter," BSJ, 35, No. 1 (March 1985), 9-11.

The manuscript of this story, now in the British Library, reveals a number of changes introduced by Doyle in the final printed version, many of them of a substantive nature.

C7211. Risley, Randall. "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter: Rugby and a Date for the Adventure," CHJ, 3, No. 7 (July 1981), 2-3.

By reading the newspaper accounts of the games themselves in 1894, 1895, and 1896, Risley reaches the conclusion that the year of Miss is 1894, not 1896 as proposed by Baring-Gould in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes.

C7212. Risley, Randall. "Musings on Missing," CHJ, 11, No. 2 (February 1989), 2-3; "More Musings on Missing," CHJ, 11, No. 3 (March 1989), 2-3.

The first part of this article focuses more on the game of Rugby; the second part, on the story itself. "Having contributed nothing to the reader's understanding of `The Missing Three-Quarter,' let's call this a scoreless tie, change channels, and go to the refrigerator."

C7213. Speck, Gordon R. "`The Missing Three-Quarter': A. Conan Doyle Cameo?" CNFB, No. 8 (May 1986), 2-3.

Aspects of Doyle's life appear in descriptions of Dr. Leslie Armstrong's literary-medical situation and in Godfrey Staunton's ill wife and secret love.

See also T. S. Eliot

C7214. -- A2554. Anderson, Poul and Karen. "The Curious Behaviour of the Ritual in the Daytime," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 5 (1960), 304-311.

"The Canon leaves us ... with a Ritual made valueless by its ambiguity as to time, a setting sun which will not touch the horizon for two or more hours, an absurdly small manor, and sunlight somehow shining through stone walls." The editor explains that American editions omit a couplet.

C7215. -- A2555. Bengis, Nathan L. "`Rache' for Rachel," BSJ, 2, No. 3 (July 1952), 152-157.

A tale in verse.

C7216. -- A2556. Bengis, Nathan L. "What Was the Source? That Is the Question," A Curious Collection. Edited by William J. Walsh. [Suffern, N.Y.]: The Musgrave Ritualists Beta, 1971. p. 28-31.

The Musgrave Ritual may have been inspired by an account of the Apulian treasure story published in The Wonders of the Little World, or A General History of Man, by Nathaniel Wanley (London: T. Basset, 1678).

C7217. -- A2557. Bengis, Nathan L. "Whose Was It? An Examination into the Crowning Lapse of Sherlockian Scholarship," BSJ, 3, No. 2 (April 1953), 69-76.

The crown discovered at Hurlstone Manor was the St. Edward's Crown used at the coronations of English kings prior to the time of the Commonwealth.

C7218. -- A2558. Brend, Gavin. "The Black Boy's Visit to Hurlstone," BSJ, 3, No. 4 (October 1953), 217-224.

After refuting the reconstructions of Nathan Bengis and H. D. W. Sitwell, the author advances his own theory that "The Black Boy" (one of Prince Charles's nicknames) actually visited West Sussex to retrieve a cache of money.

C7219. -- A2559. Christ, Jay Finley. "Musgrave Mathematics," Illustrious Client's Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1948.] p. 14-19.

A study of Holmes's methods in solving the problems of the Musgrave Ritual.

C7220. -- A2560. [Dalton, Philip.] "The Musgrave Ritual Discussed," SHJ, 1, No. 3 (June 1953), 45-46.

A report on a discussion of this tale at the Sherlock Holmes Society's meeting of March 10, 1953.

C7221. -- A2561. Donegall, Lord. "No Real Treasure--Just the Butler's Body!" The New Strand, 1, No. 8 (July 1962), 938-940. (Baker Street and Beyond, No. 8)

----------. ----------, HO Annual, No. 1 (1971), 29-32.

A synopsis and discussion of the story.

C7222. -- A2562. Goslin, Vernon. "The Gormansboro' Ritual," SHJ, 9, No. 3 (Winter 1969), 85-86.

Similarities between "The Four-Leaved Shamrock" (retitled "The Gormansboro' Ritual" by Mr. Goslin), a drawing-room comedietta in three acts by C. J. Hamilton which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual (1887), and "The Musgrave Ritual" suggest that the literary agent may have recalled the play when he wrote his story.

C7223. -- A2563. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "Illicit Treasure Seekers: Another Literary Osmosis," SHJ, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1959), 72-73.

Stanley Weyman's "Sefton's Servant" and H. Rider Haggard's Colonel Quaritch, V.C. are compared with Musg.

C7224. -- A2564. Hardenbrook, Don. "Infinitely Stranger," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 1 (1956), 47-51.

While browsing in a Los Angeles antique shop, the author and Dean Dickensheet discover a hunting crop which they identify as the one Reginald Musgrave must have presented to the Master as a token of his gratitude. The date "1878" stamped on the crop is irrefutable proof that the adventure occurred during that year.

C7225. -- A2565. Merriam, Joseph E. "Holmes at Hurlstone, or The Royal Diadem Recovered," BSJ, 21, No. 3 (September 1971), 131.

A tale in verse.

C7226. -- A2566. Merrill, Edward A. "The Case of the Missing Calendar," BSJ, 21, No. 3 (September 1971), 132-139; [Addendum] 22, No. 1 (March 1972), 46-48. illus.

An extension of the debate on whether the cryptic clue in the Musgrave Ritual, "What was the Month? The sixth from the First," applies to July under the Gregorian Calendar or to October under the Old Style common in England during the first half of the 17th century. Less ambiguous statements in Holmes's narrative relative to such circumstances as: At what hour did Holmes arrive at Hurlstone? What did he find when he reached the Oak Tree? When did he enter the Old Door? and What did he see there? are analyzed with respect to the different conditions of the direction of the sun, and the hour in the afternoon when it has descended to an angle of 2 vertical to 3 horizontal, as prevail in each of the two months under consideration. The weight of the evidence establishes a strong probability for the summer month, but it is not confirmed by eliminating the impossible until it is shown that the conformation of the Manor House could not have appeared as Holmes described it in the autumn month.

C7227. -- A2567. Merrill, Edward A. "Holmes and Brunton: Civil Engineers," BSJ, 20, No. 1 (March 1970), 39-47; [Addendum] 20, No. 4 (December 1970), 243. illus.

An engineering analysis of the helioastrometric, trigonometric, and topographic problems of the Musgrave Ritual. Ambiguities which have concerned Sherlockian scholars in the past are clarified but the demonstration that, if a rod of 6 feet throws a shadow of 9 feet, an elm tree of 64 feet will not throw one of 96 feet, presents a new one not previously recognized. It is resolved by the deduction that both Holmes and Brunton, solving the riddle of the ritual with incredible precision, must have used more modern techniques than Holmes admitted in his narrative to Watson.

Winner of the 13th annual Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1970.

C7228. -- A2568. Montgomery, James. "A Canonical Toast to Rachel Howells," Shots from the Canon. [Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1953.] p. 23.

"So here's a toast to Rachel, / Torn with passion though she be, / Avenger to dishonored love-- / And lost virginity."

C7229. -- A2569. "Musgrave Ritual," BSJ, 8, No. 3 (July 1958), 183.

Translated into Greek by Dr. Raymond Hendrickson.

C7230. -- A2570. Prestige, Colin, and Guy Warrack "Oratio Recta Twice Removed," SHJ, 6, No. 2 (Spring 1963), 55-56.

An exchange of letters between these two eminent Sherlockians concerning Watson's use of inverted commas in relating what Richard Brunton, the butler at Hurlstone Manor, said to Reginald Musgrave, Musgrave later repeated to Holmes, and Holmes subsequently stated to Watson. A "comical" problem!

C7231. -- A2571. "Ritualia Musgraviensia," BSJ [OS], 4, No. 1 (January 1949), 114.

Copied from the original Latin by Morris Rosenblum in collaboration with Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable.

C7232. -- A2572. Simpson, A. Carson. "The Curious Matter of the Anonymous Latin Epitaph," BSJ, 11, No. 4 (December 1961), 235-237.

"Both Epitaph and Ritual are anonymous and undated, and both contain the same question, `Where was the sun?'"

C7233. -- A2573. Sitwell, H. D. W. "Some Notes on St. Edward's Crown and the Musgrave Ritual," BSJ, 3, No. 2 (April 1953), 77-82.

Ralph Musgrave was at first the right-hand man of Charles the Second in his wanderings and then became a close confidant of Prince Charles.

C7234. -- A2574. Utechin, Nicholas. "Hurlstone and the Ritual," BSJ, 21, No. 3 (September 1971), 140-142. illus.

An attempt to establish Hurlstone Hall's orientation, using the evidence of Musg and the directions in the Ritual itself. Eight possible positions for the L-shaped house are postulated: five are eliminated immediately, failing to fulfil the data's requirements. A sixth is unlikely; a seventh (Baring-Gould's choice) is possible. The author's choice ("ancient nucleus" running NS, new wing WE at southern end) fits the story's data, the Ritual's directions, and is aesthetically pleasing.

C7235. -- B1100. Bridgeman, Roger. "The Problem of the Musgrave Ritual," SHJ, 12, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 27-28.

Attempts to answer the questions: "What was the lay-out of the house and grounds at Hurlstone? What was the correct wording of the Ritual?"

Review: SHJ, 12, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1976), 112-113 (Earl of Powis).

C7236. -- B1101. Byerly, Ann and Christopher. "The Musgrave Ritual -- Solved," BSJ, 27, No. 2 (June 1977), 96-103. illus.

If the word "west" in the ritual is changed to "east," it is possible to fit a map of the emplacement of Hurlstone to the facts provided. Watson's handwriting is again at fault.

C7237. -- B1102. Curjel, Harald. "Death by Anoxia: A Forensic Review of Two Canonical Cases," BSJ, 28, No. 3 (September 1978), 152-156.

The forensic toxicology of two fatal cases is considered. Brunton the butler died in the tiny chamber under the cellars in the Hurlstone Manor. The atmosphere, stagnant for 240 years, could not sustain life.

In the room at The Myrtles in Beckenham (Gree), the chemistry was more complicated. Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and simple anoxia all contributed to the death of Paul Kratides and the near death of Mr. Melas.

C7238. -- B1103. Kennedy, Bruce. "`Whose Was It?' Some Remarkable Insights into the History of the Musgraves," BSJ, 26, No. 2 (June 1976), 79-80, 93.

Links Sir Ralph Musgrave with Sir Philip Musgrave (1607-1678) and hypothesizes that "what Holmes discovered by following the Ritual was not ... the Stuart crown, but something far more gruesome and which, even in the late 19th century, would have aroused the wrath of the British people: the severed head of Oliver Cromwell."

Review: BSJ, 27, No. 1 (March 1977), 46 (Harald Curjel).

C7239. -- B1104. Merrill, Edward A. "Hurlstone Revisited," BSJ, 24, No. 4 (December 1974), 221-231. illus.

A history of the Musgraves and their Manor House, from their establishment in Sussex in the 16th century to the events related by Holmes in the 19th. >From an interpretation of such clues as Holmes's language affords, using inferences as well as references, Hurlstone, with its additions, is reconstructed and the story of the family is correlated with British political, social, and architectural history. The hypotheses eliminate the impossible but invite discussion on the improbable. Includes five illustrations by the author.

C7240. -- B1105. "The Musgrave Ritual," SHJ, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 77-81.

Summary of a panel discussion, May 24, 1977, featuring Nicholas Utechin, Carol Gardiner, and Frederick D. Bryan-Brown.

C7241. -- B5941. [Pollock, Donald K., Jr.] "Musgrave Musings," by E. Butler Richards, [pseud.] BSM, No. 17 (March 1979), 16-19.

Musg is shown to have been fabricated by Holmes for Watson's benefit. The plot structure was drawn from Scan, an adventure that obviously had a great impact on Holmes. The date Holmes told Watson the story of Musg is considered.

C7242. -- B1106. Schutz, R. H. The Musgrave Ritual. Morgantown, W. Va.: The Plane Tree Press, [1973]. [4] p.

"Five hundred copies of this paper were printed by R. H. Schutz for NAPA and The Scion of the Four."

C7243. -- B5942. Tusing, Holly. "Richard Brunton," SP, 1, No. 2 (January 1979), 12-14.

The butler of Hurlstone tells his story.

C7244. -- B1107. Webster, Donald A. "Who Shall Have It? He Who Will Come," HO, 4, No. 2 (June 1974), 3-4.

There are several difficulties to Holmes's solution of this case. The best way around it is to suppose that instead of concealing the Crown of England, the ritual was a diversion to distract Cromwell's men from the real treasure that was hidden elsewhere and long since retrieved when the detective came to Hurlstone.

C7245. -- B1108. Wilson, Gary. "The Anomaly of The Musgrave Ritual" BSJ, 25, No. 3 (September 1975), 148-153.

The dangling threads and unresolved puzzles in this case reveal that it was one of the Master's early failures. "To underscore the theme of failure Conan Doyle makes heavy use of the literary device known as re infecta or the unfulfilled matter."

Review: BSJ, 26, No. 1 (March 1976), 41-42 (Leslie Marshall).

C7246. Accardo, Pasquale. "Mystery Could Be VerSH," The Parallelogram, 2, No. 8 (February 1993), 66.

"But the true Hurlstone crime / In this Musgrave rhyme / Is that the butler did it."

C7247. Accardo, Pasquale. "A Sherlockian Fairy Tale," The Parallelogram, 2, No. 8 (February 1993), 61-65.

"The `Musgrave Ritual' provides the origin myth for Holmes's deliberately considered aversion to women -- a fairy tale explication for the monastic vow of chastity and for the detective profession's secular equivalent of clerical celibacy."

C7248. Albany, Ray. "`Any Truth is Better Than Indefinite Doubt' (Yell)," DH, 2, Nos. 1-2 (September 2, 1984), 6-8.

Watson's narrative of this tale brings to light many interesting aspects of Holmes's life: the Persian slipper, his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very center of his wooden mantelpiece, his untidiness, and his loathsome habit of indoor pistol practice. But these are superficial things compared to the problem of dating, Watson's use of names, Holmes's mention of past cases, the meaning and origin of the Ritual, and the treasure itself. It is obviously a three-pipe problem.

C7249. Attardi, Christian. "Ritualia Musgraviensia," MPapers, No. 1 (1988), 7.

The Musgrave Ritual in Latin.

C7250. Bailey, Hope. "Did Sherlock Visit Nyetimber?" Sussex Life, 15, No. 7 (July 1979), 26-27. illus.

"It is very probable that Doyle may have met William Holland Ballett Fletcher, who restored Barton Manor in 1902."

C7251. Burr, Howard E. "Stuart Brows Encircled or Tudor Loins Embraced?" WW, 7, No. 1 (May 1984), 5-16.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 35, No. 3 (September 1985), 161-169. (Something a Little Choice ... )

The contents of a linen bag, dredged by Reginald Musgrave from the mere of Hurlstone Manor, have intrigued Sherlockian scholars for years. The present study accepts Holmes's brilliant deduction of the regal status of the contents, but takes exception -- and suggests correction -- to the Royal House, symbolic function, and anatomical location ascribed by Holmes to those contents. The reader will decide whether the Musgrave waters, finally, have been clarified, or, once again, inexorably roiled.

C7252. Cleary, James C. The Butler of Hurlstone: A Comparison of Sources. [New Rochelle, N.Y.: Privately Produced, 1986.] 16 p.

"The journal of Richard Brunton on his course through life, June 22, 1855 -- September 25, 1879."

A revision of "Some Pages from the Journal of Richard Brunton."

C7253. Cleary, James C. "Some Pages from the Journal of Richard Brunton on His Course Through Life," Presented by Jim Cleary. PP, 4, No. 3 (September 1982), 3-12.

A peak into the life of Brunton, the butler at Hurlstone.

C7254. Cochran, William R. "`Ah, There You Lay Your Finger Upon the One Point...,'" WW, 8, No. 3 (January 1986), 14-17.

----------. [Revised] "The Musgrave Ritual: `A Curious Collection,'" DC, 2, No. 3 (July 1989), 6-11.

The author asks the question: Was Moriarty the tutor of Reginald Musgrave and not Holmes's tutor during the summer of 1872? The professor could have easily removed the stones of any value and financed his criminal empire. When Brunton became suspicious and tried to blackmail the professor, he suffered an agonizing death.

This is an expansion of the following article.

C7255. Cochran, William R. "The Summer of 1872: A Turning Point," CHJ, 1, No. 10 (October 1979), 2-6.

Reginald Musgrave's tutor is identified as Professor James Moriarty. In an early criminal activity he stole the more valuable gems from the royal crown.

C7256. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `The Musgrave Ritual,'" NS, No. 23 (July 16, 1985), 12-15.

A summary of the author's research on Musg. The adventure occurred on October 10, 1879.

C7257. Eckrich, Joseph J. "The Musgrave Ritual," The Parallelogram, 2, No. 8 (February 1993), 60-61.

An introduction to the Higher Criticism by the Commissionaire of PCofSTL.

C7258. Enberg, Henry W. "The Loyal Backstairs Bunch," PP (NS), No. 10 (June 1991), 7-8.

There are a number of stories in which "loyalty" is an issue. The obvious are: Murray, Watson or (arf, arf) Toby. But what of the more perverse, such as loyalty toward Milverton?

C7259. Ewen, Greg, and Brad Keefauver. "Shooting Holes in More Than the Wall: New Thoughts on the `V.R.,'" WW, 11, No. 1 (May 1988), 26-29.

Robert Keith Leavitt was wrong in asserting that there was no center-fire revolver cartridge available in the 19th century smaller than a .31 calibre. "Small calibre cartridges of the Boxer (center-fire) variety were available in Holmes's day, and such smaller bullets were the only possible ammo Holmes could have used to accomplish what Dr. Watson tells us he did."

C7260. Farrell, John. "Sir Reginald Musgrave," SM, 10, No. 1 (1984), 5-9.

A Meddler interview; reported by Farrell.

Review: SM, 10, No. 3 (1985), 17-18 (Donna Crosland).

C7261. Haines, Edward P. Desire Under the Elm, or A Shadow of Doubt, by The Old Conductor. [Philadelphia: Unpublished typescript, 1988.] 4 p.

C7262. Harville, Jack. "The Musgrave Ritual: An Alternate Solution," BSJ, 30, No. 4 (December 1980), 201-203.

Holmes finds Richard Brunton guilty in this tale. The true culprit, however, is Reginald Musgrave. The detective deliberately led suspicion away from Musgrave in order that the ancient crown of Charles I would not be dragged through the muck of a scandal. Later he extracted payment from Musgrave: title to the land in Sussex where he retired to keep bees.

C7263. Hoffman, Leslie. "England's Crown Jewels," BC, 8, No. 4 (May 1991), 11; 8, No. 5 (August 1991), 9; 8, No. 6 (September 1991), 3-4.

A history and description of "the ancient crowns of the Kings of England."

C7264. Holly, Raymond and Joy. "Hurlstone Revisited," CHJ, 4, No. 5 (May 1982), 5.

An adaptation of the Musgrave Ritual.

C7265. Johnson, C. Arnold. "The Curious Incident of the Third Letter," MM, No. 15 (October 1979), 4-6.

Various theories are offered as to why Holmes only shot the initials "V.R." into the wall when, after the additional title of Empress of India was conferred upon Queen Victoria in 1876, she used the initials "V.R. & I."

Replies: MM, No. 17 (February 1980), 20-21 (Burke Whitaker; Peter Deschamps).

C7266. Keefauver, Brad. "The Swan Song (and Dance) of Butler Brunton," WW, 7, No. 2 (September 1984), 5-9.

A close look at the Musgrave Ritual reveals that it was not originally a guide to treasure, but Sir Ralph Musgrave's favorite dance tune, its words guiding revellers in an old English version of the square dance.

C7267. Lawfield, Matthew. "The Musgrave Ritual," SHJ 15, No. 2 (Summer 1981), 40-43.

Rachel Howells poisoned Brunton. Musgrave, jealous of Brunton, arranged a cover-up, with a chain of faked evidence connecting Brunton with the Ritual. Holmes, under his influence, is guided uncritically through. The corpse was moved after death, which was probably due to laudanum. Laudanum also caused the curious incident of the nurse in the night-time.

C7268. Merrill, Edward A. "For the Sake of the Trust": Sherlock Holmes and the Musgrave Ritual. Illustrated. Bloomington, Ind.: Gaslight Publications, 1982. 92 p. (Sherlock Holmes Monograph Series)

This monograph is based on three articles published in BSJ (DA2567, DA2566, and DB1104). Much of the language of these papers is repeated in the book, but it has been rearranged to present a discussion of the Musgrave Ritual affair as a whole rather than in three fragments. The text also has been rearranged to include an analysis of theories advanced by others, and Merrill acknowledges that he has learned so much from a study of their views that he has modified some of his own ideas. The result is that he has produced an engineering treatise of high calibre in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Reviews: APD (February 1983), 4-5 (Albert E. Gechter); BSM, No. 29 (Spring 1982), 39-41 (Bliss Austin); Gaslight Publications, Catalogue No. 1 (Winter-Spring 1981), 13 (Jack Tracy); San Francisco Chronicle/Review (July 11, 1982), 8 (Howard Lachtman); SHJ, 16, No. 1 (Winter 1982), 20-21 (Nicholas Utechin).

C7269. "Ritualia Musgraviensia," The Parallelogram, 2, No. 8 (February 1993), 65-66.

The ritual in Latin and English.

C7270. Shepherd, Walter. "The Musgrave Muddle," On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes: Some Old Problems Resolved. London: Arthur Barker Ltd., [1978]. p. 79-93. illus.

Some new suggestions are made regarding the ambiguities in Watson's account of Musg. Problems in the Ritual are clarified by the restoration of some missing lines.

C7271. Siatt, Wayne. The Musgrave Ritual Revealed: Solving the Riddle of the Celtic Cypher. Chicago: Unpublished MS, 1988. 33 p.

"Being an analysis of The Musgrave Ritual in terms of its inconsistencies and a determination of the true events referred to by clues contained therein."

C7272. Singleton, Paul. "The Strategy of Slobs: Some Notes on `The Musgrave Ritual,'" PP (NS) (December 1988), 11.

"Rather than tidy up, Holmes dangles `untold' bait in front of Watson ... but how long did the tin trunk [remain] in the middle of the floor [?]"

C7273. Stavert, Geoffrey. "The Musgraves of Cumbria," The Ritual, No. 5 (Spring 1990), 12-13.

A brief history of one of the oldest and most important families in the county of Westmorland.

C7274. Swift, Francine M. "Grave Musings," A Touch of the Class. Edited by Michael H. Kean. Wilmette, Ill.: The Pondicherry Press, 1981. p. 75-83.

The author discusses what she views are some major problems with the Ritual: determining the height of the trees, the position of the sun, the identity of the crown, the correct length of pace, and the authenticity of the document. The article ends in a more positive vein by noting that the real charm of the tale lies in a few paragraphs which have prompted more devotion and research than the Ritual.

C7275. Tooley, Martin W. "Was Musgrave One of the Three Men?" SHJ, 14, No. 2 (Winter 1979), 41-43.

An examination of the inconsistencies in Musg and in Watson's account of the case. It is proposed that Musgrave murdered his butler and devised the Ritual with the aim of persuading Holmes to reach a false conclusion.

C7276. Whitlam, Carol. Pacing The Musgrave Ritual. [West Yorkshire: The Northern Musgraves, October 1990.] [16] p. (A Musgrave Monograph, No. 1)

"The complexities of dating, and calculating the relative positions of oak, elm and house in `The Musgrave Ritual' have attracted much attention. This monograph attempts to provide a fresh look at old controversies by following the lines of the Ritual and using information given in the story."

C7277. Zunic, Jim. "Some Reflections on Indoor Target Practice," BSJ, 38, No. 3 (September 1988), 161.

This article suggests that Alexander Pushkin may have been the inspiration for the famous "V.R." in the wall at 221b by revealing that Holmes was not the first character in The Strand Magazine to engage in indoor target practice.