C7868. -- A2733. Baring-Gould, William S. "The Problem of the Speckled Band," BSJ, 15, No. 3 (September 1965), 167-173.

----------. "`It Is ... the Deadliest Snake in India,'" The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 1, chap. 18, p. 263-266.

A review of the literature on Dr. Roylott's messenger of death.

C7869. -- A2734. Bengis, Nathan L. "A Scandal in Baker Street," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 2 (April 1947), 145-157; 2, No. 3 (July 1947), 311-321.

Contents: 1. A Case of Mistaken Identity. -- 2. The Curious Affair of the First Stain.

"Being an exegesis upon the langue d'oyle of the apocryphal play entitled The Speckled Band as compared with the langue d'oc of the canonical story of the same name, with a consideration of a new angle on the private life of Dr. John H. Watson."

C7870. -- A2735. Boswell, Rolfe. "Dr. Roylott's Wily Fillip: With a Proem on Veneration of Vipers," [Illustrated by W. S. Hall]. BSJ [OS], 1, No. 3 (July 1946), 307-311.

C7871. -- A2736. Bryan-Brown, F. D. "Some Thoughts on `The Speckled Band,'" SHJ, 10, No. 3 (Winter 1971), 89-92.

Contents: The chronology of the story. -- A few notes on India in Roylott's time. -- The ages of the Dramatis Personas. -- A few problems about Grimesby Roylott. -- The strange story of Helen Stoner. -- The strange conduct of Sherlock Holmes.

C7872. -- A2737. Chorley, Jennifer. "An Amazing Epistle--Fact or Forgery?" BSJ, 15, No. 3 (September 1965), 165-166.

A remarkable discovery of a letter to Sherlock Holmes, dated June 1889, in which Helen Stoner Armitage confesses to a triple killing--her Mama, twin sister Julia, and stepfather Dr. Grimesby Roylott. If true, the Master was outwitted by a second woman!

C7873. -- A2738. Klauber, Lawrence M. "The Truth About the Speckled Band," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 2 (April 1948), 149-157.

The causative agent in the deaths of Julia Stoner and Dr. Roylott was not a snake, as reported by the fallible Watson, but a skink, a smooth-scaled lizard of the family Scincidae.

C7874. -- A2739. Lawson, Douglas. "The Speckled Band--What Is It?" BSJ, 4, No. 1 (January 1954), 12-20.

----------. ----------, The Third Cab. [Boston: The Speckled Band, 1960.] p. 5-11.

"The Speckled Band, which supposedly brought about the deaths of Julia Stoner and Dr. Grimesby Roylott, was truly a Tic Polonga or Russell's Viper."

C7875. -- A2740. Nash, Ogden. "Just Holmes and Me, and Mnemosyne, Makes Three," The New Yorker, 41, No. 9 (April 17, 1965), 42.

----------. ----------, There's Always Another Windmill. With Decorations by John Alcorn. Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Co. [1968]. p. 15-16.

"Well, whatever caused Holmes' error and Miss Stoner's overlooking it, / I have this reflection to cheer me ... / Great minds forget alike."

C7876. -- A2741. Rhode, Franklin. "`Palmer and Pritchard Were Among the Heads of Their Profession,'" BSJ, 17, No. 2 (June 1967), 7074; 18, No. 1 (March 1968), 39-43.

Contents: Pt. 1. William Palmer, the Sporting Surgeon of Rugeley. -- Pt. 2. Edward Pritchard, the Satyr of Sauchiehall Street.

C7877. -- A2742. Smith, Edgar W. "Saved by the Bell-Rope," A Baker Street Quartette. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, [1950]. p. 21-28.

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

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 13 (Summer 1967), 246-248.

A tale in verse.

C7878. -- A2743. "De Vergissing van Sherlock Holmes" ["Sherlock Holmes's Error"], Panorama [Amsterdam], Nr. 51 (December 12-18, 1970), 52-53. illus.

A detailed discussion of Carl Gans's discovery (Scientific American, June 1970) that a morass adder or Russell's viper is incapable of concertina movement and therefore could not have climbed the bell rope in Julia Stoner's bedroom. Only members of the species of constrictors or choke snakes could have done that, but they are not poisonous!

C7879. -- B1202. Cone, Edward T. "Three Ways of Reading a Detective Story -- or a Brahms Intermezzo," The Georgia Review, 31, No. 3 (Fall 1977), 554-574.

An analysis of Spec on the first, second, and third readings.

C7880. -- B1203. Deschamps, Peter. "Another Look to the Lady," PP, 1, No. 2 (July 1978), 42-45.

Helen Stoner was the first Mrs. Watson. It was not until after the wedding that Holmes came to realize that Helen, not Roylott, murdered Julia. She also murdered her father and perhaps even her mother. After informing Watson of these facts, the duo succeeded in killing Helen and hiding her body.

C7881. -- B1204. Edminston, Susan. "The Nine Most Devilish Murders," Esquire, 84, No. 2 (August 1975), 66, 136. illus.

Among those included are Spec and A Taste for Honey.

C7882. -- B1205. Foss, T. F., and J. M. Linsenmeyer. "Look to the Lady," BSJ, 27, No. 2 (June 1977), 79-85.

Describes what sort of world the unfortunate Mrs. Roylott must have lived in, surrounded by a mass of scandal-mongering memsahibs in Calcutta in the 1880's, together with a possible explanation of what may have happened at Stoke Moran the night Dr. Roylott got his just desserts.

C7883. -- B1206. Foster, R. W. "The Curious Incident of the Snake in the Night Time," More Leaves from the Copper Beeches. Lititz, Pa.: Sutter House, 1976. p. 59-62.

Examines the problem of the "dog whip" used to manipulate the snake and the complications involved in its use in conjunction with the safe.

C7884. -- B1207. Göller, Karl Heinz. "The Speckled Band," Die englische Kurzgeschichte. Herausgegeben von Karl Heinz Göller und Gerhard Hoffmann. Düsseldorf: August Bagel Verlag, [1973]. p. 70-79.

C7885. -- B1208. Lauterbach, Edward. "The Ghost of Julia Stoner," BSJ, 23, No. 4 (December 1973), 207.

"The ventilator that is not, / A bell-rope newly bought, / Beware the cunning, venomed plot / Of Doctor Roylott!"

C7886. -- B1209. Lebowitz, Mo. A Small Segment from "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [North Bellmore, N.Y.: The Antique Press, 1967.]

A handsomely printed and illustrated brochure with quotations from Spec and a commentary.

C7887. -- B1210. Lynch, James J., and Bertrand Evans. High School English Textbooks: A Critical Examination. Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., [1963]. xviii, 526 p.

"An Atlantic Monthly Press Book."

Two examples from Spec are used to illustrate how literary texts, unfortunately, are abbreviated and altered for easy comprehension by students (p. 42-43).

C7888. -- B1211. [Nabokov, Vladimir.] "Holmes Is Where the Heart Is, or Tooth-Tooth, Tootsie," by Vivian Darkbloom [pseud.] BSM, No. 6 (June 1976), 9-14.

"A somewhat revisionist analysis of The Adventure of the Speckled Band." (Subtitle)

C7889. -- B1212. Nevers, Kevin. "Considering the Speckled Band," NNCC, 1, No. 1 (1976), 2-3.

Dr. Grimesby Roylott's "Indian swamp adder" is identified as the Russel's Viper. Also considered are the problems of the snake's hearing and shape, and the rapidity of Julia Stoner's death.

C7890. -- B1213. Posnansky, Daniel. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes," The Fourth Cab. Boston: Stoke Moran Publishers, 1976. p. 35.

"A knock... a rap ... the step of Roylott's boot, / Brief fleeting thought of Devon's lonely bog, / Now hear! Come Watson, quick! The game's afoot!"

C7891. -- B1214. Swift, Wayne B. "On the Sinister Affair of the Darkbloom Paper," BSM, No. 8 (December 1976), 1-4.

A refutation of the theory set forth by "Vivian Darkbloom" (DB1211); namely, that the death of Dr. Roylott was a murder arranged by Holmes to clear the way for an illicit liaison with Helen Stoner. Roylott's death is shown to be, in fact, a murder-for-hire job by Moriarty that was published in a vain attempt to discredit the Master.

C7892. -- B1215. Waggoner, Larry. "The Final Solution," DCC, 14, No. 4 5 (October 1978), 3-6.

A positive identification of Roylott's deadly "pet" as the Indian banded krait supports the view that the rest of the recorded adventure is complete and authentic. "There is no duping of Watson, and no sinister plot by Holmes."

C7893. Allen, L. David. "Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Detective in Fiction, by L. David Allen; consulting editor, James L. Roberts. Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, [1978]. p. 30-34.

C7894. Aramata, Hiroshi."The Adventure of the Speckled Band," EQ:EQMM, No. 72 (November 1989), 19-21. (The Detective of Iconolog, No. 12)

Text in Japanese.

A study on the source of the swamp adder from the viewpoint of natural history.

Also contains: Holmes and Footprints, by Hirotaka Ueda. (EQ Sherlockiana)

C7895. Buddle, Judy. "The Remarkable Snake, VA, No. 1 (January 1991), 35-36.

----------. ----------, MSB, 14, No. 2 (Mid-Summer 1991), 3.

"'Tis a truly remarkable snake we discuss -- / A worm that's to science unknown. / 'Twas the Stoner twins' dreaded incubus / That came in the dark quite alone."

C7896. Chambers, Patrick T. "The Strangest Snake in the World," WW, 10, No. 3 (January 1988), 25-28.

A criticism of Holmes's theory of how Roylott "trained" a poisonous snake by the use of a whistle noise and milk. The article indicates that snakes are untrainable due to their low intelligence, are not capable of recognizing or obeying an owner, have little ear structure with which to hear a whistle noise, and that it is an untrue old wives' tale that snakes like to drink milk.

C7897. Cochran, William R. "Helen Stoner: Detective," CHJ, 12, No. 11 (November 1990), 2-3.

After reading Hugh T. Harrington's article in the November P&D concerning the detective work of Anna Coram (Gold), Cochran decided to re-examine the narrative of Spec and observe the actions of Helen Stoner. "The result was the discovery that she was a skilled detective, and that it is this skill, and not the actions of Dr. Roylott, that must have attracted Sherlock Holmes's attention and caused him to take the case. Dr. Roylott's antics only served to confirm Helen Stoner's conclusions."

C7898. Conger, Wally. "A One-Minute `Adventure of the Speckled Band,'" WW, 9, No. 2 (September 1986), 17.

"Watson's dragged out of bed / Helen Stoner's sibling's dead / Whistles heard in the night / Did the poor girl die of fright?"

C7899. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `The Adventure of the Speckled Band,'" NS, No. 14 (March 14, 1983), 10-12.

A brief summary of the author's research on Spec. The most probable date for the case is April 2, 1883.

C7900. Duval, James O. Some Researches Upon the Researches of The Adventure of the Speckled Band. [Penacook, N.H.: Unpublished typescript, 1992.] 11 p.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Spec, the author looks into the publishing history of this tale and the high popularity it has enjoyed through the years by both the reading public and the author. He also examines several inconsistencies in the story, some unearthed upon researching the adventure and some put forth as original.

C7901. Edwards, Owen Dudley. "The Speckled Band: Arthur Conan Doyle's Greatest Tragedy?" MPapers, No. 4 (1991), 38-53.

Illustration by Catherine Bates.

"The Speckled Band is a great short story of detective, mystery and horror content, but its greatest hold on its public lay in its hidden allusions, subconsciously recognised by readers, to one of the oldest and foulest evils among human relationships [incestuous rape]. In its strength of style and atmosphere, literary derivation and scientific elaboration, it gives itself the means to confront, necessarily obliquely, the realities behind male assertion of female possession. It reaches the heart of human darkness. It is Conan Doyle's answer to Wagner's tarnished Ring, another Speckled Band."

C7902. Harris, Bruce. "You Can Teach a Speckled Band New Tricks," BSJ, 33, No. 2 (June 1983), 95-96.

Laboratory experiments with snakes conducted by the psychologist Paul Kleinginna demonstrate how Roylott could have trained his snake to climb up the bell-rope.

C7903. Hockensmith, Steve. "Medieval Romantic Influences in The Speckled Band," SHR, 1, No. 2 (1987), 42-43, 58.

It is important to view Spec in the light of Doyle's other Sherlock Holmes stories. When compared closely, the differences make it clear that Doyle was making a deliberate departure from his standard style. His use of symbolic figures, exaggerated characterization, and a histrionic tone is evidence of his intention to update the ideas and ideals of Romantic myths to modern literature.

C7904. Hoffer, Phil. "Julia Stoner as the First `Woman,'" BSJ, 29, No. 2 (June 1979), 106-107.

Holmes's suspicious waiting all night in Helen Stoner's darkened room for Roylott's swamp adder as well as other inconsistencies in Spec are explained in the light of the Master's earlier involvement with Julia. Watson's Freudian clues lead the way.

C7905. Huff, Thomas A. "The Failing of Sherlock Holmes," 5th Annual Reptile Symposium on Captive Propagation & Husbandry, Oklahoma City Zoo, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 11-14, 1981. p. 11-14.

"`The Danger of Interbreeding Subspecies': A Panel Discussion."

C7906. Jenkins, William D. "Hunting Down The Speckled Band," BSJ, 41, No. 1 (March 1991), 37-38.

One of the most obscure short stories by Charles Dickens, "Hunted Down," may well have been the inspiration for Spec. There are many plot analogies between the two stories. The very name of the murderer in the Dickens story recalls a comment on fictional names made by Doyle.

C7907. Jones, Kelvin I. "A Very Old Mansion," WW, 6, No. 3 (January 1984), 11-15.

An examination of the origins of "Stoke Moran" and its possible contenders, together with some observations on the old South Western Railway and Holmes's excursions into the rural lanes of Surrey in the 1880's.

C7908. Lai, Rick. "Dr. Roylott's Correspondent," WW, 7, No. 2 (September 1984), 19-25.

The swamp adder of India is a sacred serpent bred secretly by the cult of Thuggee. Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu gained control of Thuggee in 1880 through his intimacy with Miss Warrender from Doyle's "Uncle Jeremy's Household." She had described the snake to Hugh Lawrence, who communicated this information to his Baker Street neighbour, Holmes. Together with a cheetah and an Abyssinian baboon, Fu Manchu dispatched the adder to his English correspondent, Dr. Roylott.

C7909. Lebowitz, Mo. The Adventure of the Speckled Band: A Small Segment from "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [North Bellmore, N.Y.]: The Antique Press, [n.d.] 2 folded sheets (11 x 11 in.) illus.

"This ornate report is published by The Antique Press & Mo Lebowitz, Prop., in the best interests of The Baker Street Irregulars and as a means of commemorating the Proprietor and his quixotic Holmesamania."

C7910. May, Charles E. "From Small Beginnings: Why Did Detective Fiction Make Its Debut in the Short Story Format?" The Armchair Detective, 20, No. 1 (Winter 1987), 77-81.

Includes a discussion of Spec -- a Paradigm of the classic detective story formula that has been widely imitated.

C7911. McClure, Michael W. "A Snaky Suspicion or a SPECtacular Coincidence," DC, 3, No. 1 (January 1990), 6-7.

The five-panel cartoon "A Snake Story" by René (The Strand Magazine, January 1892) is examined for its possible influence on Doyle's Spec.

C7912. Meyer, Charles A. "That Freudian Adventure at Stoke Moran: Sexual Symbolism in `The Speckled Band,'" NS, No. 29 (October 3, 1992), 21-25.

Spec is not only one of the best loved tales in the Canon, but it is also the most rife in sexual references. Phallic symbolism, poker, cigars, and the snake itself are a continuous Freudian thread running through the account. It is herein viewed as a chronicle of incestuous sexuality.

C7913. Moran, Joseph. "The Speckled Plumber," PP (NS), No. 3 (September 1989), 19-20.

A suggested method by which Roylott could achieve his aims without suffering his well-known fate, wherein he contrives to make Miss Stoner feel she is not worthy of Mr. Armitage and plots to have the blame placed on a man named Escott. The earlier tragedy of Julia is also cleared up.

Third prize winner in the 2nd Annual Crime Contest conducted by the 1st Bangalore Pioneers.

C7914. Mortimore, Roger. "Hiss!" BSN, 2, No. 1 (1985), 2-3.

The swamp adder is a cross between the green mamba and the puff adder and was bred specifically for this crime, combining the necessary climbing abilities of the mamba with the less dangerously vicious temper of the puff adder.

C7915. Needleman, Lionel. "Unravelling The Speckled Band," BSJ, 34, No. 3 (September 1984), 139-149.

In this article it is argued that Holmes misinterpreted the evidence in the case, and that Dr. Roylott was innocent of Julia Stoner's death and of attempting to kill Helen Stoner. A much more plausible explanation of the doctor's suspicious behavior, which is consistent with all the facts on which Holmes based his conclusions, is that Dr. Roylott was a voyeur who derived sexual gratification from spying on his stepdaughters through the `ventilator.'

C7916. Olding, Alan C. "An Alternative Conclusion for `The Speckled Band,'" PP (NS), No. 3 (September 1989), 13-14.

----------. ----------, NFTD, 11, No. 2 (June 1990), 1-2.

A suggested method by which Roylott could achieve his aims without suffering his well-known fate, wherein Miss Stoner is done in by the cheetah.

Winner of the first prize, the Sebastian Moran Order of the Black Ribbon, in the 2nd Annual Crime Contest conducted by the 1st Bangalore Pioneers.

C7917. Pasley, Robert S. "The Truth About Doctors' Commons," CH, 13, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 20-22.

A brief essay on Doctors' Commons, where Holmes examined the will of Helen Stoner's mother.

C7918. Peller, Rivkah. "Of the Drinking Habits of Snakes," VA, No. 1 (January 1991), 31-34.

"Doctor Roylott's Indian correspondent (or the original owner of the snake) could very well have been a Naga worshipper. All information regarding the care of the snake must have come from the correspondent, thus explaining the saucer of milk."

C7919. Randall, Warren. "The Adventure of the Wedding Banned," as set down by Col. Sebastian Moran (Ret.), Late of the Indian Army, as his personal Reminiscence of Dr. Grimesby Roylott and uncovered by Warren Randall. PP (NS), No. 3 (September 1989), 15-18.

A suggested method by which Roylott could achieve his aims without suffering his well-known fate, wherein he learns impersonation from his wine seller and woos Miss Stoner. The earlier tragedy of Julia is also cleared up.

Second prize winner in the 2nd Annual Crime Contest conducted by the 1st Bangalore Pioneers.

C7920. Randall, Warren. "Leapin' Lizards: An Irregular and Unnatural History of the Speckled Band," PP (NS), No. 3 (September 1989), 25-29.

Reports on an article from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. 109, p. 1-238) entitled "The Gila Monster and Its Allies," by Charles Bogert and Rafael Martin del Campo, in which the species is organized and a new genus, Sampoderma, is named. Citing Lawrence M. Klauber (DA2738), the authors offer proof that Sampoderma is the Speckled Band; with illustration on cover.

C7921. Redmond, Donald A. "Sherlockian Plotnotes: VIII. Vipera Lactivora Again," BSM, No. 60 (Winter 1989), 26-29.

Contemporary sources for the allegation that Roylott's snake drank milk are noted.

C7922. Reed, Linda J. "The Speckled Band(s): The Death of Julia Stoner," WW, 12, No. 1 (May 1989), 18-21.

Julia did not die from a snake bite but from pure nervous shock. If she had been in bed, she would have had to reach over the snake for matches and a candle. She sat up as Holmes did. The sight of the snake was enough to kill her. It was not an adder. On Roylott's second try, he used a new snake. And his faulty reasoning and carelessness were the result of some disease.

C7923. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jack D. Key. "`The Speckled Band': Poisonous Snakes and Evil Doctors," The Baker Street Dozen. Edited by Pj Doyle and E.W. McDiarmid. New York: Congdon & Weed, [1987]. p. 22-27.

An analysis and discussion of the nature and effects of snake venom, and a comparison of Roylott with other murderous physicians.

C7924. Scarlett, E. P. "The Medica Murderer," [Source and date unknown].

----------. ----------, BC, 5, No. 10 (January 1989).

A discussion of the murdering doctors, William Palmer (1824-1856) and Edward William Pritchard (1825-1865), mentioned by Holmes in Spec.

C7925. Shreffler, Philip A. "Classic Themes in `The Speckled Band,'" CNFB, No. 2 (November 1983), 3-5.

The story may be viewed from both a psychological point of view (both Freudian and Jungian) as well as from the standpoint of its being an archetypal fairy-tale.

C7926. Simpson, Tom. "The Speckled Band," by "Tom McMurdo." WW, 7, No. 1 (May 1984), 23.

"From the diary of Helen Stoner -- retrieved from the battered brass dispatch box of Scion VV341 by Tom Simpson."

"I see above me a speckled band, / Afloat up in the air. / I seek to cry out if I can, / For to move I do not dare."

C7927. Speck, Gordon R. "In Mitigation of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," Q£$ (November 1986), 60-62.

Evidence from two medical doctors, one of them Doyle, indicates that Roylott was epileptic and unable to control his behavior.

C7928. Stephenson, John. "From the Bottom of the Bag," MB (NS), No. 3 (Summer 1992), 1, 4.

Explains how Julia Stoner and Roylott died so quickly from the bite of Russell's Viper when its victims usually take at least 15 minutes to die.

C7929. Thomalen, Robert E. ["The Speckled Band"], PP, 1, No. 4 (September 1978), 12. (Poet's Page)

"When the Stoner girls wanted to wed, / Their stepfather wanted them dead."

C7930. Walwyn, Brett. "The Snake at the Heart," CH, 14, No. 3 (Spring 1991), 20-21.

"The speckled band of the serpent has numerous mythological and literary associations that stand behind it and help to give the story a curious power. These connotations in western culture are easily summarized, but have implications for the story that may be less obvious."

C7931. -- A2744. Goslin, Vernon. "The Singular Stockbroker's Clerk," SHJ, 8, No. 3 (Winter 1967), 90-93.

An examination of this singular case shows that Holmes, not Hall Pycroft, was the "confounded fool."

C7932. -- B1216. Fusco, Andrew G. "`Or Some Written Memorandum Thereof...'" BSJ, 22, No. 2 (June 1972), 114-119.

Holmes asserted that "there was no earthly business reason" why Hall Pycroft should have been required to sign a memorandum of his employment contract with "Arthur Pinner" and the Franco-Midland Hardware Co., Ltd. It is Fusco's contention, though, that the British Statute of Frauds was a very sound business reason for requiring the signed memorandum. He goes on to argue that perhaps the Master's legal prowess has been grossly overstated through the years. Fusco points out, however, that it is probably an even greater tribute to Holmes that his great mind required as much or more proof than the Victorian Courts, though his knowledge of the law itself was far from complete.

C7933. Belcher, Kathy M. "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk," DC, 5, No. 4 (October 1992), 4-5.

"Taking stock of questions." (Subtitle)

C7934. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of `The Stockbroker's Clerk,'" NS, No. 19 (June 26, 1984), 12-15.

A brief summary of the author's research on Stoc. The case is dated June 22, 1889.

C7935. Dvorak, Bob. "Something's Wrong at Mawson & Williams, or Holmes Must Have Had a Bad Day," NS, No. 19 (June 26, 1984), 17-19.

Examples of why the author believes Stoc marks a low point in both the detective career of Holmes and the writing career of Watson.

C7936. Eckrich, Joseph H. "The Stockbroker's Clerk," The Parallelogram, 1, No. 6 (September 19-92), 44-45.

An introduction to the Higher Criticism by the Commissionaire of PCofSTL.

C7937. Holly, Raymond L. "Hiram Abiff and Hall Pycroft: Freemasonry in `The Stockbroker's Clerk,'" WW, 10, No. 1 (May 1987), 5-11.

Literary dependence on the ritual of Freemasonry seems to be apparent in Stoc, as is a passing reference to the Orange Order.

C7938. Holly, Joy. "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk," DC, 5, No. 4 (October 1992), 5-8.

"The foolish clerk, the forger, and the fraternal frontsman." (Subtitle)

C7939. Pinckney, Kay. "The Venezuelan Loan Exposed!" CC, No. 5 (August 1983), 3-4, 10, 20.

"Why and when Coxon & Woodhouse came a cropper and Hall Pycroft ended up at the Franco-Midland Hardware Company!"

C7940. Robinson, Robert E. "The Beddington Plot," BSM, No. 44 (Winter 1985), 25-29.

One of the Beddington brothers used a preposterous ruse to transplant Pycroft to Birmingham so that a felony could be perpetrated in London (Stoc). Holmes, also taken in, accompanied him. When Clay (RedH) and later Evans (3Gar) borrowed this devise, Holmes was not fooled. He then used it himself in Illu and Reti. Watson never once recognized the plot, and faithfully continued to report it as fresh material. This suggests that the Nigel Bruce depiction of Watson may have been fairly accurate after all.

C7941. Shemilt, Leslie W. "The Stockbroker's Clerk -- A Singular Fellow in a Singular Story Indeed," CH, 4, No. 4 (Summer 1981), 3-7.

Originally entitled, "From Shallow Singularities to Unifying Comprehension; or, Beyond Watson's Ken -- Again; or, Some Musing on The Stockbroker's Clerk," this paper won the True Davidson Memorial Award for 1978.

C7942. -- A2745. Andrew, C. R. "A Difficulty in A Study in Scarlet," BSJ [OS] 3, No. 1 (January 1948), 13-14.

"A close analysis of Sherlock Holmes's technique in trapping the killer, Jefferson Hope, as set forth in A Study in Scarlet, leads one to believe that Holmes either put a great deal of faith in his luck or else that he had mentally catalogued Hope as being a downright idiot."

C7943. -- A2746. Arenfalk, Poul. "Mormon-Mysteriet og andre mysterier i En Studie i rødt," Sherlockiana, 3, Nr. 1-2 (1958), 2-5.

----------. "The Mormon Mystery and Other Mysteries in A Study in Scarlet," SHJ, 4, No. 4 (Spring 1960), 128-132.

C7944. -- A2747. Bengis, Nathan L. "The Woman," VH, 3, No. 2 (April 1969), 8-9.

A tribute to Mrs. Mary Jean Hickling (Gwynne) Bettany Kernahan, who recommended A Study in Scarlet to Ward, Lock & Company for publication in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

C7945. -- A2748. Cameron, Mary S. "Mr. and Mrs. Beeton's Christmas Annual," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 2 (1957), 5-8.

Information on the Beetons, their Christmas Annual, and the publishing firm of Ward, Lock & Company.

C7946. -- A2749. Christ, Jay Finley. "Sherlock and the Canons," BSJ, 3, No. 1 (January 1953), 5-12.

A Study in Scarlet violates the principles of the canons of the detective story, as widely accepted. In spite of this, it is an amusing and absorbing tale."

C7947. -- A2750. Clarkson, Steve. "Another Case of Identity," BSJ, 22, No. 2 (June 1972), 84-86.

The unnamed accomplice who recovered the gold wedding band for Jefferson Hope is identified as Irene Adler, the only member of the fair sex who ever got the best of Sherlock Holmes--twice."

C7948. -- A2751. Donegall, Lord. "`"I Should Like to Meet Him," I said,' -- Dr. J. H. Watson," The New Strand, 1, No. 5 (April 1962), 548-550. (Baker Street and Beyond, No. 5)

A summary and discussion of the adventure "from which all blessings flow."

C7949. -- A2752. Fusco, Andrew G. "The Final Outrage of Enoch J. Drebber," BSJ, 20, No. 3 (September 1970), 150-153.

The author has built a substantial case against Enoch Drebber, alleging that he was even more of a rogue than Watson painted him. Simply, Fusco reasons from the excessive emotion displayed by the Charpentier women that Drebber had attempted illicit advances toward young Alice--and probably succeeded. This, coupled with Inspector Gregson's reference to "the babe unborn," appears to support a contention that Alice was, in fact, pregnant as a result of the former Mormon's advances, and this would seem a more credible cause of the extreme discomfiture which had overcome the women.

C7950. -- A2753. Griffith, Adrian. "Some Observations on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at Barts," St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, 55, No. 12 (December 1951), 270-275.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 2, No. 7-8 (Winter-Spring 1966), 142-147.

Intimate and fascinating speculations on the associations of both partners with this place of their meeting." (Edgar W. Smith)

C7951. -- A2754. Hall, Trevor H. "The Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.," Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1969]. Chap. 1, p. 11-17.

"New light on the Ur-Watson, of which Stud in Beeton's (1887) was a `reprint': --evidence for the existence of a Strand Magazine prior to 1887 and, therefore, some 14 years before the 1st issue of Messrs. Newnes' The Strand Magazine, on January 1st, 1891." (Lord Donegall)

C7952. -- A2755. Hall, William S. "An Enquiry into the Nature of a Certain Nineteenth Century Beeton's Christmas Annual," BSJ, 13, No. 2 (June 1963), 112-114.

Points of difference between the BSI facsimile of Beeton's and the original.

C7953. -- A2756. Hammersgaard, Erik. Mormon-Mysteriet--endnu en gang. [The Mormon Mystery--Once Again.] Bilag til [Supplement to] Sherlockiana, 6, Nr. 4 (1961). 3 p.

C7954. -- A2757. Harrison, Michael. "Conan Doyle and the St. Luke's Mystery," Illustrated by Buster. The London Mystery Selection, No. 38 (September 1958), 76-82.

----------. Rev. and enl. with title: "A Study in Surmise," EQMM, 57, No. 2 (February 1971), 58-79.

A major contribution to Sherlockian documentation showing how Stud was inspired by events arising from the disappearance on November 12, 1881, of Urban Napoleon Stanger, a case referred to in the newspapers as "The St. Luke's Mystery." Mr. Harrison also traces the origin of Sherlock Holmes to Wendel Schemer, the private consulting detective who was called in to help locate the missing Stanger, and points out possible sources for "Baker" in Baker Street, and the inspiration for the names of Dr. Watson and the Baker Street Irregulars.

C7955. -- A2758. Harrison, Michael. "A Study in Suburbia," In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes. London: Cassell & Co., 1958. p. 112-115.

C7956. -- A2759. Henrickson, J. Raymond. "De Re Pharmaca," Leaves from the Copper Beeches. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston Pub. Co., 1959. p. 11-14.

The pill used by Jefferson Hope to kill Joseph Stangerson contained nicotine, one of the swiftest and most deadly poisons known.

C7957. -- A2760. Holroyd, James E. "Dr. Watson at the Criterion," SHJ, 2, No. 2 (December 1954), 26.

He frequented this establishment because it was a center for horse-racing men.

C7958. -- A2761. Koelle, John B. "Go West, Young Man," BSJ, 19, No. 4 (December 1969), 222-223.

A brief examination of one of Watson's more glaring errors--placing the Wasatch Mountains to the west of Salt Lake City rather than to the east.

C7959. -- A2762. Marshall, Margaret. "Alkali Dust in Your Eyes," The American Scholar, 37, No. 4 (Autumn 1968), 650-654. (Reappraisals: I)

----------. ----------, CPBook, 5, No. 18 (Spring 1969), 352-356.

An excellent summary of the great alkali plain episode in which the author, a former Utahan and ex-Mormon, takes Sir Arthur to task for his erroneous topographic descriptions of the area.

C7960. -- A2763. McCluskey, Judy. "The Cleveland Cop Who Saved Sherlock: Holmesian Detective Here Traces Down Supt. Schmitt's Great Deed Despite Rampant Local Crime," The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine [Cleveland] (December 7, 1969), 16-17.

A review and discussion of the following article; with a photograph of Schmitt and a full-page photograph of Ralph R. Mendelson by Andrew Cifranic.

C7961. -- A2764. Mendelson, Ralph. "Hero Neglected: A True Account," BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 166-171.

A fine tribute to Jacob W. Schmitt, Superintendent of Police in Cleveland from 1871 to 1893, who was not only an outstanding police chief, but is also credited with having helped Holmes by sending him information on Enoch J. Drebber, a former Clevelander who was found dead at No. 3 Lauriston Gardens.

C7962. -- A2765. Morgan, Robert S. Spotlight on a Simple Case, or Wiggins, Who Was That Horse I Saw with You Last Night. Decorations by Edgar W. Smith. Frontispiece by Arthur Josephson. Illustrations of presidential campaign items from the author's collection of Political Americana. Wilmington, Del.: Privately Printed by The Cedar Tree Press, [1959]. 51 p.

Limited to 500 numbered copies.

An interesting assessment of Holmes's first recorded case and visit to the U.S. in 1876.

C7963. -- A2766. Pattrick, Robert R. "Genesis," BSJ, 2, No. 4 (October 1952), 196-197.

An additional clue overlooked by Edgar W. Smith (DA2806) helps confirm the true date of the beginning as 1882.

C7964. -- A2767. Randall, David A. "Bibliographical Notes," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 1 (January 1947), 104-105.

Comments on the first and later editions of Stud.

C7965. -- A2768. Randall, David A. "A Study of A Study in Scarlet, London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1888; or, A Scandal in Bibliography," BSJ [OS], 1, No. 1 (January 1946), 102-106. (Bibliographical Notes)

An illuminating discussion and description of the two issues (or editions) of a book that is not only much rarer than the Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, but is also one of the rarest books of modern times.

C7966. -- A2769. Redmond, Donald A. "The Masons and the Mormons," BSJ, 18, No. 4 (December 1968), 229-231.

Enoch J. Drebber was a member of a secret or irregular lodge and wore a gold Masonic ring as a cover "to lend respectability and possibly to provide an entrée to genuine lodges in his travels."

C7967. -- A2770. Ritunnano, Jeanne. "Mark Twain vs. Arthur Conan Doyle on Detective Fiction," The Mark Twain Journal, 16, No. 1 (Winter 1971-1972), 10-14.

An analysis and comparison of A Double-Barreled Detective Story with Stud.

C7968. -- A2771. Schutz, Robert H. A List of References to Date of A Study in Scarlet. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, February 1964. 1 p.

C7969. -- A2772. [Smith, Edgar W.] "Christmas in 1887," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 5 (1960), 315-316. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

It is fitting that Mr. Smith's last editorial should be concerned with Watson's A Study in Scarlet which first appeared in his Reminiscences (a book that is regrettably lost to the world) and was then reprinted in Beeton's.

C7970. -- A2773. Smith, Edgar W. "Publishers' Note," Beeton's Christmas Annual, No. 28 (1887). [Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1960.] p. [169-172].

A bibliographical commentary on Beeton's and the facsimile edition.

C7971. -- A2774. [Smith, Edgar W.] "To Mrs. Beeton," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 1 (1956), 3-4. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

It was she, or whoever she stood for, who had the courage and the vision to give to mankind A Study in Scarlet--and with it Sherlock Holmes."

C7972. -- A2775. Solovay, Jacob C. "Watson Searches for Quarters," BSJ, 1, No. 1 (January 1951), 3.

----------. ----------, Last stanza tr. into Danish by A. D. Henriksen. Sagen om Baker Street. København: [Grafisk Cirkel], 1958. p. 10. Reprinted in Sherlockiana, 3, Nr. 3-4 (1958), 10.

Yes, Stamford, I could use a partner now / To share some lodgings at a modest price."

C7973. -- A2776. Stone, Ridley. "What's Yours?" A commentary by Ridley Stone, with verse by Carolyn Stone. VH, 5, No. 1 (January 1971), 2-6.

A consideration of the circumstances surrounding that fateful day at the Criterion Bar leads to the questions: "What did Watson and Stamford drink at the Criterion that put them in such a mellow mood that they had lunch together--at Watson's expense? Not only how much but, primarily, WHAT?"

C7974. -- A2777. "A Study in Scarlet," Cyclopedia of Literary Characters. Edited by Frank N. Magill. New York: Harper & Row, [1963]. p. 1092-1093.

A brief note on each of the principal characters.

C7975. -- A2778. "A Study in Scarlet," Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form. First Series. Edited by Frank N. Magill. New York: Harper & Row, [1952]. p. 938-941.

----------, Masterplots. Combined Edition. Edited by Frank N. Magill. New York: Salem Press, [1960]. Vol. 6, p. 3005-3007.

----------, ----------. English Fiction Series. New York: Salem Press, [1964]. p. 813-815.

----------, ----------. Comprehensive Library Edition. New York: Salem Press, [1968]. Vol. 7, p. 5036-5038.

A critique and synopsis of the story.

C7976. -- A2779. Tracy, Jack. Conan Doyle and the Latter-day Saints. [Frankfort, Ind.: Privately Produced, 1971.] 27 p. illus.

The author compares the Mormon culture in Utah during 1846-1860 with the descriptions in "The Country of the Saints," and concludes (members of the LDS Church will be happy to know) that the Mormon section of Stud is a wholly fictional work written by Doyle.

C7977. -- A2780. Von Krebs, Maria. "`Rache' Is the German for `Revenge,'" BSJ, 10, No. 1 (January 1960), 121-14.

A scene in Stud is based on one in Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad, published seven years earlier. The common device, Rache marked on a wall, is illustrated in both books.

C7978. -- A2781. Williams, H. B. "Späte Rache," BSJ, 14, No. 3 (September 1964), 158-160.

A bibliographic description of a paperback entitled Späte Rache (DA1224). Includes a reproduction of the cover and two illustrations.

C7979. -- A2782. Williamson, J. N. "The Sad Case of Young Stamford," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 4 (October 1948), 449-451.

The "Young Stamford" who is remembered for having introduced Watson to Holmes may also have been "Archie Stamford, the forger" in Soli, a helper of John Clay known as "Archie" in RedH, and the Stamford in Houn.

C7980. -- A2783. Wood, Cal. "Stamford: A Closer Look," BSP, No. 32 (February 1968), 1-2.

Young Stamford knew too much about Holmes to have acquired such knowledge from an occasional encounter with him in the chemical laboratory at Bart's. He was his roommate!

C7981. -- A2784. Wrigley, Robert L. "Geographical and Historical Errata in A Study in Scarlet," BSJ, 15, No. 3 (September 1965), 159-164.

An examination of some questionable statements in Jefferson Hope's narrative.

C7982. -- A2785. Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfield. "A Chronological Study in Scarlet," BSJ, 7, No. 3 (July 1957), 133-140.

"All in all, we can conclude that there is no essential inconsistency in Watson's chronicle, and that, as in the case of the work of another great writer [William Shakespeare], all apparent difficulties can be resolved."

C7983. -- B1217. Austin, Bliss. "A Study in Lauriston Gardens," BSCS, No. 20 (1974),1-4.

Illustrated with a map and photograph of Lauriston Gardens -- located in Edinburgh, not London.

C7984. -- B1218. "A Baker Street Correspondence," St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, 56, No. 1 (January 1952), 299-300; 56, No. 3 (March 1952), 351-352.

Letters from Gillian France, Maurice Campbell, Elsie Hudson, Zeta, Pat Coulson, and Fiat Justitia concerning Adrian Griffith's article (DA2753).

C7985. -- B1219. Ballman, Leonard H. "A Visit from Tobias Gregson," BSJ, 22, No. 3 (September 1972), 172-173.

Inspector Gregson presents the author, a Sergeant of the St. Louis Police Department, with the official police report of how he and Lestrade arrested Jefferson Hope. In it Holmes is referred to as "a usually reliable source."

C7986. -- B1220. Beckner, Jean. "Arthur Conan Doyle and Joaquin Miller," The Mystery & Detection Annual. [Edited by Donald K. Adams.] Beverly Hills, Calif.: Donald Adams, 1972. p. 256-258.

"Conan Doyle (perhaps through Bret Harte) at least knew about Miller, possibly had met him, and probably was aware of his play, The Danites. The depiction there of the Danite Band -- the Mormon secret police or `Avenging Angels' -- may well have remained in Doyle's memory, to be reawakened several years later with Stevenson's The Dynamiter [1885]."

C7987. -- B1221. Clarkson, Steve. "Scotland Yard Outfoxed??!!" The Garroter, 1, No. 1 (March 1972), 2-6.

An exchange of confidential communications between Sir Leslie Oakshott and Inspectors MacDonald, Gregson, and Lestrade concerning events surrounding the Drebber-Stangerson murders.

C7988. -- B1223. Curjel, H. E. B. "A Day in the Life of Young Stamford," SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 131-133.

----------. "Young Doctor Stamford of Barts," MB, 2, No. 3 (September 1976), 3-6. illus.

A reconstruction of Dr. Stamford's life suggests that he was a member of the teaching staff in the Anatomy Department.

C7989. -- B1224. Dillon, Richard H. "Stephen Long's Great American Desert," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 3, No. 2 (April 1967), 93-95.

Includes a description from Stud of The Great Alkali Plains.

C7990. -- B1225. Eaton, Herb. "The H.M.S. Troopship `Orontes,'" VH, 6, No. 1 (January 1972), 2-6, 8. illus.

A fascinating history of the ship that carried Watson from Bombay to Portsmouth.

C7991. -- B1226. Fadac, Fredrick. "Lucy," COTS Annual, No. 2 (1978), 8.

"She was the pride of her Pa / The Flower of Utah / The Mormons told her to Wed / She replied she'd rather be Dead."

C7992. -- B1227. [Hahn, Robert W.] "Hail Orontes," DCC, 8, No. 2 (February 1972), 2-3.

More about the troopship and illustration of same discovered by Franklin Rhode and reproduced on the cover of DCC.

C7993. -- B5947. Hardenbrook, Don. The Ballad of Lucy Ferrier, by Gaston Huret III. Tr. by Don Hardenbrook. [Long Beach, Calif.: Privately Produced, 1978.] [3] p.

"For those who feel guilty about skipping Chapters 1-5 of Part II of A Study in Scarlet." (Subtitle)

"Oh, here's to Lucy Ferrier, / That dandy little terrier; / Of whose adventures I dare say there could be nothing hairier."

C7994. -- B1228. Hoffmann, Frank A. "Another Trip Down the Road from Maiwand," CN (NS), 1, No. 3 (September 1978), 3-6.

A careful examination of Edgar W. Smith's essay, "The Long Road from Maiwand," disproves his contention that Stud took place in 1882. Most chronologists now agree that the year was 1881.

C7995. -- B1229. Malec, Andrew. "Jefferson Hope: Another Rare Actor," BSM, No. 15 (September 1978), 27-30.

Holmes may not have been the only great Canonical actor of his day. Hope also had the makings of a fine actor. "His appearance and manner were such as to command attention, he had a dramatic flair, he probably had some familiarity with the art of disguise, and he was able to essay a role on a moment's notice. ... He had the singular distinction to play the antagonist in one of the most famous of all canonical tales. As such, Jefferson Hope has achieved an immortality that few actors can hope to match."

C7996. -- B1230. Morley, Christopher. "An American Gentleman," The Saturday Review of Literature, 30, No. 38 (September 20, 1947), 16-17.

"Sherlock Holmes was born out of the ribs of Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson [The Dynamiter]."

C7997. -- B5948. Skornickel, George R., Jr. "Who Was the Mysterious Mrs. Sawyer?" SP, 1, No. 1 (October 1978), 5-6.

Jefferson Hope's accomplice is identified as the unnamed messenger described by John Ferrier as "his acquaintance who was bound for the Nevada Mountains."

C7998. -- B1231. "A Study in Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Society Evening: A Report of the Panel Discussion," SHJ, 11, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 7-15.

Contents: Notes on A Study in Scarlet, by Anthony R. Pratt. -- A Study in Scarlet in the Utah Territory, by Louise Shaler. -- A Study in Scarlet: Random Sweepings, by F. D. Bryan-Brown.

C7999. -- B1232. Tracy, Jack. "`Old Woman Be Damned!' A Partial Identification of Jefferson Hope's Accomplice," BSJ, 24, No. 2 (June 1974), 105-108, 125.

This is an intricate and scholarly non-Canonical analysis of the "Mrs. Sawyer" incident in Stud. Citing the story's internal chronology, the Scotland Yard regulations governing the licensing of cab drivers, and the ways in which these regulations commonly were circumvented, the author weaves a credible theory of "Mrs. Sawyer's" general identity out of Jefferson Hope's own contradictory statements about his activities in London.

C8000. -- B1233. Wurl, Otto. "The Jefferson Hope Aneurism," BSJ, 25, No. 4 (December 1975), 218-219.

Watson skilfully and accurately diagnosed the presence of thoracic aneurism in Hope and prognosticated its lethal course.

C8001. -- B1234. Wynne, Nancy. "A Study in Slander," MB, 3, No. 2 (June 1977), 1-3.

A reprise and criticism of "The Country of the Saints."

C8002. Anderson, L. M. "Jefferson Hope as Tragic Revenger," BSJ, 39, No. 3 (September 1989), 135-143.

"Although Dr. John H. Watson's account of Jefferson Hope's quest for revenge, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887, it contains a surprising number of elements found in a genre popular three centuries earlier, the Elizabethan revenge tragedy. The long delay before the revenge is accomplished, the use of poison, and revenger's trust in Providence, the ghosts of those whose deaths Hope is avenging, the revenger's apparent madness and his joy at accomplishing his task, even the nosebleed that provides Sherlock Holmes with a clue to Hope's appearance, are all conventions found in plays written and staged between 1587 and 1642. The persistence or reappearance of such conventions in English popular literature is interesting in and of itself; perhaps even more interesting is Watson's reaction to the story he recounts, which closely parallels the reactions of Elizabethan audiences to the revenge tragedies of their age."

C8003. Axelrad, Arthur M. "An Early Draft of A Study in Scarlet?" DB, 5 (May 22, 1983), 4.

A puzzling but revealing early manuscript of Stud.

C8004. Bedell, Jeanne F. "Borges' Study in Scarlet: `Death and the Compass' as Detective Fiction and Literary Criticism," Clues: A Journal of Detection, 6, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1985), 109-122.

Analyzes "La muerte y la brüjula" (Death and the Compass) and points out similarities between this story and Stud.

C8005. Benton, John L. "Who Was Dr. Watson's `Good Authority'?" SM, 9, No. 4 (December 1981), 23-24.

Holmes was the authority quoted by the newspaperman in Echo and the source for the background information Watson used in preparing Part Two of Stud. Holmes acquired this information while visiting Salt Lake City.

C8006. Blau, Peter E. "Prolegomenon to a Census of Beeton's Christmas Annual," BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 16-19.

A preliminary census reveals that there are twenty-four known copies of Beeton's, and there may be many more extant copies.

C8007. Blau, Peter E. "The Souvenir Edition: A Study in Scarlet," BSM, No. 50 (Summer 1987), 8-17. illus.

A bibliographic discussion of the Souvenir Edition that was first published by George Newnes in 1901 to capitalize on the British premiere of Gillette's play Sherlock Holmes.

C8008. Brody, Howard. "The Placebo in A Study in Scarlet," BSJ, 40, No. 3 (September 1990), 156-157.

Despite recent intensive research into the medical career of Doyle, no one seems to know where he derived the idea for the two outwardly identical pills in Stud. Jefferson Hope's use of the two pills constitutes a sort of novel application of the double-blind controlled clinical trial -- a modality little used in medical research until after 1945. it is possible that it was not mere chance that Drebber selected the poisoned pill and died. If the dosage had been miscalculated, Hope himself might have eaten the poisoned pill without fatal effects, while Drebber died of the overwhelming shock.

C8009. Brody, Howard. "Young Stamford," BSM, No. 49 (Spring 1987), 17.

"Young Stamford rivals Murray both in the crucial role that he plays in the Canon and in the rapidity of his appearance and disappearance."

C8010. Caplan, Richard M. "More About Young Stamford: A Further Contribution to the Holmesian Corpus," The Pharos [Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society], 44, No. 2 (Spring 1981), 16-20. illus.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 6, No. 4 (December 1983), 619-621.

A newly discovered and published letter written by young Stamford prompts a mysterious letter from Stamford's granddaughter. Included with it is another letter written by her grandfather that tells more of Stamford's life after his introduction of Watson to Holmes. It also casts new light on several persons in medical history.

C8011. Caplan, Richard M. "Whatever Became of Young Stamford? A Contribution to the Holmesian Corpus," The Pharos [Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society], 42, No. 4 (Fall 1979), 27-30. illus.

A newly discovered letter clearly written by young Stamford, found in an old medical journal, helps answer the question asked by Christopher Morley regarding the young physician who first introduced Watson to Holmes. A surprise appears concerning Stamford's feelings toward Watson and Holmes, and his motivation in putting them together.

C8012. Carroll, Lenore. "Exploring `The Country of the Saints': Arthur Conan Doyle as Western Writer," BSM, No. 51 (Autumn 1987), 1-5. illus. (A Study in Scarlet: A Symposium on Its Origins, No. 2)

"Like Harte, Twain, and the dime novels that preceded it, and the genre Westerns that followed, "The Country of the Saints" chapters of A Study in Scarlet continued and amplified the myths of the American West."

C8013. Chapman, Edgar L. "A Toast to Jefferson Hope: The First Murderer in the Canon," WW, 5, No. 1 (May 1982), 26-29.

Reasons behind the author's fondness for Jefferson Hope, "the best human being among the (Canonical) murderers," from Stud being his favorite tale to Hope being from Missouri. Hence, "Jefferson Hope" was Chapman's choice for his Canonical name upon being invested into The Hansoms of John Clayton.

C8014. Cole, James. "The Curious Incident of Holmes's Doing Little in the Daytime," BSJ, 30, No. 3 (September 1980), 170-173.

Holmes's early case reveals a man good at theory but inexperienced in the practicalities of on-the-scene investigation. He examines Drebber's body (missing the wedding ring) and then leaves the room. It is up to Lestrade to ferret out the important clues that are to be found a little further into the room. Holmes ungraciously sneers at the Scotland Yard detective's discoveries but accepts them nevertheless and makes use of them.

C8015. Cooperman, Earl M. "Marfan's Syndrome and Sherlock Holmes," Canadian Medical Association Journal, 112, No. 4 (February 22, 1975), 423.

Letters: CMAJ, 113, No. 1 (July 12, 1975), (Donald A. Redmond); 113 (November 8, 1975), 815 (Hampton R. Bates); 113 (December 13, 1975) (Earl M. Copperman).

----------. ----------, BC, 8, No. 5 (August 1991), 18-19.

A series of letters regarding the underlying causes of Jefferson Hope's death.

C8016. Crelling, Jack. "The Investigation into the Narrative of Jefferson Hope," BCA (1987), 27-31.

"The story of Jefferson Hope agrees very well with the known historical facts, and the incidents described seem plausible. As a story about the Mormon experience, it also probably attracted wide popular interest. If we keep in mind the fact that Stud was the first of the Canonical stories published, it clearly set a strong precedent for both a detailed agreement with the times and involving a subject of wide popular interest."

C8017. Cummings, Carey. "The Dating of A Study in Scarlet," NS, No. 29 (October 3, 1992), 2-8.

A summary of the author's research on Stud. The case occurred during March 26-29, 1881.

C8018. Cummings, Carey. "A Tangled Skein Untangled," NS, No. 23 (July 16, 1985), 6-7.

Similarities between Albany de Grenier Fonblaque's novel and Stud.

C8019. Davidson, True. "Seven Drops of Water About Canada's Holmes," CH, 11, No. 1 (Autumn 1987), 3-10.

Deduces from Stud the history and character of Holmes and his relationship with Watson and others.

C8020. De Freitas, Wilfrid. "Something Special About the Murray Family," CH, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1988), 21-22.

A toast to Private Richard Murray, Watson's orderly in the Afghan campaign, whose uncle was John Murray, the well-known publisher.

C8021. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Notes for A Study in Scarlet," BSM, No. 49 (Spring 1987), 18.

C8022. Dunn, Dave. "Limber Limericks," CH, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1988), 12.

"In a recent Canadian Holmes / Dorothy Pollack in one of her poems / Asked for advice / As to where was that nice / Chap, Stamford, now making his home."

C8023. Eckrich, Joseph J. "Are Limitation Statements Too Limited?" P&D, No. 111 (December 1987), 3, 5-6, 8. (Sherlockian Byways)

Not all is as it seems with the BSI facsimile of Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887.

C8024. Evans, Dorothyanne. "A Study in Scotland," The Ritual, No. 11 (Spring 1993), 3-5. illus.

The true location of 3 Lauriston Gardens is in Edinburgh, not London.

C8025. Feldberg, Robert. "A History of Mystery: Picking the Top 10 Whodunits," The Record [Bergen/ Passaic/Hudson Counties, N.J.] (April 19, 1979), B-1, B-8, B-11. illus.

The first is A Study in Scarlet.

C8026. Flynn, Patricia Dodd. "A Study in Scarlet and Nevada," SMuse, 5, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 10-13.

"`The Country of the Saints' is a melodrama concocted mainly by Watson to `tinge with romanticism' his first case as Holmes' Boswell."

C8027. Foss, T. F. "`Observation with Me Is Second Nature,'" BSJ, 32, No. 4 (December 1982), 231. (Letters to Baker Street)

Examples of Holmes's brilliant deductions make it difficult to understand why he failed to observe that the decrepit old woman who visited him was actually a sprightly male actor.

C8028. Foster, Richard. "A Weekend in a `single, large, airy sitting room,'" SHJ, 20, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 64-65.

A chronological account of the events during March 4-5, from a discussion of the "Brixton Mystery" to the capture and death of Jefferson Hope.

C8029. Frank, Jerome P. "Brisk Sales and Good Traffic Highlight Antiquarian Book Fair," Publishers Weekly, 223, No. 24 (June 17, 1983), 57-59.

A report on the 23rd Antiquarian Book Fair, New York City, in which it is noted that Serendipity sold a copy of Beeton's Christmas Annual, 1887, for $18,000.

C8030. Friedman, Mickey. "Murder by Auction," San Francisco Examiner (December 14, 1981), E3.

Among the more than 7,000 volumes of mystery and detective fiction amassed by the late Adrian Goldstone of Mill Valley was the first separate edition of Stud, purchased by a local dealer named Warren Howell for $15,000 at the California Book Auction Galleries.

C8031. Galerstein, David. "A Sherlockian Reminisce," PP, 3, No. 1 (1980), 4-6.

The fight with Jefferson Hope in the crowded 221b sitting room raises several interesting and unanswered questions.

C8032. Green, Richard Lancelyn. The Centenary of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet, 1887-1987. 1 card.

"With the compliments of the season from Richard Lancelyn Green."

"Privately printed in 1986 for Richard Lancelyn Green, for his friends, fellow Baker Street Irregulars, and members of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, to celebrate the centenary of Sherlock Holmes."

Commentary on and reproductions of a letter of rejection from James Payn, the editor of Cornhill Magazine in May 1886; a note by Doyle that he began the story in March and finished it in April 1886 and that it was sent to Arrowsmith in May and returned unread in July, and then sent to Fred Warner & Co. in August and to Ward, Lock & Co. in September; two letters of acceptance from Ward, Lock & Co. dated October 30 and November 2; and the payment receipt in the amount of £25 dated November 20.

C8033. Green, Richard Lancelyn. Lever Bros., Limited: `A Detective and a Love Plot.' London: Privately printed, December 1991. 1 card. illus.

A Christmas card with comments on the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Library edition of Stud and "Burger's Secret" ("The New Catacomb") and with a cover portrait of Doyle on a "soap card" advertising Royal Dry Soap.

C8034. Harrison,. Michael. "Um estudo em conjecturas," Mistério Magazine de Ellery Queen [Pôrto Alegre, Brasil], No. 268 (November 1971), 48-68.

Tr. of "A Study in Surmise," EQMM, February 1971 (DA2757).

C8035. Hershey, Dave M. Celebrating 100 Years of the York College 1887-1987. [York, Pa.: Privately Printed, 1987.] [8] p. illus.

With a cover photograph of Holmes in stained glass, commissioned by Hershey in 1986.

Limited to 100 numbered copies.

"The actual site of Jefferson Hope's employment at York Collegiate Institute, or York College as stated in Stud, may finally have, after one hundred years, been located in York College of Pennsylvania."

C8036. Holly, Raymond L. "A Sitcom of 1888," BCA (1987), 11-18.

A popular book by Marietta Holley, My Wayward Pardner, published in the U.S. in 1888, shows a similar attitude toward Mormonism as Stud does, published a year earlier. Neither story would have attracted much attention if published a very few years later, after the disavowal of polygamy by the Later-day Saints in 1890.

C8037. "Holmes Book Brings $15,000 at Auction," Worcester Telegram (December 2, 1981).

----------, CPBook, 5, No. 2 (June 1982), 465.

C8038. Hutton, Lloyd A. "Sherlock Holmes and the Resident Doctor," BSJ, 41, No. 2 (June 1991), 77-81.

Through an analysis of their first encounter, the author explains why the ordinarily reclusive Holmes eagerly accepted Watson, a total stranger, into the extraordinarily close personal relationship that followed. The Great Detective's observations, reasoning, and infallible deductions concerning their initial meeting provide the answer.

C8039. Keefauver, Brad. "The Hundred-Year-Old Mystery of Mrs. Sawyer Solved," WW, 10, No. 3 (January 1988), 18-20.

The accomplice who came to retrieve Hope's wedding ring from Holmes was Lucy Ferrier-Drebber ("Mrs. Sawyer").

C8040. Keefauver, Brad. "Some Personalia About Miss Lucy Ferrier," CHJ, 10, No. 1 (January 1988), 2-3.

Lucy Ferrier was originally from Southern Illinois. Her true last name was Bender-Ferrier; her father, Mr. Bender was a member of the Ferrier wagon party and the first to die when the party became lost on the Great Alkali Plain.

C8041. Keefauver, Brad. "Watson's First Critics," Q£$, 8, No. 4 (November 1987), 52-55.

Another tin dispatch-box discovery produces a collection of Watson's rejection notices on Stud.

C8042. Kennedy, Bruce. "The Youngest Girl in the Canon," SP , 4, No. 3 (April 1982), 16.

"Lucy with a broken heart just slowly pined away / But Hope avenged her death in a land so far away ... "

C8043. Kraus, W. Keith. "Mark Twain's `A Double-Barreled Detective Story': A Source for the Solitary Oesophagus," Mark Twain Journal, 16, No. 2 (Summer 1972), 10-12.

"A Study in Scarlet served as the basis for Twain's overall satire, and in turn, part of the failure of A Double-Barreled Detective Story might be traced to Doyle's intricate structure which Twain tried to mimic."

C8044. Lai, Rick. "The Hansoms of John Clay," WW, 6, No. 3 (January 1984), 5-8.

While searching for John Clayton of Houn among hansom cab drivers, his cousin John Clay of RedH befriended Jefferson Hope and posed as the old woman who retrieved Lucy Ferrier's ring from Holmes.

C8045. Lauterbach, Edward. "The Adventure of the Purloined Red Herring," The Poisoned Pen, 3, No. 5 (October 1930), 3-8.

Despite Martha Wirt Davis's effort to create a clever and eccentric detective in the person of Professor Pedro José María Guadeloupe O'Reilly y Apodaca, The Professor Knits a Shroud (New York: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1951) remains an ordinary detective novel. Its only interest lies in the use of elements from Stud. This is perhaps one of the few times when the same esoteric device -- the word "rache" -- is used as a red herring in almost the same way in two murder mysteries. The Professor Knits a Shroud remains today something of a Sherlockian curiosity, relying heavily on the misdirection used by Doyle in the first published adventure of the Master Detective.

C8046. Lauterbach, Edward. "The Meeting," BSM, No. 50 (Summer 1987), 5.

"What was your purpose, awful Force, that wrought, / That brought the two men face to face across / a Simple test tube and a drop of blood?"

C8047. Lawrence, William. "The Case of the Missing Jackets," SHR, 2, No. 2 (1989), 73-77. illus.

An history of dust jackets for early editions of Stud.

C8048. Lehman, John. "Enoch J. Drebber," BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 14-15.

A commentary on the "steadfast disciple of the one true religion!" With a drawing by Henry Lauritzen.

C8049. Lithner, Klas. "In the Country of the Saints," Sherlockiana, 28, Nr. 2-3 (1983), 11-12.

Text in Danish.

C8050. Lohmann, Charles P., III. "A Few Particulars on Jefferson Hope," Holmeswork, 9, No. 1 (January 1982), 5-11.

C8051. McClure, Michael W. "Making a Study of the Sources for Stud," DC, 2, No. 4 (October 1989), 5-9.

A survey of the real events and people that provided the possible inspiration for Doyle's novel.

C8052. Melander, Wayne. "Sierra Blanco -- Found" BSJ, 31, No. 2 (June 1981), 83-89. illus.

Analysis of the account of the rescue of John and Lucy Ferrier shows that they were rescued by a group of Mormons known as the Pilgrim Band. >From a comparison of the account in Stud with diaries and other records of the Pilgrim Band, the rescue site and date are identified as Oregon Buttes near South Pass, Wyoming, and June 24, 1847, respectively. The rescue was not recorded by the Mormons; this is probably due to the occurrence of other highly significant events on that day. Misleading references to various landmarks reflect contemporaneous understanding of the geography of the region.

C8053. Meyer, Charles A. "A Computer Analysis of Authorship in A Study in Scarlet," NS, No. 16, (September 28, 1983) 3-6.

As a result of a statistical analysis of Stud, the author has concluded that there is a strong probability that the two separate sections were written by two people, that Watson wrote both the first section of Stud and Adventures, and that the frequency of various words, particularly "upon," indicates that Doyle wrote the second section titled "The Country of the Saints."

C8054. Moore, Richard and Helen. "The Gallant Murray: Fiction or Fact?" WW, 10, No. 3 (January 1988), 29-33.

Intensive research of Doyle's characterizations, Victorian military history, casualty rolls, and the Registry of the Victorian Cross led to the discovery of a plausible `Gallant Murray.' The authors hypothesize that Lance Corporal James Murray of the 94th Regiment, recipient of the Victorian Cross awarded for performance in the Battle of Elandsfontein, South Africa, January 16, 1881, fills the description in terms of deed, age, and time frame.

C8055. Moore, Richard and Helen. "Toast to the Gallant Murray," WW, 12, No. 3 (January 1990), 15.

"You, Gallant Murray -- Hero / most sublime, brought Watson out / To pen most treasured lore / -- the Master's facts."

C8056. Morgan, Robert S. Spotlight on a Simple Case, or Wiggins, Who Was That Horse I Saw with You Last Night. Decorations by Edgar W. Smith. Frontispiece by Arthur Josephson. Illustrations of presidential campaign items from the author's collection of Political Americana. [New York: Magico Magazine, n.d., 1984.] 51 p.

Reprint of the 1959 edition (DA2765).

Review: BSM, No. 43 (Autumn 1985), 39-40 (Jon L. Lellenberg).

C8057. Pollack, Dorothy Belle. "Missing Person," CH, 10, No. 4 (Summer 1987), 21.

Limericks concerning Stamford.

C8058. Pond, Walter. "A Study in Beeton's (Or, Those Never Passed the Philadelphia Mint)," CH, 13, No. 2 (Winter 1989), 4-6.

A note on Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and the two facsimile editions published in 1960 and 1987.

C8059. Ranild, Svend. "Lad os kalde ham X," Sherlockiana, 32, Nr. 2-3 (1987), 15-20.

Text in Danish.

C8060. "Rare Sherlock," Star-News [Burbank, Calif.] (August 28, 1987), C-3.

Photograph of John Mitchell holding a copy of Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 that was purchased from a Pasadena collector by Otto Penzler for $15,000.

C8061. Redmond, Chris. "A Study in A Study in Scarlet," CH, 14, No. 2 (Winter 1990), 23-27.

Remarks by the author at a meeting of a new mystery society in London, Ontario, on October 24, 1990.

C8062. Rogers, Marakay J. "`I See,' He Said, `You Are the Mormons,'" GOI, No. 1 (1981), 10-15.

This article concerns the murders of Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson, and Holmes and Jefferson Hope's accounts of Mormonism that made Hope feel his actions were justifiable.

C8063. Rosenblatt, Albert M. "Stangerson Unmasked, or Truth Is Strang-er Than Fiction," BSJ, 42, No. 4 (December 1992), 210-212.

The author reveals the inspiration for the villain Joseph Stangerson and takes issue with earlier writers who connect Stangerson with Urban Napoleon Stanger, the German baker in London's St. Luke's Mystery of 1881. Rosenblatt submits that the source for Stangerson is found in Mormon history, in the person of James Jesse Strang, who established the Order of Enoch in Wisconsin in 1846 and met his death that year. Like Stangerson, he was stalked and assassinated.

C8064. Ruyle, John. The Bull Pup: Studies in A Study. Berkeley: Gregson, Lestrade & Co., 1991. 35 p.

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

Twenty-seven "remarkable paraphrastic quartets" based on quotations from Stud, and a poem written by Holmes himself.

C8065. Shelangoskie, Mary. "Madame Charpentier Explains," SP, 4, No. 3 (April 1982), 12.

"Some gentlemen offered me / double the rental, / For that's what they wanted to pay; / I've never been callous to Alice, / In spite of what others might say!"

C8066. Shreffler, Philip A. "Jefferson Hope," BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 32-33.

A profile of "the first Sherlockian criminal ... evolved as a character rather like Sherlock Holmes," with a drawing by Henry Lauritzen.

C8067. Shreffler, Philip A. "Jefferson Hope in Missouri -- 1869," CNFB, No. 1 (May 1983), 2-5.

In his quest for Drebber and Stangerson, Hope travelled to Jackson County, Missouri, where he certainly met members of the celebrated Jesse James gang.

C8068. Shreffler, Philip A. "The Truth About Jefferson Hope," BSJ, 34, No. 3 (September 1984), 133-135.

Jefferson Hope is identified as Captain Jefferson Hunt, who was hired by the San Joachin Company to lead a party of Mormon emigrants by a southern route across the Old Spanish Trail to San Bernardino in 1849. The story is told in a booklet entitled Death Valley National Monument Museum Text (Death Valley Natural History Association, 1981).

C8069. Skornickel, George R., Jr. "Who Was the Mysterious Mrs. Sawyer?" BSJ, 29, No. 2 (June 1979), 105.

First published in SP, October 1978 (DB5948).

C8070. Speck, Gordon R. "The Proper Study," CHJ, 9, No. 12 (December 1987), 2-3.

Young Stamford sets Watson on the course that creates the Canon. Watson quotes, "The proper study of mankind is man," and Stamford tells him that he must study Holmes.

C8071. Speck, Gordon R. "The Tangled Skein: Robert C. Burr, Dorothy L. Sayers, John H. Watson," WW, 9, No. 3 (January 1987), 11-12.

Burr provides information that, combined with Sayers's conclusion about Watson's middle name and Holmes's repeated use of a phrase, adds both support for Sayer's classic argument and plausible inferential detail to life at 221b.

C8072. Stetak, Ruthann H. "Jefferson Hope: A Fairly Good Dispenser," BSJ, 39, No. 3 (September 1989), 144-147.

Considers the poison used in Stud from a pharmacist's point of view. By using the techniques available and reviewing the pharmaceutical literature available, it is determined that physostigmine, the West African ordeal poison, was the poison in Jefferson Hope's pills.

C8073. A Study in Scarlet Centenary Special, 1887-1987. Edited by Nicholas Utechin and Heather Owen. The Sherlock Holmes Journal/The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1987. 64 p. illus.

Supplement to SHJ, 18, No. 3, Winter 1987.

Contents: Introduction by Nicholas Utechin. -- Doctor Doyle's Busy Year, by Geoffrey Stavert. -- The Book of Genesis, by Bernard Davies. -- Saints and Sinners: An Appraisal of "The Country of the Saints," by Peter Horrocks. -- A Study in Scarlet: A Bibliographical Survey, by Richard Lancelyn Green. -- A Study in the Media, by Roger Johnson.

C8074. "A Study in Scarlet: The Early Critics," BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 1-5.

Reprints of thirteen reviews (undated) of Stud in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

C8075. Todd, Christopher. "A Short History of Early Mormonism," CNFB, No. 1 (May 1983), 5-7.

An overview of Mormonism, with observations on Drebber and Stangerson's tenuous relationship with the Saints.

C8076. Tracy, Jack. Conan Doyle and the Latter-day Saints. Bloomington, Ind.: Gaslight Publications, 1979. 69 p.

A revised and expanded edition of the author's previous monograph (DA2779), with several illustrations and an introduction to the Sherlock Holmes Monograph Series by John Bennett Shaw.

Reviews: BSM, No. 20 (December 1979), 30 (Milton F. Perry); SHJ, 15, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 28 (Nicholas Utechin).

C8077. Umansky, Harlan L. "An Adventure in `Wild Surmise,'" BSJ, 32, No. 1 (March 1982), 25-29.

----------. ----------, PP (NS), No. 1 (March 1989), 24-28.

Demonstrates by references to Doyle's play Angels of Darkness, to incidents in the Canon, and to citations of the British fascination with Mormonism in the 1880's, that Doyle, not Watson, wrote the American retrospective in Stud. Hints that the American retrospective about the Scowrers of Vermissa Valley in Vall was also written by Doyle.

C8078. Ward, Lock & Co. ["Letters"], BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 8, 20, 34.

Reproductions of three letters dated October 30, November 2, and November 20, 1886, offering Doyle £25 for the copyright to Stud.

C8079. Warga, Wayne. "Record Prices: They dunit at a Whodunit Book Auction," Los Angeles Times (December 15, 1981), V, 1, 6, 8. illus.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 5, No. 2 (June 1982), 462-464.

"A Study in Scarlet, first chronicle of Sherlock Holmes' adventures, brought $15,000 at San Francisco auction of Adrian Goldstone book collection." With photographs of Stud, Ted Schulz, and Warren Howell.

C8080. Warner, Dick. "The Packhorse," BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 6-7.

A toast to the packhorse that transported Watson away from the carnage to safety, with a drawing of a statue "erected in memory of the packhorse" by Henry Lauritzen.

C8081. Williams, H. B. "Dr. Watson's Pamphlet," Client's Case-Notes. Edited by Brian R. MacDonald. Indianapolis: The Illustrious Clients, 1983. p. 12-13.

A shorter version of Stud first appeared in a privately published pamphlet by Watson that must also have contained a brief account of Watson's boyhood, schooling, and army life. "The Country of the Saints" was added to Watson's story by an editor or staff writer of Beeton's Annual in order that the story would be long enough to include in the Annual.

C8082. Williams, Newton M. "The Very Few Variations in the Text of A Study in Scarlet," CHJ, 6, No. 4 (April 1984), 2-3.

The author and his wife were surprised to find very few variations in the texts of their many editions of Stud. This is in sharp contrast to the more than five-hundred variations to be found in their editions of Sign.

C8083. -- A2786. Ball, John. "The Jezail Bullet," Leaves from the Copper Beeches. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston Pub. Co., 1959. p. 121-126.

A tightly reasoned essay in which the author examines the statements in the Canon and the various theories advanced by students as to the location of Watson's wound; and arrives, by a process of elimination, at the "definitive" conclusion that he was wounded on the left buttock but relocated his wound in a more satisfactory and mentionable region.

C8084. -- A2787. Baring-Gould, William S. "`Your Hand Stole Towards Your Old Wound...,'" BSJ, 16, No. 3 (September 1966), 131-134.

----------. ----------, The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 1, chap. 34, p. 606-609.

A review of the literature on Watson's wound(s)--two, according to the author.

C8085. -- A2788. Bell, H. W. "Note on Dr. Watson's Wound," Baker Street Studies. Edited by H.W. Bell. London: Constable & Co., [1934]. p. 220-223.

"Watson was wounded both in the heel and in the left shoulder; and it is evident that the inaccuracy, or worse, with which, in this connection, he has been charged, is due to his native reticence."

C8086. -- A2789. Brain, Peter. "Dr. Watson's War Wounds," The Lancet, No. 7634 (December 20, 1969), 1354-1355.

An explanation of how his leg and shoulder wounds could have been caused by the same bullet.

C8087. -- A2790. Brend, Gavin. "From Maiwand to Marylebone," SHJ, 1, No. 3 (June 1953), 40-44.

Another tracing of Watson's activities between July 27 and March 4 suggests that Stud took place in 1881 rather than 1882, the year assigned by Edgar W. Smith (DA2806).

C8088. -- A2791. Chorley, Jennifer. "No Bar for Maiwand," SHJ, 7, No. 2 (Spring 1965), 54.

Describes a specimen of an old campaign medal that may have been awarded to Asst. Surgeon J. H. Watson for his part in the Maiwand battle.

C8089. -- A2792. Cumings, Thayer. "On an Unheralded Hero," Seven on Sherlock. [New York]: Privately Printed, 1968. p. 39.

"Had Murray not heard his master's moans / We might never have ever heard of Holmes. / For the murderous Ghazis would have gored him for sure / And Watson would never have reached Peshawur."

C8090. -- A2793. Dardess, John. "The Maiwand-Criterion Hiatus," BSJ [OS], 4, No. 1 (January 1949), 115-117.

A further argument in favor of Edgar W. Smith's position that Watson was wounded twice at Maiwand.

C8091. -- A2794. Donegall, Lord. "Dr. Watson's Picture-Story," SHJ, 8, No. 2 (Spring 1967), 63.

Six photographs, with captions, of the Battle of Maiwand.

C8092. -- A2795. Folsom, Henry T. "Seventeen Out of Twenty-Three," BSJ, 14, No. 1 (March 1964), 24-26.

Watson acquired his other wound during a second hitch in the Army, from the summer of 1881 to early 1883. "At that time, while apparently encountering some Ghazi guerrilla in a border incident, he caught a second Jezail, this time in the leg."

C8093. -- A2796. Hammond, Roland. "The Surgeon Probes Doctor Watson's Wound," The Second Cab. Edited by James Keddie. [Boston: The Speckled Band, 1947.] p. 28-31.

Watson's wound may have been located nearer to the base of the neck than in the shoulder region."

C8094. -- A2797. Hartman, Harry. "Afghan A'Gley," BSJ, 13, No. 1 (March 1963), 50-52, 54.

----------. ----------, The Holy Quire. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, December 1970.] p. 20-23.

One man's story of Watson at the Battle of Maiwand, with speculations on what might have been if Orderly Murray had not been on the job.

C8095. -- A2798. Hepburn, W. B. "The Jezail Bullet," The Practitioner, 197 (July 1966), 100-101.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 8, No. 1 (Winter 1966), 18-19.

Contents: A Mediocre General Practitioner. -- Intracranial Injury Theory. -- The `Two Bullet Theory'. -- The Real Explanation.

C8096. -- A2799. Howard, Samuel F. "More About Maiwand," BSJ, 7, No. 1 (January 1957), 20-25.

Watson was not wounded at the Battle of Maiwand on July 27, 1880, but in the campaign of Maiwand earlier in the month and did not, as Dr. Zeisler contends, remain at Kandahar until September 10.

C8097. -- A2800. Keddie, James, Sr. "The Mystery of the Second Wound," Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 173-177.

"The hinterlands of the Assistant-Surgeon Watson was the billet for the second jezail bullet."

C8098. -- A2801. Lesh, Richard D. "Watson, Come Here; I Want You: In Afghanistan," BSJ, 14, No. 3 (September 1964), 136-138.

On the Afghan travels of the biographer of Mr. Sherlock Holmes."

C8099. -- A2802. Metcalfe, N. Percy. "The Date of The Study in Scarlet," SHJ, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1959), 37-40.

Another argument supporting the English view that this case took place in 1881 and not in 1882 as the Americans contend.

C8100. -- A2803. Schutz, Robert H. A Bibliography of the Writings on Watson's Wound(s). Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, June 1960. 1 p.

----------. Revised with title: "Dr. Watson's Wound(s): A Selected Bibliography," BSJ, 16, No. 3 (September 1966), 136-137.

C8101. -- A2804. Sellars, Crighton. "Ballistics," BSJ [OS], 1, No. 2 (April 1946), 162.

----------. ----------, BSP, No. 26 (August 1967), 1.

Surely no Afghan slug from a jezail / Ever hit male / More queerly!"

C8102. -- A2805. Slovak, Richard. "Re-Dating A Study in Scarlet, or The Very Long Road from Maiwand," HO, 1, No. 1 (March 1971),19-28.

A careful study of the entire Canonical chronology shows that this adventure occurred between March 4 and 7, 1884.

C8103. -- A2806. Smith, Edgar W. The Long Road from Maiwand. [New York: The Pamphlet House], 1940. [4] p.

----------. ----------, Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 195-201.

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

"An examination of the evidence bearing upon the dating of a certain encounter in the chemical laboratory at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London." (Subtitle)

Mr. Smith argues that too much had occurred after the Battle of Maiwand for Watson to have sailed from Bombay before April 1880, which would place Stud in March 1882 instead of March 1881.

C8104. -- A2807. Smith, William. "`You Have Been in Gettysburg, I Perceive,'" BSJ, 13, No. 2 (June 1963), 77-85.

Watson was wounded both at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 and the Battle of Maiwand in 1880.

C8105. -- A2808. [Sovine, J. W.] "The Singular Bullet," by Dr. Hill Barton [pseud.] BSJ, 9, No. 1 (January 1959), 28-32.

"Dr. Watson was struck in the left shoulder by a jezail bullet, and this was his one and only military wound. All the commotion and puzzlement among the many commentators followed simply because that jezail bullet, after entering Watson's body, took an Irregular course."

C8106. -- A2809. Van Liere, Edward J. "Dr. John H. Watson and the Subclavian Steal," Archives of Internal Medicine, 118, No. 3 (September 1966), 245-248.

----------. ----------, Medical and Other Essays. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966. p. 160-166.

His forgetfulness or slight mental confusion can be attributed to an impaired blood supply to the brain, the result of a circulatory disturbance caused by an obstruction in the injured subclavian artery.

C8107. -- A2810. Welch, G. W. "`No Mention of That Local Hunt, Watson,'" SHJ, 5, No. 3 (Winter 1961), 82-83.

Watson gave up hunting because of the wound he received at the Battle of Maiwand.

C8108. -- A2811. Williamson, J. N. "Solution of the Second Wound," Illustrious Client's Third Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson and H. B. Williams. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1953.] p. 191.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 16, No. 3 (September 1966), 135.

"We take our cue, we're not to blame; / Holmes simply missed a `V. R.' aim / And hit poor Watson (what a shame!), / Which made the doctor slightly lame."

C8109. -- A2812. Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfield. "A Final Word About Maiwand," BSJ, 9, No. 2 (April 1959), 103-110.

A critical examination of the literature on the Battle of Maiwand.

C8110. -- A2813. Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfield. "The Road from Maiwand," BSJ, 5, No. 4 (October 1955), 220-225.

A further substantiation of the position held by Edgar Smith, John Dardess, and Gavin Brend that the meeting between Holmes and Watson took place in March 1882 and not March 1881.

C8111. -- B1235. Adams, Karin Laflin. "The Truth About Watson's Jez-Ailment," MSB, 2, No. 2 (March 1978), 5.

"The only possible explanation of how Watson's leg was wounded is that it was done by Sherlock Holmes himself, who kept constantly and remorselessly pulling it."

C8112. -- B1236. Bates, Hampton R. "Dr. Watson and the Jezail Bullet," Virginia Medical, 103, No. 11 (November 1976), 828-829. illus.

"Wherein mysteries of a stiff shoulder and a barometric leg, souvenirs of the battlefield, are explored in a Holmesian manner."

C8113. -- B1237. Fonaroff, L. Schuyler. "Kabul Cabal, or New Light on the Location of Dr. Watson's Sub-clavian Arterial Wounding and Subsequent Bone Destruction," BSJ, 27, No. 4 (December 1977), 219-222.

Three problems are posed and tentatively resolved. The first addresses the nature of the evidence used by Holmes in concluding that Watson had been in the tropics. The second concerns options available to Sherlockian cartographers for locating the Maiwand battle site. The third discusses the circumstances surrounding Watson's subclavian battle wound.

C8114. -- B1238. Harrison, Michael. "Dr. Watson Goes to Reading," PD (NS), 3, No. 2 (1977), 6-10. (The Master's Corner)

Speculation on Watson and Richard Holmes's alleged visit to the Berkshire town of Reading on December 15, 1886, to witness the unveiling of a memorial to the men killed during the Afghan War of 1879-1880.

C8115. -- B1239. Harrison, Michael. "That `Path Lab' Meeting: Was Holmes Expecting Watson ... ?" SHJ, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 69-72.

"Mr. Holmes had heard of Dr. Watson, and (though possibly not on that day; and not introduced by `young Stamford') expected him to call, with details of an astonishing story that both men decided afterwards to leave untold."

C8116. -- B1240. Hepburn, W. B. "The Jezail Bullet," MB, 1, No. 4 (December 1975), 8.

Reprinted from The Practitioner, July 1966 (DA2798).

C8117. -- B1241. Holroyd, James Edward. "McGonall on Maiwand," SHJ, 13, No. 3 (Spring 1978), 86.

An introduction, followed by extracts from William McGonall's ode "The Last Berkshire Eleven: The Heroes of Maiwand," reprinted as a centenary tribute.

C8118. -- B1242. Propp, Bill. "O! Where Is Watson's Wandering Wound Tonight?" The Woods-Runner [Lake Superior State College, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.], 4, No. 14 (Fall 1974), 41-42.

He was shot in the shoulder, and the bullet travelled through the circulatory system to his leg!

C8119. -- B1243. Shannon, D. C. "Poor Devil," The Pharos [Alpha Omega Alpha -- Honor Medical Society, Palo Alto, Calif.], 41, No. 4 (October 1978), 5-9. illus.

The reader is lead from Maugham to Watson, from Afghanistan to Baker Street, from the subclavian artery to the posterior tibial, and from theory to medical facts.

C8120. -- B1244. Wagley, Philip Franklin. "A Reconsideration of Dr. John H. Watson's Encounter with a Jezail Bullet," Maryland State Medical Journal, 25, No. 12 (December 1976), 35-37. illus.

With a Sherlockian cover illustration by Claude Brooks.

----------. ----------, MB, 3, No. 2 (June 1977), 4-6.

There is no contradiction in the Canon about Watson's injury at Maiwand. The Jezail bullet ricocheted off the clavicle bone, then reentered the medial aspect of the thigh. The mechanics and pathophysiology are described.

C8121. -- B1245. Woods, Carol Paul. "The Structure Threatened, or Are the Machinations of Moriarty's Minions Still Being Made Manifest?" BSJ, 25, No. 2 (June 1975), 98-100.

At Maiwand a jezail bullet sent Watson to his historic association with Holmes. But Maiwand is disappearing from the maps of the world, and the encyclopedia references are sharply declining. This may denote a sinister plot to undermine, ultimately, the entire Holmes edifice.

C8122. Axelrad, Arthur M. "Berkshire Bobbie's Last Bark," DL, 1 (Fall 1984), 10-17.

The history of Berkshire Bobbie and Frank Feller's painting, The Stand of the Last Eleven, may have been sources for the Maiwand passage in Stud.

C8123. Bates, Hampton R. "Dr. Watson and the Jezail Bullet," BC, 9, No. 1 (February 1992), 6-7.

First published in the Virginia Medical, November 1976 (DB1236).

C8124. Black, Stephen M. "Was Watson, Watson?" BSJ, 30, No. 2 (June 1980), 86-93. illus.

The author contends that Dr. John H. Watson was killed, not wounded, at Maiwand. Murray, his "faithful orderly," switched identities with the dead Watson. "Murray" was actually Pvt. Henry Murrell, Serial #1555, Rifleman, 66th Berkshires, who acted as a medical orderly. This Murrell is the man we all know as the real chronicler of Holmes's exploits. The author includes a casualty roll from the London war office to support his argument.

C8125. Brody, Howard. "Maiwand, July 27, 1880," BSJ, 30, No. 2 (June 1980), 68.

A map of the Battle of Maiwand, published in the John H. Watson Commemorative Issue of The Baker Street Journal.

C8126. Christner, Richard S. "The Second Afghanistan War: The Military Career of Assistant Surgeon John H. Watson," TW, 2, No. 2 (1980), 13-15.

"Watson's military career, one that lasted only a single military campaign, was both short-lived and unhappy. In Watson's words: `The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.' On the other hand, Watson's misfortune eventually allowed the world to share the adventures of perhaps the greatest detective in modern history."

C8127. Cochran, William R. "Murray," WW, 14, No. 1 (May 1991), 33.

"For if Murray had failed to save Watson that night, / who'd have written of Holmes and kept up the fight? / So as we sing Sherlock's praises, remember the day / Murray saved `Good old Watson.' Hip-hip-horray!"

C8128. Dandrew, Thomas A. "The Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers," NS, No. 7 (March 31, 1981), 11

"A Kipling/Watson parallel."

C8129. Dandrew, Thomas A. "Watson's Second Wound: Yet Another Speculation," NS, No. 7 (March 31, 1981), 11-14. illus.

Watson's other wound may not have been the result of a Jezail bullet but of a comrade's bullet in a "hot-weather shooting case," mentioned by C. E. Carrington in The Life of Rudyard Kipling.

C8130. Geyer, Jackie. "Memories of Maiwand," Edited and illustrated by Jackie Geyer. BSM, No. 22 (Summer 1980), 10-12.

"From the unpublished reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department." (Subtitle)

C8131. Hammer, David L. "Of Watsons, Wars and Wounds," SHJ, 17, No. 4 (Summer 1987), 116-117.

Watson was never in Afghanistan with the Army and was not wounded.

Letter: SHJ, 18, No. 1 (Winter 1987), 32-33 (G.R.C.D. Gibson).

C8132. "A Hundred Years Ago Watson and Comrades Fought in Afghanistan," CH, 3, No. 4 (St. Jean Baptiste Day 1980), 3-5. illus.

A short, un-attributed history of the Battle of Maiwand on July, 27, 1880, which was the first major battle of the Second Afghan War.

C8133. Jones, Bob. "Report from Peshawar," BSJ, 31, No. 4 (December 1981), 231-233.

A report of a journey to India and Afghanistan in 1980, retracing the footsteps of Holmes and Watson. The guide was Jahmad, known as Johnny, whose great-grandfather was an army surgeon with the British force in 1880. His name was John H. Watson!

C8134. Katz, Robert S. "Watson's Wound Revisited," PITP, No. 2 (February 17, 1987), 1-4.

"He resorted to the use of euphemism in order to describe his wound. Rather than think about his injured shoulder, he called it his 'leg'. Any means of avoiding mention of the site of his discomfort might spare him another attack."

C8135. Lesh, Richard D. "Watson, Come Here; I Want You: In Afghanistan," NZI, 2, No. 1 (August 1992), 76-79.

Reprinted from BSJ, September 1964 (DA2801).

C8136. Levitt, Mark. "John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers," PP, 4, No. 4 (December 1982), 30-35.

A brief history of the regiment and the reasons why Watson chose to join it; e.g., its reputation for a ready pawky wit and its history, dating back to 1674 when it was called "Lord Clare's Irish Regiment." Much to Watson's sorrow and our dismay, the old regiment became part of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968.

C8137. McCabe, John C. "Nail That `Jezail,'" Illustration by William Dickinson. The Woods-Runner, No. 46 (January 1984), back cover.

On the correct pronunciation of "jezail." According to a verse by Rudyard Kipling, quoted therein, "jezail" rhymes with "defile," not "nail" as is commonly assumed by Sherlockians.

C8138. McCabe, John C. "Pronouncing `Jezail,' or Have We Been Kippled All of These Years?" AC, No. 1 (February 1986), 4; No. 2 (April 1986), 5; No. 3 (June 1986), 4-5. (Thesis No. 1)

With rebuttals by William D. Jenkins, Robert W. Hahn, Richard D. Lesh, and John C. McCabe.

C8139. Moore, Helen and Richard. "In Search of the Gallant Murray," CH, 16, No. 3 (Spring 1993), 3-8.

A search of The Register of the Victoria Cross reveals that Watson's orderly was Lance-Corporal James Murray.

C8140. Myatt, Frederick. The Royal Berkshire Regiment (The 49th/66th Regiment of Foot). London: Hamish Hamilton, [1968]. 136 p. illus. (Famous Regiments. Edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks)

A history of the Regiment, with mention of Watson at Maiwand (p. 65). The 66th Regiment of Foot fought in the battle on July 27, 1880, and in July 1881 the 66th became the 2nd Batallion of the Berkshires.

C8141. Parker, Pierson. "Jezail, Jezail," BSJ, 30, No. 2 (June 1980), 70-74.

"According to the Canonical facts contradicting Stud, Watson had a second period in India and Afghanistan where, attached to the Indian Army, he served longer than the first time, camped in various places, had some fun, did a spot of hunting, had little direct experience of battle, but did unhappily get struck in the leg by an Afghan's Jezail bullet."

C8142. Pratte, Pierre. "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Bull Pup," WW, 13, No. 3 (January 1991), 13-17.

A discussion of Watson's PTSD. Watson warns Holmes that he had a bull-pup (a bad temper), one of the symptoms he suffered as a result of the Afghan War.

C8143. Propp, Bill. "Doctor Watson's Wandering Wound," AC, No. 9 (June 1987), 5-8. (Thesis No. 11)

First published in The Woods-Runner, Fall 1973 (DB1242).

C8144. Purdon, Charles J. "The Curious Matter of Watson's Rank," CH, 14, No. 3 (Spring 1991), 13-14.

A survey of the ranks of commissioned officers in the Army Medical Department reveals that Watson's rank was that of a Surgeon rather than an Assistant Surgeon, as incorrectly changed by Doyle in Watson's manuscript.

C8145. Smith, Denis. "From Afghanistan to Newport Pagnell," The Sherlockian, 2, No. 1 (1988), 12-15.

An account of the author's discovery of an old military photograph of the "Orontes," the British troopship on which Watson returned to England. The photograph and accompanying description are reproduced in the article.

C8146. Stavert, Geoffrey. "A Three-Paragraph Problem: Dr. Watson's Military Service," SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 99-103. illus.

An attempt to resolve some of the uncertainties present in Watson's account of his military career, which he condensed into the first three paragraphs of Stud.

C8147. Thompson, J. "Watson's Uniform," The Ritual, No. 7 (Spring 1991), 5-6. illus.

"How Watson may have looked in his campaign kit and in the full dress uniform of the Army Medical Department."

C8148. Thornton, John P. "John H. Watson, M.D., and the Battle of Maiwand," LBCCSJ, No. 1 (February 1986), 1-6.

An informative account of the Maiwand Battle and the part Watson played in it.

C8149. -- A2814. Baker, Kate. "Re: Vampires," BSP, No. 41 (November 1968), 1-2.

Though seldom as colourful as their fictional counterparts, living vampires do exist and can be cured. The suspected Sussex vampire proved to be nothing of the sort; still, had it been otherwise, Sherlock Holmes would have found a highly intriguing case."

C8150. -- B1246. Batory, Dana Martin. "The Conan Doyle Syndrome and The Sussex Vampire," BSJ, 26, No. 4 (December 1976), 227-228, 230.

Further evidence of what Samuel Rosenberg terms "the Conan Doyle Syndrome;" namely, when the written word, in any form, is accompanied by allusions to forbidden sexual behavior and subsequent severe punishment. The sexual pathology of vampirism and cannibalism, and the effeminacy of villain Jack Ferguson are all explored. "It is a distorted love," says Holmes, "a maniacal exaggerated love (Jack has) for you. ..."

C8151. -- B1247. O'Toole, L. M. "Analytic and Synthetic Approaches to Narrative Structure: Sherlock Holmes and `The Sussex Vampire,'" Style and Structure in Literature: Essays in the New Stylistics. Edited by Roger Fowler. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, [1975]. Chap. 5, p. 143-176.

Analysis of Suss reveals a narrative structure and language so stylized as to be almost a self-parody of the Canon. Two chronologies (the detective's and the client's) intersect to produce the unravelling sequence of the plot (with essential causality suppressed until the end). Watson provides the usual limited point of view.

Recent Russian research aims to generate the whole "Text" from a deep "Theme" via universal "Expression Devices." The triumph of reason over the irrational" (theme) is here realized by an oxymoron structure at levels of plot, character, and language.

C8152. -- B1248. Scheideman, J. W. "The Tension Between Fact and Fancy," VH, 8, No. 2 (April 1974), 2-3.

"Re: A letter to Sherlock Holmes from Morrison, Morrison & Dodd." (Subtitle)

C8153. Brodie, Robert N. "A Prospect of Mincing Lane," WW, 13, No. 2 (September 1990), 15-16.

A brief history of the London street on which the tea-brokers Ferguson & Muirhead were located.

C8154. Brusic, Robert. "Explorers's Reading Group Summary of `The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,'" Explorations, No. 20 (December 1992), 3-4.

Summary of a discussion by The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota.

C8155. Niver, Harold E. "The Dracula Legend and `The Sussex Vampire,'" Calabash, No. 4 (September 1983), 1-14.

The author, being both a Dracula devotee and a Sherlockian, has attempted to put forth the theory that Dracula did not die at the end of the Dracula story. By combining this premise with a new interpretation of Suss, new possibilities present themselves. Two of them are that Holmes was Van Helsing and Dracula was Moriarty.

C8156. Redmond, Chris. "Jacky Identified," SHJ, 16, No. 3 (Winter 1983), 96. (Wigmore Street Postbag)

Doyle, who told "a gruesome Sherlock Holmes tale" to Jacky Coogan during a visit to the Hollywood film studios on May 25, 1923, used the young actor's name for the "remarkable lad" in Suss: Jacky Ferguson.

C8157. Redmond, Chris. "Mr. Dodd's Client and Mr. Dodd," BSJ, 35, No. 2 (June 1985), 99-101.

A very early story by Doyle, "Selecting a Ghost" (London Society, December 1883), shows similarities to Watson's Suss.

C8158. Speck, Gordon R. "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire: Hoax, Jokes, and Hubris," BSM, No. 32 (Winter 1982), 7-9, 24.

The author reviews the commentaries of other writers and then propounds a theory of his own: in Suss, Holmes and the Literary Agent were having a bit of fun at Watson's expense.

C8159. Wood, Peter H. "V Is for Vampire and Other Bloody Notes," CH, 9, No. 2 (Winter 1985), 21-22.

Two sections comprise this note: the first provides an explanation of Holmes's indexing system as exemplified in Suss, by suggesting the entries were "see" and "see also" headings or possibly a keyword-in-context (KWIC) system; the second suggests three possible sources for Holmes's references to vampires, available from English publications or from Arminius Vambery.

C8160. -- A2815. De La Torre, Lillian. "The Problem of A.M. on Thor Bridge," BSJ [OS], 3, No. 4 (October 1948), 497-500.

An account of this case was first written up not by Watson but by Dr. Hans Gross in his System der Kriminalistik, published in 1893. Dr. Gross's distorted version of the story is included in Miss de la Torre's article.

C8161. -- A2816. Tinning, Herbert P. "A Reassessment of the Dating of `The Problem of Thor Bridge,'" DCC, 6, No. 4 (June 1970), 3-4.

----------. Rev. and enl. with title: "On the Dating of `The Problem of Thor Bridge,'" HO, 1, No. 1 (March 1971), 15-17.

An analysis of the chronology for this tale suggests that it began on Monday, October 4, 1886.

C8162. -- B1249. Dudley, W. E. "Who Was Neil Gibson?" BSJ, 25, No. 3 (September 1975), 173-176.

When we meet "the Gold King" in Thor we are reminded of other Canonical people such as Dr. Grimesby Roylott, Dr. Leon Sterndale, Dr. James Mortimer, and, finally, the arch villain himself, Professor James Moriarty. Roylott, Sterndale, et al, were but Moriarty in one of his disguises of the moment. Why then did the Master let him escape in the form of Neil Gibson? To save the Empire, of course. "The story is yet to be told of how Moriarty's financial genius prepared Britain for war and made the final victory possible."

C8163. -- B1250. Flaherty, Susan. "Thor Bridge -- The True Story?" NCTM, 1, No. 2 (Spring 1975), 7-8.

Mrs. Gibson (formerly Grace Dunbar!) reveals how she fooled Holmes into believing that Maria died by suicide rather than by murder.

C8164. -- B1251. Hahn, Robert W. "Recount, Please, Mr. Holmes," BSJ, 26, No. 4 (December 1976), 209-212.

The detective not only was outwitted by Irene Adler but also by Grace Dunbar. Two telling statements by Miss Dunbar and a reconstruction of the crime demonstrate that she murdered the wife of J. Neil Gibson and then arranged the evidence in such a way that Holmes would deduce the fake suicide as she had planned. This deception alters Holmes's admission to John Openshaw (Five) that he had been beaten four times -- "three times by men and once by a woman."

C8165. Batory, Dana Martin. "The Syndromic Problem of `Thor Bridge,'" SHJ, 14, No. 1 (Spring 1979), 12-14.

The essay analyzes what Samuel Rosenberg defines as the "Conan Doyle Syndrome"; namely, when the printed word, in any form, is accompanied by allusions to forbidden sexual behavior and subsequent severe punishment. The distorted sexual elements underlying the "love triangle" of Maria Gibson, Neil Gibson, and Grace Dunbar are examined. "I do not think," says Holmes, "that in our adventures we have ever come across a stranger example of what perverted love can bring about."

Letter: SHJ, 14, No. 2 (Winter 1979), 66 (J. B. Tatum).

C8166. Blau, Peter E. "It Is an Old Manuscript: The Adventure of the Second Chip," BSM, No. 26 (Summer 1981), 8-10.

A commentary on the sale of the manuscript The Problem of Thor Bridge at the auction house of Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., of London on April 29, 1981. The successful bidder was the London dealer Bernard Quaritch, who, acting for an unidentified non-Sherlockian American collector, paid £13,000 plus a 10% premium to the auction house, or about $31,000. Reproduced is a description of the MS from Christie's catalog and the title page which shows three cancelled titles: (?) Box, The Adventure of the Second Chip, and The Problem of Rushmere Bridge.

C8167. Cantor, Murray A. "Another Problem of Thor Bridge," PP (NS) (December 1988), 15-16.

We see here one of the Master's most brilliant deductions. Notwithstanding, he is most negative in his self-assessment. Something is bothering him. As clues, we note a number of references to science, medicine and, most specifically, dentistry. Conclusion: Holmes has had his missing canine tooth poorly replaced and is suffering from a thor bridge.

C8168. Dandrew, Thomas A. "The Varied Sexual Appetites of Mr. J. Neil Gibson," NS, No. 31 (June 5, 1993), 9-11.

Gibson's sexual conquests in this story included Maria Pinto, Marlow Bates, and Grace Dunbar!

C8169. Flynn, Patricia Dodd. "Gold King & Silver King," SMuse, 5, No. 3 (Winter 1981), 15-18.

Interesting similarities between J. Neil Gibson and another giant of America's mining camps, James G. Fair, one of the developers of Nevada's Comstock Lode. It is possible that Watson had heard of Fair's life and characters and in order to disguise the Gold King's real identity, he fell back on some of the attributes of the Silver King.

C8170. Lachtman, Howard L. "The Love-Song of J. Neil Gibson," Gaslight Publications, Catalogue No. 1 (Winter-Spring 1981), 3.

"Gibson's the name -- J.N. to you -- / though folks all call me Gold King. / I have merely to reach out my hand / and take what I want of anything."

C8171. Leonard, Patrick J., Sr. "Thor Bridge: A Mystery Remains," PP (NS), No. 11 (September 1991), 16-20.

Referring to an Austrian case reported in a German language "Handbook for the Criminal Investigator" by Hans Gross, with events similar to those in Thor. Leonard conjectures that Holmes had Thor solved before he left Baker Street because he may have had an active part in solving the earlier case.

C8172. Maginn, Dianne. "Suicide Disguised as Murder: A Munchausen-Related Event at Thor Bridge," BSJ, 39, No. 1 (March 1989), 13-15.

Maria Gibson, who took her own life and tried to get rid of her rival by attempting to disguise her crime and fasten a charge of murder upon Grace Dunbar, may have been a victim of Munchausen's Syndrome. Munchausen's behavior is characterized by deception, grandiosity, lying, hostility, and dependency.

C8173. McClure, Michael W. "No Problem with Thor Bridge," CHJ, 12, No. 2 (February 1990), 2-3.

Supports Doyle's creation of this tale during his spiritualistic years. His interest (in 1921) regarding the unsolved Luard death in 1908 provides an important clue to Thor being written during that period most Sherlockians claim he had no time to write of Holmes. Many claim that these later cases are inferior in quality and were probably rejected tales Doyle resurrected to fund his new religion. His use of the Phillimore name to honor the Secretary of the London Spiritualistic Alliance provides the final proof to a later date for this excellent mystery which shows both men in good form.

C8174. Morrison, G. Arthur. "Some Shallow Thoughts on the Deep Problem of Thor Bridge," WW, 11, No. 1 (May 1988), 13-15.

This article raises objections to the Canonical interpretations of the mark on the balustrade and other clues, and presents an alternate plot for Thor. Calculations of impact effects and trajectory are given, suggesting that Watson concealed the truth: a romance between Bates and Miss Dunbar and a resulting violent confrontation.

C8175. Schweickert, William P. "Doyle's Problem at Thor Bridge," PP, 3, No. 3 (1981), 21-24.

Points out some interesting similarities between the love triangle of Neil Gibson, his wife Maria, and the governess Grace Dunbar, and the relationship between Doyle, his wife Louise (known as Touie), and Jean Leckie, his second wife.

C8176. Silverstein, Albert, ed. "The Cornish Horrors Descend on Thor Bridge," BSJ, 30, No. 3 (September 1980), 136-140.

Three alternate solutions to the peculiar death of Mrs. J. Neil Gibson, by Jack Kavanagh, Jack Miller, and Robert L. Fish.

C8177. Speck, Gordon R. "A Question of Failure: Thor Bridge," CHJ, 7, No. 7 (July 1985), 3.

"If all men failed only as Holmes fails, mankind would sparkle like the Hope diamond."

C8178. Weller, Philip. "Over the Alps with Holmes," The Tri-Metallic Questions. 1991. p. 50-52. illus.

An examination of possible railway routes used in Thor.

C8179. -- A2817. Holland, Glenn. "A Left-Handed Defense of `The Three Gables,'" BSP, No. 45 (March 1969), 2-4.

An incredible suggestion that Holmes's uncharacteristic behavior in this story can be attributed to an inebriated condition.

C8180. -- A2818. Rhode, Franklin. "Langdale Pike and Steve Dixie: Two Cases of Identity," BSJ, 20, No. 1 (March 1970), 17-20.

Langdale Pike, a journalistic friend and confidant of Holmes, is identified as George R. Sims; and Steve Dixie, the Negro bruiser, as an acquaintance of Sims.

C8181. -- B1252. Lapinskas, Barbara A. "The Worst Story in the Canon," BSJ, 27, No. 3 (September 1977), 147.

Holmes's contemptuous treatment of Steve Dixie and Susan Stockdale and his deference toward Isadore Klein are embarrassments to all loyal Sherlockians.

Winner of the short essay contest on the worst story in the Canon.

C8182. -- B1253. [Lowndes, Robert A. W.] "Mr. Dakin's `Spurious Cases': No. 1. The Three Gables" SS, 2, No. 4 (October 1976), 4-6.

"Langdale Pike" defends 3Gab against the criticisms of D. Martin Dakin in A Sherlock Holmes Commentary.

C8183. -- B1254. Pond, Walter. "A Plea for Respect for the Canon: With Some Observations on The Three Gables," BSJ, 28, No. 1 (March 1978), 41-42.

The author deplores the tendency of some commentators to reject stories in the Canon as spurious on the basis of their own notions of ethics or plausibility. The reasons are generally without merit. As an example, he examines in detail the attacks upon 3Gab, shows them to be baseless, and concludes that the story is an authentic account by Watson.

C8184. Cantor, Murray A. "The Eternal Feminine Rides Again," BSM, No. 70 (Summer 1992), 25-27.

In two tales -- 3Gab and Seco -- Holmes not only compounds a felony, but may be making future misdeeds possible. Women provide the motive in both. Further, in 3Gab he tells Isadora Klein just the opposite of what he really means. An explanation is suggested.

C8185. Doyle, Michael. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," CH, 15, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 9-13.

Compares women antagonists in "The Parasite" (1894) and 3Gab (1926).

C8186. Lachtman, Howard L. "Isadora, Duchess of Lomond," BSJ, 32, No. 3 (September 1982), 178.

A poem in seven stanzas.

"Isadora received her beaux in exotic half-dark / (Not one of those Three Gables was a Clark). / She gave up sultry Pernambuco / To drive Dashing Doug cuckoo / And even gave cold Holmes a spark."

C8187. McClure, Michael W. "Inquiring Minds Want to Know," CHJ, 12, No. 10 (October 1990), 2-3.

A review of the various sources of information available to Holmes, and to what extent he revealed such data to Langdale Pike. It is suggested that by gleaning facts from the "agony columns" and other sources, Holmes used Pike as his unofficial agent, allowing Pike to reap the rewards while "blowing the whistle" on illicit endeavour that would otherwise fall beneath the attention of the official police force.

C8188. Pollack, Dorothy Belle. "The Plight of Isadora," SMuse, 11, No. 1 (Autumn 1992), inside front and back covers.

"I'm from South American shores, / Descended from Conquistadors, / And I married the Sugar King Klein."

C8189. Pollack, Dorothy Belle. "Reflections on Langdale Pike," SMuse, 10, No. 3 (Spring 1992), inside front cover.

"This chap can handle / All matters relating / To `social scandal.' / He's the `human book / of reference'. In re / The London life, / He's nonpareil."

C8190. Rosenberg, Edgar S. "It Started with a Bang," BSJ, 33, No. 2 (June 1983), 83-85.

A tale in verse.

C8191. -- A2819. McLauchlin, Russell. "Apocryphal?" BSJ [OS], 1, No. 4 (October 1946), 475-476.

3Gar is primarily a rewriting of RedH and, therefore, should be included in the Apocrypha rather than the Canon.

C8192. -- A2820. Redmond, Chris. "Thoughts on The Three Garridebs," BSP, No. 24 (June 1967), 4.

"`It may have been a comedy, it may have been a tragedy.'"

C8193. -- A2821. Rosenberger, Edgar S. "Bats in His Belfry," BSJ, 9, No. 1 (January 1959), 38-40.

A tale in verse.

C8194. -- B1255. Nash, Ogden. "Never Mind the Overcoat, Button Up That Lip," The New Yorker, 30, No. 23 (July 24, 1954), 18.

----------. ----------, You Can't Get There from Here. Drawings by Maurice Sendak. Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., [1957]. p. 105-106.

Hardcover and paperback edition.

----------. ----------, Verses from 1929 On. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., [1959]. p. 496-497.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: The Modern Library, [c. 1959]. p. 496-497.

"I have better things to talk about than fortune hunters who harry debs; / The causerie in my coterie is of how come Sir Arthur rewrote `The Red-headed League' under the title of `The Adventure of the Three Garridebs.'"

C8195. -- B1256. Shaw, John Bennett. "Musings on `The Adventure of the Three Garridebs,'" HO, 2, No. 1 (January 1972), 6-7.

C8196. The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads About the Mighty Casey. With an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. xiii, 206 p. illus.

----------. 2nd ed. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, [1984]. xiii, 219 p. illus.

Includes a reference to Moorville (p. 177; 2nd ed., p. 179) and to James Winter, an alias of "Killer" Evans' (p. 182; 2nd ed., p. 184).

C8197. DeStefano, Jim. "A Letter to Sherlock Holmes," PP, 4, No. 2 (June 1982), 14-16.

A letter dated October 27, 1924 from "Lysander Starr II," uncovered by DeStefano, in which he explains that there really was a Dr. Lysander Starr of Topeka, Kansas.

C8198. Frick, Willis G. "An Interview with Nathan Garrideb," The Telegraph, 2, No. 1 (October 1992), 7-12.

The antiquarian sets the record straight on the case that Holmes investigated for him.

C8199. Groves, Derham. "Nathan Garrideb and Mechanics' Institutes," YS, No. 7 (March 1980), 3-4.

----------. ----------, GOI, No. 1 (1981), 2-5.

Nathan Garrideb probably was a member of the Manchester Mechanics' Institute. Perhaps he grew up in Manchester, and when he was five or six years old, he knew Mary Barton's surrogate grandfather, Job Legh (Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell).

C8200. Haddon-MacRoberts, M. "The Mystery of the Third Plaster Skull," SHJ, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1984), 113.

Watson described three plaster skulls in Nathan Garrideb's rooms in 1902. He said they were Neanderthal, Heidelberg, and Cro-Magnon. However, Heidelberg was not discovered until 1907. The three skulls were probably Java Man, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon.

C8201. Higgins, W. W. "Some Further Notes on the Garridebs," P&D, No. 154 (July 1991), 4-5.

This is an examination of some possible origins for the name of Garrideb that tend to explain the lack of persons of that name outside the Canonical tales. It also includes the author's facetious illustrations of three putative Garridebs.

C8202. Holly, Raymond L. "Acknowledging the Unacknowledged," DT, No. 8 (Summer 1990), 4-10.

A comparison between Watson's Nathan Garrideb and Doyle's Brigadier Gerard.

C8203. Holly, Raymond L. "A Garrideb Chronology," CHJ, 4, No. 9 (September 1982), 2.

Begins with the birth of Étienne Gerard in 1782 and ends with the publication of the adventure in Collier's on October 25, 1924.

C8204. Holly, Raymond L. "The Three Real Garridebs," BSM, No. 50 (Summer 1987), 23-26.

Nathan Garrideb and his brother were the legitimate children of the illegitimate son of Brigadier Gerard. These three were the only male descendants of the gallant Brigadier.

C8205. Rothman, Steven. "How Come a Bull Ring? A Brief Investigation," BSJ, 35, No. 3 (September 1985), 170-171 .

Explores the question posed by Christopher Morley about why Manchester has a Bull Ring. Attributes it to the ancient sport of bull baiting.

C8206. Schweickert, William. ("Lysander Starr"), PP, 2, No. 2 (1979), 9. (Poet's Page)

"Twinkle twinkle Lysander Starr / How we wonder who you are. / Doctor, Mayor of Topeka, Kan. / Are you just a mythical man?"

C8207. Schweickert, William. "Twinkle, Twinkle Lysander Starr, How I Wonder Who You Are," Q£$, 7, No. 3 (August 1986), 41-43.

Notes the remarkable similarity between the names of Dr. Lysander Starr (3Gar) and Col. Lysander Stark (Engr), both of whom must have been named after Dr. Leander Starr Jameson.

C8208. Speck, Gordon R. "A Note on the American Man of Affairs," WW, 11, No. 2 (September 1988), 5-6.

The American man of affairs is satirized through the character of John Garrideb, alias "Killer" Evans, as stupid, dangerous, seedy, and scheming.

C8209. Thomalen, Robert E. "The Case of the Missing Year," PP, 1, No. 5 (October 1978), 14-17.

An exegetical work showing how Watson miscalculated the number of years covered in 3Gar.

C8210. -- A2822. Bristowe, W. S. "The Three Students in Limelight, Electric Light and Daylight," SHJ, 3, No. 2 (Winter 1956), 2-5.

An examination of some unsolved problems in this tale, including recollections of the author's bit part in the 1923 film version.

C8211. -- A2823. Hall, Trevor H. "Sherlock Holmes and Andrew Lang," The Late Mr. Sherlock Holmes & Other Literary Studies. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., [1971