C10193. -- A4272. -- B1660. Brend, Gavin. "The Key to the Story Titles," SHJ, 1, No. 2 (September 1952), 6.

----------. ----------, SHJ, 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 49.

A poetic thanks to Dr. Christ "for giving us this helpful list."

C10194. -- B1661. Christ, Jay Finley. "Key to the Story Names," An Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. New York: Argus Books; Summit, N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1947. [unpaged]

----------. ----------, SHJ, 1, No. 1 (May 1952), 4, No. 4 (Spring 1960); 9, No. 1 (Winter 1968), 1-2; 12, No. 2 (Winter 1975), 49.

Four-letter abbreviations to the sixty Canonical tales. Professor Christ's book is dedicated to "Sherlock Holmes, master accumulator of data."

C10195. -- B1662. Stavert, Geoffrey. "The Quadrilateral Canon," SHJ, 12, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1976), 114. (Wigmore Street Postbag)

Finds fault with some of Dr. Christ's four letter abbreviations to the Canonical titles.

C10196. Christ, Jay Finley. "Key to Story Names," BSJ, 40, No. 1 (March 1990), 38.

The four-letter abbreviations for the sixty stories are reprinted, with the following note: "The Christ abbreviations are to be used parenthetically only, as a substitute for footnotes. When Canonical story titles are used in an article's text, they should be written out in full and italicized, as in A Scandal in Bohemia."

C10197. Christ, Jay Finley, and The Franco-Midland Hardware Company. "Christ and Company Codes," BSPB, No. 13 (January 1993), inside back cover.

Professor Christ's standard four-letter abbreviations for the short stories are supplemented with five-letter abbreviations for the long stories and the collections.

C10198. Mosier, Alan S. "Contents of Box Revealed!" Q£$, 1, No. 3 (July 3, 1980), 37-40.

Three-letter abbreviations for some parodies and pastiches as well as for a number of unpublished cases not listed by Chris Redmond (DA4378).

C10199. Oram, Ed. "Brief Cases," Canonfire, 3, No. 2 (June 1985), 2.

An analysis of abbreviations of the Canonical titles.

C10200. Utechin, Nicholas. "The Conventional Abbreviations," SHJ, 20, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 113-114.

An editorial on Jay Finley Christ's four-letter abbreviations and Gary L. Heiselberg's revised set of Canonical codes.

Letters: SHJ, 21, No. 1 (Winter 1992), 31-32 (Kay Rumble; Don Redmond; Eric Monohan; Thomas Drucker; Patrick J. Leonard; Alan Olding; Christopher Roden and Barbara Alder; J.C.B. Abraham; Robert C. Burr).

C10201. Kluk, Dennis S. "Sherlockian Addresses," MM, No. 23 (February 1981), 3.

A numerical listing of addresses, beginning with 3 Lauriston Gardens and ending with 427 Park Lane.

C10202. Berry, F. Clifton. "Holmes and Aviation," SHJ, 18, No. 2 (Summer 1987), 52-53.

"The evidence so far uncovered suggests that Holmes was aware of aeronautical matters at a seminal time. His precise contributions to British aviation have not yet been found. However, he certainly smashed Von Bork's network, with its assignment on aeroplanes. Thus, Holmes denied the Kaiser vital information about the Royal Flying Corps, contributing to the Allies' eventual success in the air in World War I."

C10203. -- A3593. Kirby, Percival R. "Sherlock Holmes and South Africa," SHJ, 9, No. 1 (Winter 1968), 6-10.

Occasions on which this country plays a part in the tales.

C10204. -- A4078. Lindfors, Bernth. "A Shadow of Sherlock Holmes in Tanzania," BSJ, 17, No. 1 (March 1967), 42-44.

A brief account of Taraji H. H. Katalambula's Swahili novel Simu ya Kifo (DA1781) in which shades of Sherlock Holmes can be glimpsed.

C10205. -- A3594. Lindfors, Bernth. "Sherlock Holmes in Africa. Part I. Kenya," BSJ, 15, No. 2 (June 1965), 67-70.

A teacher introduces the Sacred Writings to African secondary school boys in Kenya.

C10206. -- A4079. Lindfors, Bernth. "Sherlock Holmes in Africa. Part II. Zanzibar," BSJ, 15, No. 2 (June 1965), 70-74.

----------. "Sherlock's Shade at Work in Zanzibar," East African Standard (September 3, 1965).

A comparison between Muhammed Said Abdulla's Mzimu wa Watu wa Kale (DA1780) and the Canonical tales.

C10207. Akeroyd, Alan. "Sherlock Holmes and Native African Culture," BSN, 4, No. 1 (Hilary Term 1987), 4.

Investigates the influences of the Dark Continent on the world of the Canon.

C10208. -- A4329. Blake, S. F. "`The Game Is Afoot,' BSJ, 9, No. 4 (October 1959), 205-207.

The "game" (Abbe) must be a carnivorous beast--murderous and afoot. The tiger not only provides Watson's favorite animal simile or metaphor, but is also always a symbol of vigor, audacity, or violence.

C10209. -- A4337. Robinson, Ernest F. "Comparative Zoology of Baker Street," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 4 (October 1947), 401-408.

A study of the zoological similes used in describing some of the characters.

C10210. -- B1663. Anderson, Poul. "The Hound of Hell and the Hound of Heaven," BSJ, 26, No. 2 (June 1977), 93-95.

Not only do dogs occur in the Canon, but people therein are also sometimes likened to them. As real animal or symbol, a dog may be a devoted companion like Watson, a cur, or a relentlessly pursuing hunter. Holmes is compared to the last of these, and specifically to the sleuth-hound.

C10211. -- B1664. Coleman, Arthur. "The Game's Afoot: Animal Imagery in the Sacred Writings," BSJ, 22, No. 4 (December 1972), 222-225.

"The game's afoot" refers to the use of animal images in the Canon. Some 90 animals, reptiles, birds, and insects serve in more than 200 instances as figurative comparisons to human appearances, attitudes, and actions to suggest strongly the resemblance of men to beasts. This penchant of Holmes and Watson in particular to judge people in animal terms suggests that the Victorian point of view toward mankind was profoundly affected by Darwin's theory of evolution.

See also Houn, Silv, Watson -- Bull Pup

Birds and Birding, Fish and Fishing, Insects

C10212. -- A3595. Bridgeman, Roger. "Horses and Hounds," SHJ, 9, No. 2 (Summer 1969), 59-61.

An examination of Holmes's knowledge of horses and dogs suggests that he spent his early years in the country and not in London as Bernard Davies has proposed (DA2871).

C10213. -- A3596. Cole, Eleanor S. "Holmes, Watson and the K-9's," BSJ, 1, No. 1 (January 1951), 25-29.

A discussion of the dogs contacted by Holmes and Watson.

C10214. -- A3597. Ewing, Adelaide P., and Robert R. Pattrick. "A Sherlockian Zoo," West by One and by One. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. p. 113-124.

A complete listing of all the creatures appearing in the pages of the Canon.

C10215. -- A3598. "Grimesby Roylott Rides Again?" The Times (October 14, 1960), 15.

----------, CPBook, 2, Nos. 5-6 (Summer-Fall 1965), 90.

On the use of animals as accomplices, including Roylott's swamp adder and Stapleton's hound.

C10216. -- A3599. Holstein, L. S. "Holmes and Equus Caballus," BSJ, 20, No. 2 (June 1970), 112-116.

After reviewing his equestrian feats, attainments, and associations, the author advances the opinion that the Master's interest in horses "far exceeded and was broader and more profound than the generally accepted views amongst most devotees."

C10217. -- A3600. "I Am a Dog-Fancier Myself (Shos)," BSCL, No. 8 (1970), 9-11; No. 9 (1971), 24.

Contents: Toby (Sign). -- Pompey (Miss).

Quotations "for the lovers of our four-legged Sherlockian friends."

C10218. -- A3601. Jenkins, William D. "A Humiliation of Lions," BSJ, 12, No. 4 (December 1962), 228-235.

An investigation of the Canon reveals mostly negative references to cats, suggesting that Watson was an ailurophobe.

C10219. -- A3602. Lauritzen, Henry. Holmes og Heste. [Holmes and Horses.] Aalborg, [Denmark: Silkeborg Bogtrykker], 1959. 29 p. illus.

Limited to 313 numbered copies.

Published in the centenary year of Conan Doyle and the Danish Jockey Club, this booklet deals with all kinds of horses in the Canon, especially the thoroughbreds Silver Blaze (identified with Common) and Shoscombe Prince.

C10220. -- A3603. Lauterbach, Charles E. "His Last Bow-Wow," Baker Street Ballads. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, March 1971.] p. 15-16.

"Now there's a galaxy of pooches / As strange as one could name; / They crossed the path of Sherlock Holmes / And made the Hall of Fame."

C10221. -- A3604. Palmer, Stuart. "Notes on Certain Evidences of Caniphobia in Mr. Sherlock Holmes and His Associates," BSJ, 5, No. 4 (October 1955), 197-204.

An essay on the psychological implications of Holmes's relations with the canine species.

C10222. -- A3605. "Sherlock Holmes' Animals," DVM Newsmagazine of Veterinary Medicine, 2, No. 2 (February 1970), 6-8, 11. illus.

Excerpts from Houn, Stud, Silv, Veil, and Spec; with brief commentaries.

C10223. -- A3606. Solovay, Ethel F. "Holmes Goes to the Dogs!" BSJ [OS], 3, No. 4 (October 1948), 493-496.

A study of the Master's four-footed aides.

C10224. -- A3607. Van Liere, Edward J. "Dogs and Sherlock Holmes," Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, 22, No. 4 (June 1948), 114-116.

----------. ----------, A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes. New York: Vantage Press, [1959]. p. 48-53.

"To those interested in animals, it is gratifying to know that two of the most popular heroes of detective fiction--Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson--both loved dogs. They did not like them in a sickly, sentimental sense, but rather with a genuine, masculine affection. They regarded them as dogs, not as human beings, and emphasized and respected their canine personalities. I am sure every self-respecting dog would want to be so regarded."

C10225. -- A3608. Van Liere, Edward J. "The Zoological Doctor Watson," A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes. New York: Vantage Press, [1959]. p. 96-101.

Frequent allusions to animal life in the tales are noted.

C10226. -- A3609. Willson, Robert F. "The Veterinary Holmes," BSJ, 8, No. 1 (January 1958), 33-35.

A contention that the education he received in veterinary medicine "started him on the road to becoming the world's greatest criminal investigator."

C10227. -- B1665. Curjel, Harald. "Sherlock Holmes and His World of Dogs," The Field (February 6, 1969), 229, 231. illus.

"An admirer forestalls him with a small monograph on canines good and bad." (Subtitle)

C10228. -- B1666. "For the Commonplace Book," SHJ, 13, No. 1 (Winter 1976), 23.

Correspondence, reprinted from issues of the Oxford Mail (February and March 1976), concerning Holmes and dogs. The letters were written by John Gillard Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, and Nicholas Utechin.

C10229. -- B1667. Huston, Sigrid. "Toby," FFTN, 5, No. 7 (March 1976), 4-5.

Traces the canine heritage of Sherman's dog (Sign).

C10230. -- B1668. Puhl, Gayle Lang. "Hogs, Holmes and Harpoons," DCC, 9, No. 3 (April 1973), 4-8.

References and allusions to pigs in the Sacred Writings.

C10231. -- B1669. Rosenblatt, Ronald. "Some Notes Towards the Identity of Fauna in the Holmes Canon," JAMS, 1, No. 3 (Fall 1972), 2-10. illus.

"With especial reference to `The Adventure of the Speckled Band,' The Adventure of the Lion's Mane,' and some speculations on the giant rat of Sumatra." (Subtitle)

C10232. Aig, Marlene. "Canonical Cats," PP (NS), No. 7 (September 1990), 11-12.

Examines the question of why cats are limited in the Canon, while so prevalent in 19th-century English life.

C10233. Ailiff, Sandra J. "The Curious Incident of the Canines in the Canon," PITP, No. 2 (February 17, 1987), 23-28.

A look at Holmes's relationship with dogs.

C10234. Axelrad, Arthur M. "The True History of Berkshire Bobbie," DB, 3 (October 13, 1982), 3-6. illus.

Berkshire Bobbie's history (wounded at Maiwand, July 27, 1880; decorated by Queen Victoria, June 1881; and accidentally killed October 13, 1882) and present whereabouts (the new Regimental Museum, Salisbury). Transcriptions of the texts in the display case, including the long narrative on the Battle and its aftermath.

C10235. Babur, Agha. "Charmed I'm Sure," PP (NS), No. 3 (September 1989), 7-8.

Describes a special birthday gift for the Master, while explicating the lore and knowledge of the snake charmers of Asia.

C10236. Broxon, Mildred Downey "Cats in the Canon ... Cats on the Tiles," BCA, No. 1 (December 1983), 9-10.

Examines Holmes's obvious affinity for cats, as evidenced by the feline aspects of his nature, and investigates whether or not there was a cat at Baker Street or, perhaps later, in Sussex. Other appearances of cats in the Canon are noted and contrasted with the Canonical treatment of dogs.

C10237. Byerly, Ann. "Of Moles and Men," BSM, No. 23 (Fall 1980), 19-20.

The four-and-a-half references, quoted therein, to moles in the Canon reveal that Holmes and Watson saw these furry creatures exactly for the destructive, short-sighted, stupid, insignificant vermin that they are.

C10238. Crakes, Will. "Dogs Detected," Beaten's, No. 4 (1986), 5.

A brief comment on the thirteen dogs in the Canon.

C10239. Geyer, Jackie. "The Ten, or Slightly More, Most Memorable Animals in the Sherlockian Canon," CH, 5, No. 3 (Spring 1982), 12-14.

A list and description of the thirteen "ten most memorable Canonical animals," not in order of importance: Cyanea capillata (Lion), The Speckled Band, Teddy (Croo), Sahara King (Veil), Pompey (Miss), Bull-terrier (Glor), The Shoscombe animals, The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Suss), Silver Blaze, The dog in the night-time (Silv), Carlo (Copp), The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Toby (Sign).

C10240. Harrison, Michael. Cynological Mr. Holmes: Conanical Canines Considered. [New York]: Magico Magazine, [1985]. 60 p. illus.

"Dog-lore and dog-love in the Sherlockian Saga." (Subtitle)

Trade edition and limited edition of 60 numbered and signed copies.

Review: BSM, No. 43 (Autumn 1985), 41-42 (Francine Morris Swift).

C10241. Holly, Raymond L. "More About Toby," CHJ, 6, No. 1 (January 1984), 3-4.

Traces the name of old Sherman's dog in Sign from Punch back to the Bible.

C10242. Jewell, Donald Girard. Canonical Cats. Westminster, Md.: Pinchin Lane Press, 1992. 34 p. illus. (The Sherlock Holmes Natural History Series, 3)

Limited to 500 numbered copies.

"A monograph on felines in the time of Sherlock Holmes." (Subtitle)

C10243. Lauritzen, Henry. "Holmes og Hunde" ("Holmes and Dogs"), Aarsmødet (January 1986).

----------. ----------, Sherlockiana, 31, Nr. 2-3 (1986), 14-15.

C10244. Maynard, Julie. "101 Canonical Canines," BC, 7, No. 5 (May 1990), 14. illus.

"That's approximately how many actual, real-for-real, non-metaphorical dogs Watson has incorporated in the Saga: 101 ... Most mystery stories contain violence -- and the Sherlock Holmes Saga is no different. What may be unusual, however, is the percentage of mayhem carried out by -- and against -- Man's Best Friend."

C10245. "Mini-Project Number Five -- Report," NBSPB, No. 14 (April 1993), 16.

"Canine Considerations," NBSPB, No. 15 (July 1993), 21-22.

Responses to the Mini-Project Five by Teresa Doheney and Brian Scrivener concerning the dogs mentioned in the Canon. Eighteen dogs are listed and discussed in order of importance.

C10246. Powis, Earl of. "Sherlock Holmes and Dogs," SHJ, 15, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 5-7.

An inventory of seventeen or eighteen Canonical dogs, not counting Sherman's forty-three, with which he threatened Watson (Sign).

C10247. Rawlings, Marmey. "The Bark of a True Newfoundlander," CH, 12, No. 3 (Spring 1989), 29-31.

Relates some of the deeds this great dog has done.

C10248. Rawlings, Marmey. "What Holmes Had Heard About the Noble Dog," CH, 7, No. 2 (December 1983), 25-26. illus.

Comments on the Newfoundland dog, the only uniquely Canadian animal that appears in two Canonical stories (Sign and Cree).

C10249. Schweickert, William P. "They Also Serve ... (An Animal Story)," PP, 3, No. 1 (1980), 29-32.

Briefly discusses some of the animals who played important roles in Holmes's cases; e.g., the swamp adder, the jellyfish, the hound, Silver Blaze, Toby, the goose, Mrs. Hudson's terrier, and the dog that did nothing in the nighttime.

C10250. Spa, Hans A. "Slangen in de Canon: A Study in Ophiology," BJ (April 1981), 16-19. illus.

"Snakes in the Canon."

C10251. Tietjen, Sari B. "Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Their Canine Friends," Illustrations by Carol Peligian. Pure-Bred Dogs/American Kennel Gazette, 98, No. 9 (September 1981), 42-46.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 6, No. 1 (March 1983), 543-544.

"Suspense writers have long used the dog as a major character to unravel the mystery and Sherlock Holmes' creator was no exception. Here are a baker's dozen plots to whet your appetite."

C10252. Todd, Larrie. "Dogs and the Great Detective," Gazette (December 1987), 37-40.

"In addition to his crack detective Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created memorable canine characters."

C10253. Tremain, Ruthven. The Animals' Who's Who. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1982]. xv, 335 p. illus.

----------. ----------. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1983] xv, 335 p. illus.

"1,146 celebrated animals in history, popular culture, literature, & lore," with entries for Carlo (Copp), Carlo (Suss), the Hound of the Baskervilles, Silver Blaze, and Toby. A fascinating and valuable reference work.

C10254. Waterhouse, William C. "Holmes and the Buffalo," BSJ, 32, No. 1 (March 1982), 48-49.

It is plausible that Holmes's picture of buffalo and their wallowing, mentioned in both Stud and Bosc, was acquired from his reading of T. B. Macaulay's "Lay of the Battle of the Lake Regillus" in which there is a reference to "buffaloes wallowing."

C10255. Williams, Newton M. "How About Toby?" CHJ, 5, No. 12 (December 1983), 3.

Old Sherman's Toby got his name from Mr. Punch's Toby as he appeared on the cover of Punch for more than a century. The picture was the work of Richard Doyle, the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

C10256. Key, Jack D., and Alvin E. Rodin. Aphorisms of Sherlock Holmes: Two Hundred Selections Collected from the Canonical Writings. Beavercreek, Ohio: KeyRod Literary Enterprises, 1987. [52] p.

Cover illustration by Geo. Hutchinson for the London 1891 edition of Stud.

A centennial commemorative keepsake edition, limited to 550 numbered copies.

Each section is listed under the title of the adventure in which it appears. There is an index of the subject matter of these aphorisms.

Review: SHR, 1, Nos. 3-4 (1987), 111-112 (Steven T. Doyle).

C10257. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jack D. Key. "Aphorisms in Matthew Arnold and Arthur Conan Doyle," CH, 12, No. 4 (Summer 1989), 26-29.

The Canonical tales and the essays of Matthew Arnold both contain aphoristic statements that are similar in orientation. For example: Arnold -- "a serenity ... comes from having made order among ideas and harmonized them": Holmes -- "Things must be done decently and in order." (Reti) The aphorisms of Holmes are more succinct and to the point. Salvater has suggested that the philosopher and detective are seeking solutions to enigmas -- Why? Who? How? Thus the aphoristic material in fictional works, even as popular as those of Doyle, provide positive moral and intellectual precepts, as do the philosophical essays of Matthew Arnold.

C10258. -- A3610. Blakeney, T. S. "Widening the Canon," SHJ, 8, No. 4 (Summer 1968), 108-111; 9, No. 1 (Winter 1968), 10-13.

A scholarly discussion of "those Doylean writings that appear to have some Holmesian association."

C10259. -- A3611. Christ, Jay Finley. "Sherlock and Two Impostors," Illustrious Client's Second Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1949.] p. 19-25.

A critical essay on Lost and ManW.

C10260. -- A3612. Christopher, J. R. "The Case of the Vanishing Locomotives, or A Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad," The Armchair Detective, 1, No. 2 (January 1968), 56-58.

A discussion of three tales that involve the disappearance of a moving train from its tracks: "The Lost Special," by Arthur Conan Doyle; "The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive," by August Derleth; and "Snowball in July," by Ellery Queen.

C10261. -- A3613. Donegall, Lord. "Introduction, Including Summaries of the Perplexing Literary Problems About the Two Stories," The Sherlockian Doyle. [Culver City, Calif.: Luther Norris, October 1968.] p. 1-13.

----------. An adaptation with title: "Lost and ManW," SHJ, 9, No. 3 (Winter 1969), 89-94.

"A review of the evidence in favour of and in opposition to the Canonization of `The Lost Special' and `The Man with the Watches.'"

C10262. -- A3614. Folsom, Henry T. "`It Is My Business to Follow the Details of Continental Crime,'" BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 132-136.

An explanation of why Holmes was unwilling to solve the mystery of the disappearing train in Lost.

C10263. -- A3615. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "The Case of Two Literary Doctors," SHJ, 9, No. 3 (Winter 1969), 95-96.

Watson furnished Doyle with material from several of Holmes's unpublished cases. The cases were then disguised and made into stories by the two doctors and published in Round the Fire Stories.

C10264. -- A3616. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "Sherlock Holmes Writes to the Papers," SHJ, 3, No. 1 (Summer 1956), 11, 14.

"In neither case [Lost, ManW] is Mr. Holmes mentioned by name, but the accounts of each contain letters to the public press which could not possibly come from any other hand."

C10265. -- A3617. Hedgegrove, Quentin. "The Case Against," SHJ, 3, No. 1 (Summer 1956), 15-16.

A denial that Holmes was the correspondent in Lost and ManW.

C10266. -- A3618. Helling, Cornelis. "A Sequel to Completing the Canon," SHJ, 6, No. 2 (Spring 1963), 55.

Two items are suggested in addition to those recommended by Richard (DA3626).

C10267. -- A3619. Jenkins, William D. "A la Recherche du Train Perdu," BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 137-143, 189.

"The Lost Special" constitutes the prologue in a Canonical trilogy: the substantive case being "The Matter of Supreme Importance to the French Government"; the epilogue, "The Case of the Papers of ex-President Murillo." Interestingly enough, the authorship of the famous letter to The Times, quoted in Lost, is ascribed to Watson, "an amateur reasoner," rather than to Holmes, "a professional reasoner."

C10268. -- A3620. McLauchlin, Russell. "A Grim Fairy Tale," BSJ, 3, No. 3 (July 1953), 160-161.

An apocryphal tale in verse of ManW.

C10269. -- A3621. Missal, Ruth R. "A Case of Identities," BSJ, 6, No. 4 (October 1956), 216-222.

The results of the author's preliminary research into the true identities of the Rochesterians in ManW.

C10270. -- A3622. Montgomery, James. "The Crown Diamond," The Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 35-48.

"A full and authoritative account of the origin and later adaptation of this pure corn from which `The Mazarin Stone' sprang full-panoplied." (Edgar W. Smith)

C10271. -- A3623. [Morley, Christopher.] "A Letter from Yoxley, Kent," Letters from Baker Street. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. [New York: The Pamphlet House, 1942.] p. 17-19.

A communication from Stanley Hopkins, O.B.E., shedding light on the proposal to subsume Lost and ManW into the Canon.

C10272. -- A3624. Morley, Christopher. "Studies on Baker Street," Streamlines. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. p. 261-263.

The suggestion is offered that no research in the Sherlockian lore is complete without reference to the apocryphal play The Speckled Band.

C10273. -- A3625. Morley, Christopher. "Two Suppressed Holmes Episodes," The Saturday Review of Literature, 10, No. 33 (March 3, 1934), 523. (The Bowling Green)

----------. ----------, Streamlines. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. p. 259-261.

----------. ----------, BSP, No. 23 (May 1967), 6.

A note on the anonymous letters in Lost and ManW.

C10274. -- A3626. Richard, Peter. "Completing the Canon," SHJ, 6, No. 1 (Winter 1962),10-14; 6, No. 3 (Winter 1963), 76-81; 6, No. 4 (Spring 1964), 114-115.

A listing of and commentary on what the author considers to be twelve additions to the accepted sixty adventures.

C10275. -- A3627. Schutz, Robert H. "The Further Writings of Dr. John H. Watson," BSJ [OS], 10, No. 4 (October 1960), 241-243.

Support is given to Jane Nightwork's assumption that Watson was also the author of Round the Red Lamp.

C10276. -- A3628. Smith, Edgar W. "By Way of Introduction," The Field Bazaar: A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Summit, N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1947. p. 7-10.

----------. ----------, The Daily Californian Weekly Magazine, 4, No. 9 (January 14, 1969), 11.

On the Apocrypha, and particularly "The Field Bazaar."

C10277. -- A3629. Smith, Edgar W., ed. Letters from Baker Street. [New York: The Pamphlet House, 1942.] 60 p.

Limited to 400 numbered copies, of which the first 200 are in a deluxe binding.

"A communication appearing in the London Times of July 3, 1890, from an amateur reasoner of some celebrity; and a communication appearing in the Daily Gazette in March or April, 1892, over the signature of a well-known criminal investigator. Together with the stories in which these letters are quoted: The Lost Special and The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Illuminated by a noteworthy communication from Stanley Hopkins, O.B.E., Chief Inspector C.I.D. (Retired), written and received through the good offices of Christopher Morley and further illuminated by a communication from the eminent Holmesian scholar Vincent Starrett." (Subtitle)

C10278. -- A3630. Starrett, Vincent. "A Letter from Chicago, Illinois," Letters from Baker Street. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. [New York: The Pamphlet House, 1942.] p. 57-58.

On the authorship of the letters written to the Times and the Daily Gazette.

C10279. -- B1670. Haines, Edward P. "The Apocryphal Books, or `Vas You Dere, Sherlie?'" Holmeswork, 6, No. 1 (January 1979), 9-12.

An analysis of the letters attributed to Holmes in ManW and Lost shows that he could not have written them. "Both tales are quite too UN-Sherlockian to merit further consideration. `Round the Fire Stories' is just the place for them and there they should forever remain."

C10280. -- B1671. Johnson, C. Arnold. "A Well-Known Criminal Investigator," MM, No. 8 (August 1978), 4-5.

The letter published in the Daily Gazette in 1892 (ManW) was a communication from Sherlock to Mycroft, who in turn relayed it to Mr. Barker (Reti) for publication over his name -- the name of "a well-known criminal investigator."

C10281. Austin, Bliss. "The Play's the Thing," BSM, No. 24 (Winter 1980), 1-10.

A scholarly examination of Doyle's plays, especially Sherlock Holmes (rewritten by William Gillette) and The Hound of the Baskervilles, an unpublished typescript owned by Dr. Austin. The typescript is dated August 1902, which was about four months after Gillette had closed in Sherlock Holmes in London and after the appearance of the final instalment of Houn in The Strand Magazine. To a man who was fond of the theater and who liked to write for the stage, this must have seemed an ideal time to write a playscript for Houn. The play is put together by lifting great chunks of dialogue right out of the Strand, which would have caused copyright difficulties for anyone but Sir Arthur. Moreover, the corrections appear to be in Doyle's hand. The play is very short and very static and therefore would be unsuitable for performance.

C10282. Batory, Dana Martin. "Watch That Man?" Megavore: The Journal of Popular Fiction, No. 9 (June 1, 1980), 40-43.

The article analyzes what Samuel Rosenberg defines as the Conan Doyle Syndrome in ManW. The distorted sexual elements underlying the "friendship" of Edward and Sparrow MacCoy are examined. "You loved your brother," says MacCoy, "... but you didn't love him a cent more than I loved him, though you'll say that I took a queer way to show it."

C10283. Brown, David. "Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes?" NFTD, 5, No. 4 (December 1984), 1-3.

An attempt to identify the "Amateur Reasoner of Some Celebrity" who wrote letters to the press offering solutions to the mysteries of Lost and ManW. Holmes was no "amateur." Who else could it have been?

C10284. Cypser, Darlene A. "A Capital Mistake: An Apocryphal Rebuttal," BSJ, 38, No. 4 (December 1988), 237.

Rebuts Vatza's thesis that Watson was the author of the letters in ManW and Lost. Points out that the author of these letters recommends using a "synthetic" method of investigation in the absence of data, which Holmes called "a capital mistake."

C10285. Drazen, Patrick E. "`The Man with the Watches,' or Apocrypha Now"/"`The Lost Special,' or Apocrypha? Nu ...," CHJ, 5, No. 10 (October 1933), 2-4.

C10286. Green, Richard Lancelyn. The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes. Cover design by John Gorham. [London: Privately Printed, Christmas 1984.] 1 card.

Printed in an edition of 50 numbered copies in black, 100 in green, and 250 in red.

C10287. Haines, Edward P. "You Can't Get There from Here, or The Loused Special," by The Old Conductor. [Philadelphia: Privately Produced, August 1982.] 3 p.

The maps in BSJ for December 1981 concerning Lost and ManW has prompted a review of that singular special and its peculiar performance after it passed St. Helens Junction. "This whimsical fairy tale breeds questions at every turn."

C10288. Homer, Michael W. "The Absence of Holmes: The Continuation of the Mormon Subplot in `Angels of Darkness,'" ACD, 4 (1993).

The essay discusses the events leading up to the publication of Stud, the sources utilized by Doyle, travel accounts, anti-Mormon sources, Masonic literature, and Spiritualist literature. It also discusses the background of "Angels of Darkness" and contains a short synopsis of the unpublished play.

Winner of the 1st David Kirby Memorial Essay Competition.

C10289. Potter, Barrett G. "`The Jew's Breast-Plate' as a Story of Holmes -- Add It to the Apocrypha," CH, 6, No. 1 (Autumn 1982), 3-8.

"The Jew's Breast-Plate" is one of Doyle's approximately 150 non-Sherlockian short stories. It first appeared in the February 1899 issue of The Strand Magazine and later in Round the Fire Stories. A close examination of the story reveals clear evidence of the Master's influence. Thus it well deserves recognition as part of the Sherlockian Apocrypha.

C10290. Redmond, Donald A. The Lost Engine & The Lost Special. Kingston, Ontario: Privately Printed, 1982. [12] p. illus.

"A ghost story intended to bring seasonal felicitations on Blue Carbuncle Day 1982, and on the Birthday of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, January 6, 1983."

Contents: Introduction. -- The Lost Engine, by W. L. Alden; Illustrated by R. Jack (The Idler).

C10291. Shepherd, Walter. "Three Letters," On the Scent with Sherlock Holmes: Some Old Problems Resolved. London: Arthur Barker Ltd., [1978]. p. 95-107. illus.

The authors of two letters to newspapers, in Lost and ManW, are established as Sherlock Holmes and Barker, respectively. A letter to Doyle from a friend of Watson's clears up the nature of Watson's Afghan wounds.

C10292. Vatza, Edward J. "The Apocryphal Letters Revisited," BSJ, 38, No. 2 (June 1988), 84-87.

Holmesian methods are used to reveal the true author of the letters cited in Lost and ManW. The author? None other than Dr. John H. Watson.

C10293. Wyman, John F. "Comparative Review: The Published Apocrypha versus The Final Adventures," Afghanistanzas, 5, No. 7 (September 1981), 2-6.

"Peter Heining's The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a vital book. It includes eight pieces of Sherlockian material which are otherwise unavailable. Jack Tracy's Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha is a convenient way of acquiring the plays Sherlock Holmes and The Speckled Band. Other than that, it has nothing to offer that is not done better in the Haining book."

C10294. -- A3631. Gill, William H. "Some Notable Sherlockian Buildings," SHJ, 4, No. 4 (Spring 1960), 124-126.

C10295. -- A3632. Van Liere, Edward J. "The Architectural Sherlock Holmes," BSJ, 13, No. 3 (September 1963), 156-163.

----------. ----------, Medical and Other Essays. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1966. p. 143-152.

"Many interesting references to architecture may be found in the novels. This indicates that Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes both had more than a passing interest in architecture. The references are especially pleasing, because they are seldom detailed or technical, and as a consequence may be enjoyed by all."

C10296. -- A3633. Layng, Charles. "Watson's War with the Army," BSJ, 2, No. 2 (April 1952), 73-80.

"Are you perchance interested in the foulest sort of traitors, fiendish murderers, cheats at cards, vicious martinets or just plain all-around blackguards? If so, you'll find them among Doctor Watson's colonels, who were all of these things and worse."

C10297. -- A3634. Sellars, Crighton. "Dr. Watson and the British Army," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 3 (July 1947), 332-341.

"In Watson's stories collected in the Canon we find, upon investigation, that he is so jealous of the good reputation of certain Army regiments that, though he is only too quick to note a real regiment when a member of it is of good reputation, he resorts to the subterfuge of inventing a regimental name or number if the individual of whom he is writing is of low repute or has done anything reprehensible."

C10298. -- B1672. Foss, T. F. "Doctor, Why Clobber the Colonels?" SHJ, 12, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1976), 82-83.

An investigation into why many of the Canon's villains were colonels. The reason may lie in the condescending, patronizing way Victorian officers in fighting units looked down on those in military support echelons, commissariat, doctors, and others. This could have caused a subconscious resentment in Watson's mind, and his portrayal of so many colonels as villains was his way of retaliating.

C10299. Fleissner, Robert F. "Beyond Baker Street to Field Lane: The Case of the Misassigned Print," BSM, No. 33 (Spring 1983), 17-23.

Some art work adorning John Gardner's contribution to the compilation Beyond Baker Street was wrongly assigned. Rather than depicting a source in London street life for Dickens's villainous Fagin and Scrooge (as the caption indicates), the wood engraving testifies to the illustrator's (William Henry Prior's) deliberately having transformed an earlier authentic watercolor (by Thomas H. Shepherd) to give the impression of Dickensian atmosphere and, incidentally, an anti-Semitic effect. (Neither Dickens nor Doyle themselves showed such a bias.) The original art work upon which the print was based is in the British Museum.

C10300. Fleissner, Robert F. "Dr. Moriarty, Mr. Holmes, and the Clues of Art," CH, 8, No. 3 (Spring 1985), 5-9.

The Doyle Diary (DB1982) needs rehabilitation, for the sketches adumbrate key cruces in the Canon; e.g., the Giant Rat mystery and Holmes's allusion to the most famous emendation in literary history, Theobald's about babbling of green fields in Shakespeare's Henry V. The supersleuth pointed out that it was the Hostess who was really doing the babbling, so the original Folio reading, "a Table of greene fields," is substantiated, referring to Falstaff's dying visage as a picture of verdancy. Charles Doyle's colored sketches show that he too was not beyond relating a human face to the wildness of Nature. The effect is pre-surrealistic. Other points favoring the genuine reading are that "the original `Table' reading was not replaced until the mid-eighteenth century, whereas other changes for the sake of clarity, indeed in the same textual context, were made earlier."

The reading must have gone over in the theater too because it is found in early editions of the play. Perhaps the Hostess' proneness to drink was in part responsible for her image, even as Charles's wild imagination owed something to his addiction. Such dependence on alcohol might even account for the ellipsis in the Folio line.

C10301. Fleissner, Robert F. "Holmes on the Great Crux: The Design of Falstaff's Death," BSM, No. 31 (Autumn 1982), 1-10.

Sherlock Holmes may have been the first to solve correctly the "Table of greene fields" crux in Henry V. When he mentions in 3Stu that "the landlady babbled of green peas at seven-thirty" (a well-recognized allusion to Theobald's emendation), we witness Doyle's intuitive recognition that a woman was the one doing the babbling in the crucial description. Yet ironically she makes sense.

References to Shakespeare and to Holmes's being a descendant of the Vernet family, a distinguished family of painters, support the hypothesis that the Master Detective would have grasped the F reading.

C10302. Huntington, Tom. "A Case of Identity," Air & Space/Smithsonian, 8, No. 2 (June-July 1993), 9-10. illus.

In a paper presented to the American Astronomical Society, Bradley E. Schaefer, an astronomer at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, reported that the U.S. astronomer and mathematician, Simon Newcomb, may have been the model for Professor Moriarty and that the British astronomer, Col. Arthur Drayson, was the inspiration for Col. Moran.

C10303. Schaefer, Bradley E. "Sherlock Holmes and Some Astronomical Connections," The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 103, No. 1 (1993). illus.

----------. ----------, With Editor's Notes. NBSPB, No. 15 (July 1993), 16-21.

Contents: Sherlock Holmes. -- James Moriarty. -- Simon Newcomb. -- Alfred Drayson. -- Sebastian Moran.

C10304. -- A3635. Chorley, Jennifer. "Some Diggings Down Under," SHJ, 6, No. 2 (Spring 1963), 49-51.

Speculations on some "ex-Australians" and others, with special reference to Glor, Sign, Bosc, and Abbe; with a few allusions from Nava, etc.

C10305. -- A3636. Fredman, L. E. "About Down Under," SHJ, 6, No. 3 (Winter 1963), 96-97. (Wigmore Street Post-Bag)

A clarification of points raised by Mrs. Chorley regarding Australia.

C10306. -- B5981. Barker, Geoffrey. "Sherlock Holmes in Devilish Plot," The Age [Melbourne] (December 26, 1978).

----------. ----------, Sydney Morning Herald (December 26, 1978).

----------. ----------, The Advertiser [Adelaide] (January 3, 1979).

"In London, Geoffrey Barker says Sherlock Holmes came to Adelaide, of all places, and was involved in a plan to thwart Federation. Not so, says Alan Olding, an Adelaide devotee of the Master Detective. He came to thwart Republicanism." With an illustration of Holmes at the Melbourne Pre-Federation conference in 1893.

Another, brief article -- an interview with Olding -- by Chris Butler appears on the same page.

C10307. Barker, Geoffrey. "Australian Notes," SHJ, 15, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 8-9, 25.

Reprinted from The Sydney Morning Herald, December 26, 1978 (DB5981).

Review: SHJ, 15, No. 2 (Summer 1981), 60 (Ian McQueen).

C10308. Eedle, J. H. "A Case of Identity," NFTD, Christmas Edition (December 1983), 1-4.

The importance of a sense of identity and of historical self-worth in the formation of national character and attitudes, with an account of the visit by Holmes and Mrs. Watson (née Morstan) to Australia in 1891.

C10309. Eneberg, William. "Australia and the Canon," NFTD, 6. No. 1 (March 1985), 1-3.

Contents: 1. Australia in the Canon. -- 2. Australians in the Canon. -- 3. Characters in the Canon Who Have Some Link to Australia.

C10310. Groves, Derham. Sherlock Holmes in Australia. Melbourne's Performing Arts Museum, Victorian Arts Centre, September 1983. 4 p. illus (The Passing Show, 8)

"This edition of The Passing Show was produced to coincide with the Sherlock Holmes exhibition in the foyer of the Melbourne Concert Hall, September 1983."

C10311. Library Council of Victoria. Holmes Away from Home. An exhibition at the State Library of Victoria to celebrate 100 years of Sherlock Holmes in print, and featuring the visit to Australia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Presented by the Library Council of Victoria, The Queen's Hall, 7 December 1987 -- 31 January 1988. [Melbourne: Library Council of Victoria, 1987.] 56 p. illus.

Limited to 800 numbered copies, including a deluxe edition of 50 with a commemorative etching.

Contents: Foreword by Jenni Boon. -- Introduction by Tom Stix. -- My Father Knew Sherlock Holmes, by Richard Hughes, Jnr. -- Foul Play, by Dr. Watson, Jnr. [Richard Hughes, Snr.]. -- The Basic One Hundred: A Sherlock Holmes Library, by John Bennett Shaw. -- On Stage in Australia, by Derham Groves. -- Conan Doyle in Australia, by Alec H. Chisholm. -- Conan Doyle Among the Barbarians, by Derham Groves.

Review: SHJ, 19, No. 1 (Winter 1988), 31 (Nicholas Utechin).

C10312. [Doyle, Steven T.] "Sherlockian Autographs," SHR, 2, No. 4 (1990), 166; 3, No. 4 (1992), 157.

An irregular feature in SHR, reproducing the signatures of Arthur Conan Doyle, Vincent Starrett, Adrian Conan Doyle, Christopher Morley, Arthur Wontner, Peter Cushing, "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay), Julian Wolff, Jeremy Brett, and Michael Harrison.

C10313. -- A3637. Abbey National Building Society. The Immortal Sherlock Holmes. London: [1968]. [8] p.

An illustrated advertising booklet issued by a firm whose head office is considered by many to be located on the site of the original 221b.

C10314. -- A3638. Aronson, Marvin E. "The Case of the Unhappy Landlord," by Isaac Hudson (as told to Marvin Aronson, M.D.). BSJ, 15, No. 4 (December 1965), 218-220.

A justified complaint by the husband of Martha Hudson for not being mentioned in the Saga, after his many long years of patient service to the illustrious tenants.

C10315. -- A3639. Frisbee, Owen P. "Meditations of Dr. Watson: Baker Street," BSJ, 12, No. 1 (March 1962), 22.

"Of all the numbers that our memories see / Is that best loved of all: 2-2-1B."

C10316. -- A3640. Galerstein, David. "Sidelights on Baker Street," BSJ, 17, No. 1 (March 1967), 25-27.

"Holmes found it necessary to rent other rooms in the same building -- and probably ended up leasing the entire house."

C10317. -- A3641. Honce, Charles. "Sensation in Baker Street," Tales from a Beekman Hill Library. Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Uttered by S. A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press, 1952. p. 67-73.

The author tells of the attention he attracted while strolling along Baker Street in a deerstalker!

C10318. -- A3643. Husted, Ellery. "Baker Street from Guam," BSJ [OS], 4, No. 1 (January 1949), 118-122.

----------. Condensed with title: "The Case of the Baker Street Plans," The Reader's Digest, 56 (March 1950), 49-50.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes misstänkt," Det Bästa ur Reader's Digest [Stockholm] (May 1950), 61-62.

An amusing story about how the author's floor plans of 221b were held up by Cincpac's censors.

C10319. -- A3644. Jacobs, Leonard. "Baker Street," BSJ, 6, No. 2 (April 1956), 101-105.

An interesting history of a thoroughfare that has become inseparably linked with the name of Sherlock Holmes.

C10320. -- A3645. Keddie, James [Sr.] "The Other Boarder," The Saturday Review of Literature, 15, No. 20 (March 13, 1937), 12, 14.

----------. ----------, 221b: Studies in Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Vincent Starrett. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1940. p. 68-70.

Speculation on the activities behind the scenes at 221b.

C10321. -- A3646. Kennedy, Bruce. "The Untidy Holmes?" SOS, No. 2 (November 1966), 2-4.

"It was Watson, not Holmes, who gave the rooms at 221b Baker Street their familiar untidiness."

C10322. -- A3647. Lindsley, Mary F. "By Hansom to Baker Street," PD, 1, No. 3 (March 1968), 2. (The Master's Corner)

"We leave / Temple Bar, / Westminster, Soho, our daily sightseeing done, / To turn into an ordinary street / Where an invisible house outwatched / the Blitz, / Armored in non-existence."

C10323. -- A3648. Morley, Christopher. "Report from Baker Street," The New York Times Book Review (November 27, 1949), 45.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 9 (Summer 1966), 182.

A discussion of the author's visit to the site of Holmes's flat.

C10324. -- A3650. Russell, Audrey. "Baker Street, W.l," London Calling, No. 913 (May 2, 1957), 8-9.

An illustrated history of this world-famous street, with emphasis on its two most famous residents.

C10325. -- A3651. Shearn, A. L. "The Street and the Detective," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 2 (1957), 50-54.

"A critical analysis of the relationship between Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes." (Subtitle)

C10326. -- A3653. Starrett, Vincent. "Introduction," Baker Street and Beyond: A Sherlockian Gazetteer, by Edgar W. Smith. New York: The Pamphlet House, 1940. p. 9-10.

A note on some other eminent persons who have lived on Baker Street.

C10327. -- A3654. Starrett, Vincent. "Mr. Holmes of Baker Street," Real Detective Tales (December 1932).

----------. "No. 221-B Baker Street," The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933. p. 56-76.

----------. ----------, ----------. Rev. and enl. The University of Chicago Press, [1960]. p. 38-50.

The Baker Street scene, with an account of Dr. Briggs's identification of the house -- at No. 111.

C10328. -- A3656. Wells, Carolyn. "Ballade of Baker Street," Collier's, 41, No. 21 (August 15, 1908), 14.

----------. ----------, Two Ballads in Praise of Sherlock Holmes. Ysleta: Edwin B. Hill, 1937. p. [2].

----------. ----------, Mark Twain's Associated Press Speech and Other News Stories, by Charles Honce. New York: Privately Printed, 1940. p. 94-95.

----------. ----------, Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 260-261.

"Sherlock! My fondest wishes are / That on a day I yet may greet, / Haply in some far avatar, / Those hallowed rooms in Baker Street."

C10329. -- A3657. Wright, Lee. "Mrs. Hudson Speaks," BSJ [OS], 1, No. 1 (January 1946), 45-50.

The landlady explains how she happened to rent the second or top storey of her house to Holmes and Watson.

C10330. -- A3658. Yates, Donald A. "Baker Street--The Quiet Years," BSJ, 8, No. 1 (January 1958), 10.

"`For three long years that window shade's been / drawn....'"

C10331. -- A3652. Yuhasova, Helene. "Ballade of the Bright Stair-Rods," A Baker Street Four-Wheeler. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. [Maplewood, N.J., and New York: The Pamphlet House, 1944.] p. 57.

----------. ----------, A Lauriston Garden of Verses, by Helene Yuhasova. Summit, N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1946. p. [21-22].

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

"The bright rods climbing by the stair: / Half-opened door and sweet night air, / And peace within, against the odds / Of wild, dark business everywhere-- / Thank Watson for the bright stair-rods!"

C10332. -- B1673. Brugge, Walter van. "Baker Street 221 B," Panorama [Amsterdam], Nr. 26 (June 29, 1957), 28-31. illus.

"That was the address where the most famous detective of all time lived, according to his spiritual father. The numerous friends of the detective even know what the interior looks like."

C10333. -- B1674. Honce, Charles. "An American Tourist Wearing a Deerstalker Proves Sensation on London's Baker Street," Richmond News Leader (June 27, 1952).

----------. "A Mark of Sherlock Holmes Stumps Baker Street Residents," The Kansas City Star (June 27, 1952).

"Attired in a deerstalker, writer parades in front of detective's `home' but only draws stares of amusement, amazement and awe." (Subtitle)

First appearance of DA3641.

C10334. -- B1675. Husted, Ellery. "Baker Street Episode," Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery & Detection from The Reader's Digest. Pleasantville, N.Y.: The Reader's Digest Association, [1965]. p. 407-409.

Reprinted from the March 1950 issue (DA3643).

C10335. -- B1676. McLauchlin, Russell. "Déjà Vu," BSJ, 23, No. 3 (September 1973), 139.

"The time is ripe. The hour is meet. / I light my pipe in Baker Street."

C10336. -- B1677. Mann, Steve. "Sitting Room -- 221b," Canon Fodder. Charles O. Gray, editor. Little Rock: The Arkansas Valley Investors, Ltd., 1976. p. 46.

"The acrid tobacco that burns the eyes / Helps sort the truth from the lies; / The low, melodic scraping of the violin strings / Helps deduce from clues that aren't often seen."

C10337. -- B1678. O'Neill, Laverne. "The Search for Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street," San Francisco Chronicle (January 20, 1957), 6L. illus.

C10338. -- B1679. Sherrod, Floyd. "My Dream Rooms (as might have been conceived by Sherlock Holmes circa 1878," BSR, 1, No. 2 (August 1978), 4-5.

"When I have my rooms -- as I sometime may -- / I'll suit my fancy in every way. / I'll fill them with things that have caught my eye / From Scotland and Ireland and the Isle of Skye."

C10339. -- B1680. Werby, Donald and Willy. "In Search of 221b," VH, 6, No. 2 (April 1972), 2-3.

Mr. and Mrs. Werby discuss their noble project of having a replica of Holmes and Watson's lodgings constructed on the present site (No. 31) of the Abbey National Building Society. Illustrated with a 14 x 8 1/2 in. map of Baker Street, by T. Sulman.

C10340. Albany, Ray. "`I Have My Eye on a Suite in Baker Street Which Would Suit Us Down to the Ground' (Stud)," DH, 2, Nos. 3-4 (May 3, 1985), 1-6. illus.

The rooms at 221b played an important part in the life and career of Sherlock Holmes. Not only were the rooms a sleeping quarters for Holmes and Watson but served as the center of the investigative universe for the Master Detective. These rooms enhanced the thinking processes of Holmes. Away from 221b, Holmes was a very uncomfortable man as described in 3Stu. Watson comments, "My friends temper had not improved since he had been deprived of his scrapbooks, his chemicals, the congenial surroundings of Baker Street and his homely untidiness. He was an uncomfortable man."

C10341. Bond, Nelson. "A Poetical Challenge," BSJ, 32, No. 3 (September 1982), 161.

"And speaking of Holmes, by the way, / Can any Irregular say / The name of the gent / Who paid for the rent / To live in 221A?"

C10342. Brooks, Jack. "Baker Street," CH, 4, No. 3 (Spring 1981), 2.

"Take the favoured volume down / read awhile then walk again / through foggy London Town / listening for the muted clip-clop / of horses' hooves, the rattling sound / of carriage wheels on cobblestone."

C10343. Bryan, Michael G. "A Trip to Baker Street via Armchair," FTM, No. 4 (December 1979).

----------. ----------, BSJ, 32, No. 3 (September 1982),156-157.

Anyone can visit Holmes and Watson who possesses a healthy imagination, a gentle affection for these two everlasting friends, and a comfortable armchair.

C10344. Cooke, Catherine. "Baker Street in the Late Eighties," BSM, No. 56 (Winter 1988), 26-36.

A description of Baker Street on November 21, 1987, highlighting any points of Sherlockian interest, both the various candidates for 221b and the contemporary use of Holmes in advertising. Illustrated with photographs and a sketch map.

C10345. Hahn, Robert W. The Step on the Stair. 1 sheet.

"Published for the annual dinner of The Baker Street Irregulars, 9 January 1987."

"A crackling fire within the room, / Two old friends sprawled in chairs; / The blinds drawn tight 'gainst London's gloom, / And then ... the step upon the stairs."

C10346. Hardwick, Mollie. "221b (1887-1987)," BSM, No. 52 (Winter 1987), 9.

"Could we, with an eye clairvoyant, / Find the dear remembered door, / Which, with trembling, many a client / (Fair or famous) stood before?"

C10347. Husted, Ellery. "Sherlock Holmes under Mistanke," Giv Agt -- Højspaending! 50 Mysterier, Mordsager og Kriminalgåder. København: Det Bedste af Reader's Digest, [1966]. p. 61-63.

First published in The Reader's Digest, January 1949 (DA3643, DB1675).

C10348. Johnson, Ken. "221b -- The Ultimate Male Fantasy?" Gaslight Publications, Catalogue No. 1 (Winter-Spring 1981), 4.

"The devoted and detailed interest in the lodgings at 221b Baker Street, in addition to establishing the life style of its two famous occupants, presents the ultimate in uninhibited male living."

C10349. Johnson, Roger. "If It Weren't for That Untidy Fellow Holmes," as by John H. Watson, M.D. Chelmsford: Privately Produced, Christmas 1989. 1 folded sheet.

"Oh it really is a very nice apartment. / Of its pleasures I could write you several tomes -- / But I share it with a hop-head -- / I'd feel less inclined to drop dead / If it weren't for that untidy fellow Holmes.

"Yes I share it with a hop-head, / And I wish that he would drop dead -- / That conceited and untidy fellow Holmes."

C10350. Lindsley, Mary F. "Hansom to Baker Street," BSJ, 34, No. 4 (December 1985), 197.

"We leave Temple Bar, / Westminster, Soho, our daily sightseeing done, / To turn into an ordinary street / Where an invisible house outwatched the Blitz, / Armoured in non-existence. It is sweet / To trust its architecture to our wits."

C10351. Logan, Carole. "On the Street," CH, 11, No. 1 (Autumn 1987), 35.

To the tune by Lerner and Loewe.

"Bobbies stop and stare; they don't bother me, / For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be. / Let the fog roll by; I won't care if I / Can be near Baker Street where he lives."

C10352. McClure, Michael and Susan. "When Doyle Visited Baker Street," BCA (December 1989), 21-24.

Using eye-witness accounts from letters relating to Susan McClure's genealogy, proof is presented that Sir Arthur was on Baker Street in July 1911. This refutes his recollection that he did not believe he had ever been on Baker Street in his life.

C10353. "On the Street Where He Lived," SHG, No. 4 (Spring 1992), 36-37.

"Gazette co-publisher Andrew Archer takes us for a stroll down that most famous of streets and points out some of the landmarks, past and present." With a map of Baker Street.

C10354. Sauvage, Léo. "Eliminating the Impossible," BSJ, 33, No. 1 (March 1983), 24-29.

The main point of this article is the overdue correction of a misunderstanding common to generations of Sherlockians. The "B" in 221b has strictly nothing to do with the floor (European first, American second) occupied by Holmes and Watson. In Great Britain, as everywhere in Europe, a "B" or "bis" simply indicates that a building has been added between two existing houses, the purpose being to avoid having to change all the street numbers that follow. Canonical confirmation: The "126B Corporation Street" address in Stoc is "a passage between two large shops" and the office located at that address is on the fifth floor.

C10355. Sauvage, Léo. "Unsafe at 221b," BSJ, 34, No. 4 (December 1984), 206-210.

Though he told Watson that "it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you" (Fina), Holmes neglected the most elementary precautions, such as locking his door when he was in, or preventing strangers from entering when he was away. Thus, at the most critical moment, Moriarty had only to push open the unlocked door while Holmes still had to get his revolver from a drawer (Fina). In addition, the permanent rule (Yell) seems to have been that anyone asking for the detective when he was out should be let in to wait alone in the living room. Since this was the place where Holmes kept all his papers scattered with "incredible untidiness" (Dyin), even "the king of blackmailers" (Chas) could rummage at will among the most confidential letters and documents.

C10356. Sherman, John. "The Other Tenant," BSJ, 33, No. 1 (March 1983), 30-33.

Extracts from the diary of Simon McCartney, a poor nervous man living in the flat above Holmes who manages, over the years, to misinterpret most of the important events from the Canon.

C10357. [Sovine, J. W.] "The Rubáiyát of Baker Street. Part II. The Suite," by Dr. Hill Barton. BSJ, 32, No. 4 (December 1982), 203-204.

"The fog hangs low in Baker Street, the cabby's at the door, / The game's afoot in London Town, then, now, and evermore! / We search the wide world over, and happily we find / That where it's always '95, becomes a state of mind."

Part I was published in June 1961 (DA4531).

C10358. Stone, Ridley. "Upstairs, Downstairs," BSJ, 32, No. 3 (September 1982), 162-167.

A marvelous reply in verse to "A Poetical Challenge" by Nelson Bond (p. 161) concerning the person(s) who lived in "221A." After suggesting numerous possibilities, the author decides that it is actually we Sherlockians who lodge downstairs from 221b!

C10359. Utechin, Nicholas. "Back to Baker Street," SHJ, 16, No. 1 (Winter 1982), 2-3. (Editorial Notes)

A look at today's Baker Street and its Sherlockian commercialism is a disappointment when compared to the Baker Street of Holmes's day.

C10360. Yates, Donald A. "Baker Street -- the Noisy Years," BSM, No. 32 (Winter 1982), 10.

"The demolition ball has had its way, / The noble rubble lies in tumbled clots, / The century-long destruction ends today, / Begun, we know, with Sherlock's indoor shots."

See also "Baker Street -- The Quiet Years" (DA3658).

See also Miniature Rooms

C10361. -- A3659. Baring-Gould, William S. "Mrs. Hudson's Inheritance," BSJ, 17, No. 1 (March 1967), 28-36.

----------. Reprinted as the second half (p. 92-102) of "`I Have My Eye on a Suite in Baker Street,'" The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 1, chap. 11, p. 85-102. illus.

A detailed description of the physical features and furnishings. "For Holmes and Watson, in every way, it was indeed `a most desirable residence.'"

Winner of the 10th annual Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award for the best contribution to BSJ in 1967.

C10362. -- A3660. Galerstein, David. "Watson's Room or a Spare Room?" BSJ, 19, No. 3 (September 1969), 176-177.

An argument in support of a third bedroom.

C10363. -- A3661. "Holmesiana," The Strand, 118, No. 711 (March 1950), 98-99.

"Plans and a map, based on data in the stories, prepared by an enthusiast."

C10364. -- A3662. Holroyd, James Edward. "`Our Sanctum,'" Baker Street By-ways. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1959]. p. 81-86.

C10365. -- A3663. Keddie. James, Sr. "Gasogene, Coal Box, Persian Slipper," The Saturday Review of Literature, 15, No. 9 (June 27, 1936), 12-13.

----------. ----------, The Second Cab. Edited by James Keddie, Jr. [Boston: The Speckled Band, 1947.] p. 15-17.

A letter to Christopher Morley concerning the above-mentioned items.

C10366. -- A3664. McCullam, William. "The Problem of the Veiled Lodgings," BSJ, 19, No. 2 (June 1969), 101-108.

An architect's view of the location and interior.

C10367. -- A3665. McPharlin, Paul. "221b Baker Street: Certain Physical Details," With plans by R. Spearman Myers. BSJ [OS], 2, No. 2 (April 1947), 180-194.

A detailed description of the interior, including floor plans, a photograph of the sitting room by Dr. Briggs, and drawings of the furnishings.

C10368. -- A3666. Newton, G. B. "This Desirable Residence," SHJ, 3, No. 2 (Winter 1956), 12-14.

Contents: A Waiting-Room? -- Nine Rooms. -- The Ground Floor. -- The First Floor. -- The Top Floor. -- Holmes's Bedroom. -- Watson's Bedroom. -- Domestic Staff.

C10369. -- A3667. Schutz, Robert H. A Modest Sherlockian Monograph. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Plane Tree Press, 1970. [2] p. illus.

A privately printed folder on the sanitary facilities.

C10370. -- A3668. Waters, Frank A. "The Rooms in Baker Street," The Best of the Pips. Westchester County, N.Y.: The Five Orange Pips, 1955. p. 15-20.

A description of the rooms and furnishings.

C10371. -- A3669. Weaver, Ronald R. "Bow Window in Baker Street," BSJ, 5, No. 2 (April 1955), 93-95.

Because the bow window came to be altered, the absence of such a window should not be a fatal objection in identifying the true location.

C10372. -- A3670. Wilmunen, Jon V. "A Diagram of the Rooms at 221b," The Gamebag, No. 2 (1966), 16.

C10373. -- A3671. Wolff, Julian. "I Have My Eye on a Suite in Baker Street," BSJ [OS], 1, No. 3 (July 1946), 296-299.

----------. ----------, SOS Annual, No. 2 (January 1968), 9-11.

A description and detailed floor plan by the chief Sherlockian cartographer.

C10374. -- A3672. Wolff, Julian. "The Un-curious Incident of the Baker Street Bathroom," BSJ, 17, No. 1 (March 1967), 37-41.

"Since bathrooms were used not only in ancient times, but also by contemporaries of Holmes and Watson, it does not seem illogical to believe that 221b possessed one." Includes a photograph of a Victorian bathroom, a letter to Capt. Julian Wolff from Edgar Smith, dated May 31, 1944, and Dr. Wolff's floor plan.

C10375. -- B1720. Brener, Carol. "The Rise and Recline of the Morris Chair," New York, 8, No. 9 (March 3, 1975), 70-71.

An illustrated article on the chair designed and manufactured in 1866 by William Morris. The author states that Holmes probably had a "Morris chair" and that "it will be perfect for sitting back and reading a little `Sherlock Holmes.'" With a photograph of Dennis Cooney (Dr. Watson) sitting in a finely carved Morris chair.

C10376. -- B1721. Elling, Christian. "Baker Street 221 B," Politiken [Copenhagen] (April 7, 1946). illus.

----------. ----------, BSCL, No. 10 (1972), 16-23. illus.

A reconstruction of the sitting room.

C10377. -- B1722. Fletcher, Geoffrey S. "London in the 'Nineties," The Sphere (November 8, 1957), 12-13.

With a color illustration of the interior of 221b.

C10378. -- B1723. "Holmesiana," The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 27-28.

Floor plans of 221 and a map of Baker Street, reprinted from The Strand, March 1950 (DA3661).

C10379. -- B1724. Nordberg, Nils. "Interlorer fra 221 Baker Street," Aftenposten [Oslo] (November 22, 1969).

C10380. -- B1725. Potter, H. C. "Tantalus Renascens," BSJ, 25, No. 1 (March 1975), 33-35. illus.

A line-by-line search of the Canon revealed only one tantalus -- in Capt. Peter Carey's cabin (Blac). Thus, Christopher Morley was wrong in claiming that one existed in the 221b sitting room.

C10381. Buckley, Kathleen. "Oriental Rugs," Beaten's, No. 4 (1986), 6-8.

A "trifling monograph" on the rugs that may have been used in 221b.

C10382. Butler, Debbie. "Fortress 221b," MB (NS), No. 2 (Spring 1992), 3, 3-4.

Speculation on the security devices used by Holmes to protect 221b.

C10383. Duray, Joe. "More Thoughts on 221-B," ICN, 15, No. 1 (April 1992), 6-7.

A discussion of the bathing and toilet facilities, and the gasogene.

C10384. Duray, Joe. "Some Thoughts on Holmes' Bedroom," ICN, 14, No. 8 (February-March 1992), 6.

A description of the Master's bedroom.

C10385. Erickson, Brian J. and Charlotte A. An Inventory of 221b Baker Street Located at S. Holmes, Esquire, 480 Sutter St., 30th Floor, San Francisco, Ca. 94108. [Forward by Ray de Groat.] [Palo Alto, Calif.: Privately Produced], 1987. [24] p. illus.

Lists the various items in the consulting room and quotes the Canonical references to them.

C10386. Groves, Derham. "The Feng Shui of 221b," BSM, No. 45 (Spring 1986), 12-27. illus.

A follow-up article to "The Sherlock Holmes Center" (BSM, Winter 1984) in which Groves discusses how he utilized some of the concepts of a certain oriental discipline in preparing a layout of 221b.

C10387. Hoffman, Margaret. "The Bathroom at Baker Street," BSJ, 31, No. 2 (June 1981), 104-109. illus.

Demonstrates that Holmes, with his "catlike" love of personal cleanliness, would have availed himself of the modern bathroom plumbing and appliances available in London before the turn of the century, and would have had them installed at 221b.

C10388. James, P. D. "One Clue at a Time," The Writer, 97, No. 2 (February 1974), 9-11.

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle builds up the scene [of place] through a series of stories object by object, and the complete picture is one that the reader himself creates and furnishes in his own imagination from this accumulation of small details."

C10389. Keefauver, Brad. "Hudson vs. V.R.," SMuse, 8, No. 2 (Winter 1987), 17-19.

A discussion of the transitory nature of furnishings and decor, including bullet-pock V.R.'s.

C10390. MacLachlan, Don. "Dr. Watson Takes a Chair ... and Another ... and Another...," CH, 12, No. 3 (Spring 1989), 26-28.

Answers the question: How many chairs or seats were there in the rooms at 221b?

C10391. Martin, Tina. "Who Used the Hat-Stand at 221b?" The Ritual, No. 3 (Spring 1989), 4-5.

"It is obvious that not only do clients not use the 221b hat-stand, but there is nowhere upstairs for them to hang their coats. This seems a strange oversight on Holmes' part and clearly Holmes and Watson take no interest in their visitors' discomfort."

C10392. Ranild, Svend. "Tips til modelbyggere," Sherlockiana, 32, Nr. 2-3 (1987), 21-23.

Text in Danish.

C10393. Snyder, Dee. The ABC's of Baker Street: A Guide to the Homesian Habitat. Compiled with a preface by Dee Snyder. Introduction by John Bennett Shaw. Skokie, Ill.: Black Cat Press, 1983. 97 p. illus. 2 7/8 x 2 in.

Limited to 249 copies.

Garnet red pyroxylin leather with letters in gilt; decorative endpapers.

Design, typography and production by Norman W. Forgue.

A valuable and attractive miniature reference work for those who are merely musing or for those engaged in recreating miniature or full-scale versions of the rooms.

See Museums and Sherlock Holmes Museum (London)

C10394. -- A3673. Arenfalk, Poul. "Is 221b Baker Street No. 21 or No. 31?" IR, 1, No. 1 (April 1960), 1-2.

A refutation of Harold Morris's identification and confirmation of Bernard Davies's.

C10395. -- A3674. Baring-Gould, William S. "The Problem of No. 221," BSJ, 8, No. 2 (April 1958), 69-77.

----------. Reprinted as the first half (p. 86-89) of "`I Have My Eye on a Suite in Baker Street,'" The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 1, chap. 11, p. 85-102. illus.

A review of the various theories on the location of 221 Baker Street, with the suggestion that the house was located "on the west (or left going north) side of Baker Street, below Dorset Street." In an additional commentary in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (p. 90-92), the author concurs with Mr. Davies's choice of No. 31.

C10396. -- A3675. Brend, Gavin. "The Home of Holmes," My Dear Holmes. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1951]. Chap. 5, p. 46-53.

It was located at No. 61 Baker Street in the block between Blanford Street and Dorset Street.

C10397. -- A3676. Davies, Bernard. "The Back Yards of Baker Street," SHJ, 4, No. 3 (Winter 1959), 83-88.

----------. ----------, Seventeen Steps to 221b. [Edited by] James Edward Holroyd. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1967]. p. 167-178.

An argument in favor of No. 31.

C10398. -- A3677. Donegall, Lord. "221b," SHJ, 4, No. 4 (Spring 1960), 109-110. (Editorial)

----------. "221 B Baker Street -- Et forfriskende syn på det evige spørgsmål," [Oversat af A. D. Henriksen]. Sherlockiana, 5, Nr. 3-4 (1960), 10-11.

"In all this, we refrain from pronouncing judgment. Nor do we share a burning desire that the precise position of 221b should be located. On the contrary, long live Nos. 111, 221, 27, 19, 59-63, 56, 57, 58, 108, 109, 31, 21 and any other numbers that were not thought of first."

C10399. -- A3678. Donohue, Michael. "I've Got Your Number," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 1 (1956), 52-55.

The numerology for 221b is worked out according to Helena Davis's theory as set forth in her article "Your Address, Please," The American Home (April 1952).

C10400. -- A3679. Harris, Robert G. "A Confirmation of Mr. McLauchlin's Thesis Independently Arrived At," BSJ, 2, No. 2 (April 1952), 71.

Includes a photograph of "221b" Gloucester Place.

C10401. -- A3680. Harrison, Michael. "Why `221b'?" BSJ, 14, No. 4 (December 1964), 219-222.

"A Sherlockian suggests a reason for Watson's choice of that particular imaginary number." (Subtitle)

C10402. -- A3681. Holroyd, James Edward. "Solutions by Numbers," Baker Street By-ways. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1959]. p. 68-74.

An ingenious manipulation of numbers in Musg, RedH, and Sign reconfirms No. 109 as the true original.

C10403. -- A3682. Holroyd, James Edward. "221b Baker Street?" The Cornhill Magazine, No. 987 (Summer 1951), 244-254.

----------. "Where Was 221b?" Baker Street By-ways. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1959]. p. 53-67.

A careful examination of the different claims regarding the exact location of 221 in which the author supports Short's claim for No. 109.

C10404. -- A3683. Hyslop, James T. "The Master Adds a Postscript (An Extract from the Files of John H. Watson, M.D.)." Transcribed by James T. Hyslop. BSJ [OS], 2, No. 2 (April 1947), 113-118.

A dialogue between Holmes and Watson during which they place the location of their old rooms at No. 19, in south Baker Street, rather than at No. 111, in north Baker Street, as maintained by Dr. Briggs and concurred in by Vincent Starrett. (Holmes and Watson should know!)

C10405. -- A3684. Kennedy, Bruce. "The Mystery of 221b," BSP, No. 2 (August 1965), 2.

Some of the theories about its location are briefly summarized.

C10406. -- A3685. Maun, Ian. "Remarkable Sign," SHJ, 9, No. 2 (Summer 1969), 69. (Wigmore Street Post-Bag)

The author has discovered a photograph (reproduced therein) taken around 1910 showing the corner of Upper Baker Street. Outside No. 44 is a sign that reads "Holmes, 44."

C10407. -- A3686. McLauchlin, Russell. "What Price Baker Street?" BSJ, 2, No. 2 (April 1952), 65-70.

"The partners lived in Gloucester Place; which is one street west of Baker Street and also runs from Portman Square to the Marylebone Road. That is where Mrs. Hudson's house stood--and still stands."

C10408. -- A3687. Morris, Sir Harold. "Sherlock Holmes," Back View. London: Peter Davies, [1960]. Chap 7, p. 48-56.

"In his autobiography he tells us that No. 21 Baker Street, five doors down the street, was at one time his great-grandfather's residence and that it was on the suggestion of his father, Malcolm Morris, to his colleague, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, that the figures `21' formed the basis of the editorial disguise for the famous rooms." (Bernard Davies) (A further discussion of this identification appears in letters to the editor of SHJ by A. Lloyd-Taylor, Bernard Davies, W. G. B. Maitland, and Harold Morris on p. 137-138 of vol. 4, p. 29-30 of vol. 5, and p. 64-65 and 97 of vol. 6.)

C10409. -- A3688. Patrick, Robert R. "No. 221: Confirming the Location," BSJ, 8, No. 3 (July 1958), 161-162.

Evidence corroborating Baring-Gould's location.

C10410. -- A3689. Ringsted, Henrik V. "21 Baker Street Is the Real 221b," Sherlockiana, 5, Nr. 1-2 (1960). 1. (Nyt fra Baker Street)

Text in Danish.

C10411. -- A3690. Roberts, Sir Sydney. "221b," SHJ, 5, No. 2 (Spring 1961), 54-55.

A defense of Sir Harold's statement that Watson substituted "221b" for "21" Baker Street.

C10412. -- A3691. Schutz, Robert H. A Bibliography of the Location of 221b. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, December 1960. 2 p.

----------. ----------. Addenda. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, June 1961. 1 p.

C10413. -- A3692. Short, Ernest H. "221b Baker Street: Where Sherlock Holmes Lived," BSJ [OS], 4, No. 1 (January 1949), 48, 50-52. (From the Editor's Commonplace Book)

A paper, partially quoted and paraphrased by Edgar Smith, designating 109 as the true location.

C10414. -- A3693. Utechin, Nicholas. "A Mathematical Interlude," SHJ, 8, No. 4 (Summer 1968), 123-124.

Holroyd's numerical methods for obtaining the figure 109 has prompted Utechin to a similar mathematical manipulation of the Agra Treasure numbers in order to achieve other Baker Street addresses which researchers have advanced as the site. (The author was unable to produce No. 59 but Holroyd did on p. 23-24 of vol. 9.)

C10415. -- B1726. Berg, Curt. "Sherlock Holmes öch odets lek," Vindros: Litterär Kalender 1947. Stockholm: Albert Bonnier, [1947]. p. 93-100. illus.

C10416. -- B1727. Bergman, Ted. "Looking Up at the Numbers of the Houses (Bery S 249)," BSCL, No. 9 (1971), 10-23.

A review, in Swedish, of the literature with a folded map (laid in) of Baker Street.

C10417. -- B1728. "Tracking Down Sherlock Holmes," Sparks: A Magazine for the Staff of Marks & Spencer [London] (Autumn 1972), 10-11. illus.

Ian Hyman and Peter Gilmore of Marks and Spencer's Building Group corroborate Michael Harrison and Gavin Brend's claim that Michael House at 57 Baker Street is the Holmes apartment site.

Review: SHJ, 11, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 2-3 (Lord Donegall).

C10418. -- B1729. Utechin, Nicholas. "A Light on the Problem," SOS, 5, No. 2 (August 14, 1971), 15-19.

A study of street lamps on Baker Street lends support to Brend's theory (in My Dear Watson) that No. 221 is 59-63 Baker Street.

C10419. Bailey, Martin. "Strange Affair of the 17 Steps," The Observer [London] (June 4, 1989).

----------. ----------, BSS, 2, No. 3 (May-June 1990), insert page.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes' Home Mystery to Be Unlocked," Minneapolis Star-Tribune (June 13, 1989).

----------. ----------, BSS, 1, No. 4 (September-October 1989], 3.

----------. ----------, TT, No. 24 (1990), 7.

John Aidiniantz, an entrepreneur, asked the Westminster City Council to renumber the house at 239 Baker Street to 221b. The plan is opposed by both the Abbey National Building Society, whose headquarters cover numbers 215 to 229, and The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

C10420. Cochran, William R. "Dr. Briggs, H. W. Bell, and the Original Irregulars," BCA (1990), 16-23.

----------. "Highly Irregular: Briggs, Bell and Baker Street," [Rev.] BSJ, 42, No. 3 (September 1992), 149-153.

C10421. Collins, Dennis A. "Tracing 221b: A New Solution," SHJ, 20, No. 2 (Summer 1991), 60-63. illus.

Arguments in favor of the present No. 77.

Letters: SHJ, 20, No. 3 (Winter 1991), 111-112 (Bernard Davies); 20, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 143-144 (Dennis A. Collins).

C10422. Durden-Smith, Jo. "The Latest and Most Puzzling Sherlock Holmes Mystery," Illustrated by Gary Hovland. European Travel & Life, 6, No. 7 (September 1990), 16, 20.

An interview with Tony Harries and John Aidiniantz concerning the reality of Holmes and the true location of 221b.

C10423. Haynes, George Cleve. "Of B's, Baker Street and Irregular Speculations," SHJ, 19, No. 1 (Winter 1988), 20-21; "Postscript," SHJ, 19, No. 2 (Spring 1989), 40.

This inquiry asks where and how Doyle arrived at the number 221b. Published with a rare photograph of Baker Street taken in the late 19th century, the essay explores the literary imagination at work.

C10424. Iacono, Paul O "The True Location of 221b," BSJ, 31, No. 2 (September 1981), 161-168. illus.

The location of gas street-lamps and simple trigonometric calculations, together with hints from Empt, indicate that the location of the Holmes/Watson apartment was the present 111 Baker Street.

Letter: BSJ, 32, No. 1 (March 1982), 51-52 (Edward A. Merrill).

C10425. Langfeldt, Bent. "221b Baker Street," Sherlockiana, 25, Nr. 2-3 (1980), 13-16. illus.

Text in Danish.

C10426. Owen, Heather. "Baker Street Revisited," SHJ, 16, No. 4 (Summer 1984), 101-105. illus.

The Journal's new co-editor takes a closer look at Baker Street's naming and numbering, its bricks and mortar, with a sidelong glance at the buildings of special interest to Sherlockians. The article is illustrated with a map of Baker Street in 1895 and five photographs of 34, 77, 109, 111, and 235 Baker Street.

C10427. Rosier, Carol. "The Case for Upper Baker Street," BSN, 3, No. 3 (Michaelmas Term 1986), 4-5. illus.

Examines evidence as to the true site of 221b, and argues for a previously over-neglected possibility.

C10428. Satchell, Tim. "221b or Not 221b? The Strange Case of Sherlock's Home," The Standard (January 8, 1990). 19. illus.

More about John Aidiniantz's claim that 221b is actually located above the restaurant Martins at 239.

C10429. Stewart, Jules. "Holmes Is Going Back Home," The Jerusalem Post (April 11, 1990).

----------. ----------, BSS, 2, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 6, 3.

London entrepreneur John Aidiniantz has opened a Sherlock Holmes museum on what he claims is the actual site of 221. Letters to the detective will still be sent to the Abbey National Loan and Savings Institution whose headquarters occupy 215 to 229 Baker Street.

C10430. Tait, Simon. "221b or Not 221b?" The Times (March 31, 1990). illus.

----------. ----------, MSB, 13, No. 2 (May 1990), 3.

Did Holmes live at 225-235 (Abbey) or at 239 (Aidiniantz)?

C10431. "Vincent Starrett in Baker Street," BSJ, 36, No. 3 (September 1986), 151-155. (Incunabulum)

Reproduction of four pages of entries from Starrett's notebook marking his visit, to London in 1937, to what he believed to be the home of Holmes and Watson at No. 111 Baker Street, which supported the choice of Dr. Gray Chandler Briggs. Also features a caricature of Starrett from Literary Lights by Gene Markey and a self-portrait by Starrett.

C10432. Waldeck, John. "Windows on Baker Street," MM, Nos. 27-28 (October-December 1981), 24-25.

"Seven tests show that 113 meets most of the Canonical descriptions ... 113 is the true 221-B."

C10433. Waldeck, John. "Windows on Baker Street," Tails of the Giant Rats: Sherlockian Musings by The Giant Rats of Massillon. Edited by Hugh T. Harrington and Roy K. Preece, Jr. Massillon, Ohio: The Village Bookshelf, 1990. p. 50-56. illus.

There are fourteen proofs that 113 is the true 221b.
 
 

(Abbey National Building Society)

C10434. Green, Richard Lancelyn, ed. Letters to Sherlock Holmes. Selected by Richard Lancelyn Green. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex]: Penguin Books, [1985]. 234 p. illus.

"A selection of the most interesting and entertaining of the letters written to the world's most famous detective." (Cover)

Reviews: APD (April-May 1989), 3 (Vicki Muratore); BSJ, 36, No. 3 (September 1986), 182-183 (Peter E.. Blau); BSM, No. 45 (Spring 1986), 56, 27 (Daniel Stashower); Daily Express (October 26, 1985), 9 (David Ross); Doncaster Star (January 3, 1986) (Martin Dawes); Dublin Sunday Press (December 29, 1985); KCDJ, No. 48 (December 13, 1986), 3 (John Lehman); Money Marketing (December 6, 1985); Oxford Star (November 28, 1985); SHJ, 17, No. 4 (Summer 1986), 132 (Nicholas Utechin); What's On & Where to Go (December 12, 1985) (J. H.).

C10435. -- A3655. W., F. "Sherlock Doesn't Live Here Any More," The Abbey Road Journal, 1, No. 12 (Autumn 1935), 14-18.

"How mail still comes to 221b Baker Street, where, allegedly, the offices of the Abbey Road Building Society are now located." (Edgar W. Smith)

C10436. -- B1681. "Hedunit," Time, 53, No. 25 (June 20, 1949), 66-67. illus.

Letters to Holmes will now be delivered (without his permission!) to Michael Hall, editor of the new London Mystery Magazine. They were formerly sent to the Abbey National Building Society at 220-223 Baker Street and answered by Samuel William Gibson Morton, who, one trusts, was authorized by the detective.

C10437. -- B1682. Linen, James A. "A Letter from the Publisher," Time, 54, No. 5 (August 1, 1949), 7. illus.

In response to the Time story (DB1681), more than 300 letters were received (and answered) by Michael Hall.

C10438. -- B1683. Breit, Harvey. "Holmesiana," The New York Times Book Review (January 29, 1956), 8. illus.

John Greaves, personnel officer for Abbey and honorary secretary of the Dickens Fellowship, answers the detective's mail.

C10439. -- B1684. Browne, Peter. "Stand-in for Sherlock," Everybody's Weekly (September 1, 1956), 23. illus.

----------. ----------, The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 100-101.

Samples of letters to Holmes answered by John Greaves.

C10440. -- B1685. Johnson, Terry. "Still They Write to 221b Baker Street, and Sometimes They Get an Answer," Chicago Sunday Tribune (December 2, 1956), IV, 33.

John Greaves, whose office stands where 221b Baker Street would be if the street number existed, has been answering the detective's mail for five years.

C10441. -- B1686. "Maintains the Legend of Sherlock Holmes," The New York World Telegram and Sun (September 8, 1956).

The detective's mail is conscientiously read and answered by John Greaves, "a sentimental businessman dedicated to keeping alive the legend of Sherlock Holmes."

C10442. -- B1687. "Sherlock Doesn't Live Here Any More," The Evening Sun [Baltimore] (December 7, 1956).

John Greaves, a staff officer at Abbey, answers Holmes's mail.

C10443. -- A3642. Hopkirk, Peter. "When Only Holmes Can Help," The Times (December 16, 1967), 1.

----------. ----------, Sherlockiana, 13, Nr. 1-2 (1968), 4.

"Letters addressed to him continue to arrive at Baker Street, many of them with requests for the great detective's help."

C10444. -- B1688. Watts, Granville. "Many Still Confide in Sherlock Holmes," The New York Times (December 12, 1967).

----------. "Mail Still Goes to Sherlock," The Philadelphia Inquirer (December 17, 1967).

----------. "Sherlock's Mail Still Runs Heavy," Rockford Register-Republic (December 18, 1967), B5.

C10445. -- A3649. Oliver, Merle. "Sherlock Holmes Lives! -- And Answers His Mail," The Detroit News Magazine (May 4, 1969), 33-37. illus.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 5, No. 18 (Spring 1969), 343-344.

Extracts of letters from persons who still seek the Master's help. As Holmes no longer resides at 221b, the letters are answered by Janet Hall, an advertising assistant for the Abbey National Building Society at No. 221. In an earlier article entitled "Quick, Watson, the Stamps,"' (New York Sunday News, Magazine Section [April 21, 1968], 16), publicity manager R. Rendel is shown answering Holmes's mail. Sherlockians everywhere salute you Miss Hall and Mr. Rendel!

C10446. -- B1689. "43 Years After Last Book About Fictional Detective ... Sherlock Holmes Still Receives Fan Letters," National Enquirer [Indianapolis] (June 7, 1970).

With a photograph of Sherlock's secretary, Janet Hall, at Abbey.

C10447. -- B1690. Deindorfer, Robert G. "Dear Sherlock Holmes...," Parade: The Sunday Newspaper Magazine (November 19, 1972), 10-11.

With a photograph of Jill Hutton Nicholson, a public relations assistant for Abbey and "secretary" to Mr. Holmes.

C10448. -- B1691. Jeffries, Brian. "Letters to Sherlock Holmes Still Pour into Baker Street; Secretary Answers," Arkansas Gazette (July 22, 1973), 8A. illus.

----------. "It's Called the Case of the Missing Sleuth," The Indianapolis Star (July 22, 1973).

----------. "What's Up on Baker Street? Elementary, My Dear Reader," The Sunday Bulletin [Philadelphia] (July, 22, 1973), IV, 8.

----------. "Mail Floods Sherlock Holmes," The Sunday Oregonian (July 22, 1973.) Post (August 26, 1973), 33.

----------. "Dear Sherlock Holmes ...," Virginian-Pilot (July 22, 1974), C2.

----------. "Letters to Sherlock Holmes," The Washington Post (July 22, 1973, G4.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes Still Sought for Detective Work," Centralia Sentinel (July 24, 1973), A5.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes Lives ... and His Mail Proves It," Times-Union [Albany] (July 25, 1973).

----------. "`Dear Sherlock Holmes ...,'" The New Mexican [Santa Fe] (July 26, 1973), E4.

----------. "Still Writing to Holmes," The Providence Sunday Journal (July 29, 1973).

----------. Sherlock? Letters Say He's Alive." The South Bend Tribune (July 29, 1973).

----------. "Back to Work Any Time Now for Sherlock," Tulsa World/Your World (July 29, 1973).

----------. "Fans of Sherlock Holmes Refuse to Accept Elementary Facts," The Denver Post (August 26, 1973), 33.

C10449. -- B1692. Lampe, David. "Dear Mr. Holmes," Saturday Review of the Arts (January 1973), 15-16.

More about Holmes's secretary, Jill Nicholson.

C10450. -- B1693. Lo Bello, Nino. "Attractive Blonde Answers Letters to Sherlock Holmes," The State Journal [East Lansing, Mich.] (February 28, 1971), F-8.

Includes a photograph of Jill Hutton looking into the Sherlock Holmes file.

C10451. -- B1694. Mulchrone, Vincent. "Now Take an Elementary Letter, My Dear Mrs. N.," The Daily Mail (February 5, 1973). illus.

C10452. -- B1695. Opper, Frederick B. "Detective Sherlock Holmes Is Still Alive and Well to Fans Across World," The Tulsa Tribune (December 10, 1971).

----------. "Yes, Mate, Mister 'olmes Is 'ome in Baker Street," The Sunday Bulletin [Philadelphia] (December 12, 1971).

----------. "Baker Street Is Still Home to Sherlock Holmes and Watson," Sacramento Union (July 16, 1972).

Letters to Holmes, answered by Jill Hutton.

C10453. -- B1696. "The Case of the Missing Boss," Have a Good Day! [Tyndale House Publishers, Weaton, Ill.] 6, No. 10 (February 1974), 2.

"A man who never lived [sic] has a secretary!"

C10454. -- B1697. "`Dear Mr. Holmes,'" SHJ, 11, No. 3 (Winter 1973), 88.

Quotes an anonymous letter to Holmes (via his secretary Leslie Whitson), seeking his assistance in locating a giant-size ball of foil. (Foiled again!)

C10455. -- B1698. Gibson, Enid. "It's Elementary, My Dear Whitson," Lincolnshire Echo (August 17, 1974), 9. illus.

----------. "Many Fans Still Write to Him at Baker St.," Derby Evening Telegraph (August 24, 1974), 10. illus.

----------. "Holmes Lives and Leslie Makes Sure He Keeps up to Date with His Correspondence," Grimsby Evening Telegraph (November 1, 1974). illus.

C10456. -- B1699. [Goodwin, Joseph B.] "The Old Explorer," Drawing by Lisa Biganzoli. National Geographic School Bulletin, 53, No. 11 (November 18, 1974), 174.

The author talks to Holmes's secretary, Leslie Whitson.

C10457. -- B1700. Michalev, P. "Pan Sherlock Holmes se vrátí po svátcích" [Mr. Sherlock Holmes Is Going to Be Back After the Holidays"], 100+1: Zahrani_ní Zajímavost [Praha], 12, No. 22 (1975), 22-23. illus.

A Czech translation of an interview with Leslie Whitson at the Abbey House that first appeared in Komsomolskaja Pravda, Moscow, on February 23, 1975.

C10458. -- B1701. Sinclaire, Joan. "The World's Most Famous Detective in Fiction," Scholastic Scope, 23, No. 1 (September 9, 1975), 13. illus.

----------. ----------, Teacher's Edition of Scholastic Scope, 23, No. 1 (September 9, 1975), 13; T8.

Examples of letters to Holmes -- answered by Leslie Whitson; with a cover illustration of Rathbone as Holmes by Catalano.

C10459. -- B1702. "Thousands of People Believe Sherlock Holmes Is Alive: They Write to Him Seeking Advice," Midnight, 21, No. 35 (March 3, 1975), 13. illus.

C10460. -- B1703. Anthal, Jussi. "Sherlock Holmes fär 50 brev i veckan om olösta kriminalfall!" Expressen [Stockholm] (November 8, 1975), 19.

Illustrated with a photograph of the detective's latest secretary, Chris Bazlinton.

C10461. -- B1704. Cheatham, Thomas. "Sherlock Holmes's Mailbox," The Daily Record [Baltimore] (November 24, 1975), 1, 5.

Chris Bazlinton, Holmes's unsalaried private secretary, faithfully answers all letters addressed to the detective.

C10462. -- B1705. Clift, Jeremy. "Holmes Legend Refuses to Die," Montreal Star (February 16, 1977), F-6.

----------. "Holmes in Banker Guise," The Washington Post (April 14, 1977), 16.

Excerpts of letters to Holmes, received by Chris Bazlinton. Example: "My mom says you're not really a person but that Mr. Doyle made you up. I told her that Mr. D. is your friend and he writes your books because you're too busy."

C10463. -- B1706. "Dear Sherlock Holmes ...," Oxford Mail (January 25, 1977).

Dave Allen of ITV's "Dave Allen and Friends" (Yorkshire, 7:00) visits 221b (the Abbey National Building Society) and discovers that every year about 1,000 letters are received by the detective's secretary, Chris Bazlinton.

C10464. -- B1707. "Hero Lives in the Mail," Philadelphia Daily News (November 24, 1975).

"Many Seek Assistance from Sherlock Holmes," Tulsa World (November 24, 1975).

"`Private Secretary' Answers Letters: Sherlock Holmes Still Lives," The Washington Post (December 7, 1975), D-5.

"Hopeless Cases in (Mail)Bag," Virginian-Pilot [Norfolk] (December 19, 1975).

C10465. -- B1708. Kennedy, Bruce. Letters to 221b. [Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Privately Printed, 1979.] [6] p. illus.

Published in a limited edition of 200 copies for The Baker Street Irregulars on the occasion of Sherlock Holmes's 125th birthday.

C10466. -- B1709. "A Moriarty's in Charge at 221b," Daily Mail (October 14, 1977).

Geraldine Moriarty handles investors' contributions at Abbey. Up on the fourth floor Chris Bazlinton replies to letters addressed to Holmes.

C10467. -- B1710. Peipert, James R. "Detective Holmes' Mailbox Continues to Bulge with Mysteries to Solve," The South Bend Tribune (January 1, 1976), 57.

----------. "`By Jove! You Mean ... ?' `Elementary, Dr. Watson,'" Milwaukee Sentinel (January 15, 1976), 1, 15. illus.

C10468. -- B1711. Phillips, Paul. "Sherlock Holmes Is Alive and Well: Fans Just Won't Let the Super Tec Die," West Essex Gazette and Independent [Epping] (September 24, 1976), 51.

A full-page illustrated interview with Chris Bazlinton, including samples of letters to the detective.

C10469. -- B1712. Rosenblatt, Julia Carlson. "Pilgrimage to Baker Street," SMuse, 3, No. 4 (Winter 1978), 15-16.

An account of Al and Julie Rosenblatt's visit with Holmes's secretary.

C10470. -- B1713. Rowley, Gordon E. "`Dear Sherlock Holmes ...' `My Mom Says You're Not Real,'" The Salt Lake Tribune (July 11, 1976), H-3. illus.

"Chris Bazlinton answers an average of 700 letters a year to the famous detective." His favorite is from a young man in Wickham, Washington: "Dear Sir: How can a fictitious person have a biographer and a secretary? I'm human and I don't have one. This is an outrage!"

C10471. -- B1714. "Sherlock Holmes Is Alive and Well (Still Living in Baker Street)," Kensington News and Post (November 21, 1975).

With a photograph of Chris Bazlinton.

C10472. -- B1715. "Sherlock Holmes Is Busy," Red Star [Soviet Ministry of Defense, Moscow] (January 18, 1976), 3.

C10473. -- B1716. "Sherlock's Mail Keeps Coming," The New Mexican [Santa Fe] (December 17, 1975), A-15.

"Sherlock Homes [sic] Is Alive, Well, and Living in Fans' Mail: And the Fictional Character's Mail Is Being Answered Faithfully," Courier-Post [Camden, N.J.] (December 18, 1975),55.

"Sherlock Holmes Still `World's Foremost Detective,'" Fort Collins Coloradoan (December 18, 1975), 24.

"Sherlock Holmes Lives On: Brisk Demand for Hero's Deductions," The Kansas City Star (December 18, 1975), 14.

"Sherlock Holmes' Fans Still Hound the Fabled Sleuth," New York Post (December 18, 1975).

"Sherlock Holmes Still Receiving Mail," Northwest Arkansas Times [Fayetteville] (December 27, 1975), 2.

"Sherlock Holmes Fan Mail Continues to Flow to 221b Baker St.," St. Paul Dispatch (December 18, 1975).

"Fan Mail Continues to 221b Baker St.," Stevens Points Daily Journal (December 18, 1975).

"Dear Mr. Holmes -- Say `hi' to Dr. Watson for Me," Tulsa Tribune (December 18, 1975), 21-D.

C10474. -- B1717. Sigall, Edward. "Fictional Sherlock Holmes Has a Real-Life Secretary," National Enquirer (October 26, 1976), 10.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 2, No. 2 (May 1979), 142.

With a photograph of Chris Bazlinton.

C10475. -- B1718. Wesley, Brian, and Leslie Toulson. "The Greatest People Who Never Lived," Drawing by Tim Holder. Sun [London] (August 12, 1976).

One of the "larger-than-life" characters discussed is Holmes. Notes the seventy or more letters a week received by his secretary.

C10476. -- B1719. Yuenger, James. "`Mr. Holmes Is Busy and Can't Reply,'" Chicago Tribune (July 30, 1975), 1, 4.

----------. ----------, DCC, 11, Nos. 4-5 (September 1975), 11.

----------. ----------, DCC, 12, No. 1 (November 1975), 6.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes Mystique Survives Sleuth's Creator," The Boston Sunday Globe (August 3, 1975), 53.

"Real secretary answers famed sleuth's fan mail."

C10477. Evans, John. "The Curious Case of the Missing Rolls-Royces," The Evening News (July 28, 1980).

"John Evans investigates one of the pleas for help that still arrive at 221b Baker Street."

C10478. Felmancent, A. "Sherlock Holmes Is Alive and Well," PPofFC, No. 50 (April 7, 1980), insert page.

----------. ----------, PUn, 4, No. 6 (June 1980), 1.

A brief article about the detective's correspondents.

C10479. Green, Benny. "Ghost Writing," What's On in London (January 15, 1982), 14.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 5, No. 2 (June 1982), 449.

"The letters [from Chris Bazlinton] are potentially riveting because they represent the voice of the Great Detective himself."

C10480. Grosvenor, Peter. "Saving Sherlock -- It's Still the Abbey Habit," The Daily Express (January 29, 1981).

----------. ----------, CPBook, 4, No. 1 (March 1981), 319.

"Correspondence has never been brisker at 221b Baker Street."

C10481. Lantin, Barbara. "Something to Write Holmes About," Titbits [London] (November 10, 1979), 18. illus.

"Letters pour in for super sleuth Sherlock -- and they all get an answer."

C10482. "On the Scent of the True Story About That Famous Hound," Sunday Independent [London] (February 6, 1983), 19. ills.

Comments on Sid Tucker's forthcoming publication about Baskerville Hall and letters to 221b, including a photograph of Chris Bazlinton.

C10483. Revan, Philip. "Despite Retirement, Sherlock Holmes Gets Lots of Cases," The Wall Street Journal [Western Edition] (August 25, 1980), 1, 8.

----------. ----------, ND (October 1980), 2.

----------. ----------, PUn, 5, No. 10 (October 1980), 1-2.

----------. ----------, SS (NS), 1, No. 8 (November-December 1980), 2.

----------. ----------, NBSR, 1, No. 1 (June 1981), 5.

----------. ----------, SHWS (November 1982),

----------. "The Game's Afoot! Try Solving This One, Mr. Holmes," The Bulletin [Philadelphia] (August 27, 1980), A17. illus.

"Pleas for aid arrive daily; even more mysterious, the letters are answered."

C10484. "Sherlock Holmes Revealed at Last," Moscow News Weekly (April 8, 1979).

"Abridged from Current."

C10485. Stevenson, Margaret. "Letters from Mr. Holmes," The Evening Dispatch [Darlington] (October 31, 1980). illus.

----------. "Keeping Fans of Sherlock Holmes All Clued Up," Daily Express (November 4, 1980).

----------. "Old Holmes Year," Wantage Herald (November 6, 1980).

----------. "Dear Mr. Holmes," Evening Mail [Slough] (November 19, 1980). illus.

----------. ----------, Life & Leisure Monthly (November-December 1980), 9. illus.

----------. ----------, Wiltshire Gazette and Herald (November 6, 1980). illus.

----------. "Sherlock Is Still Alive," Thurrock Gazette (November 7, 1980). illus.

----------. "Dear Sherlock ... Who Slew My Pooch?" Northern Echo [Darlington] (November 8, 1980). illus.

"Sherlock Holmes is still alive today -- and if you write to him at his old address in Baker Street, London, you will get a letter back to prove it."

C10486. Winter, Geoffrey. "Dear Sherlock ...," The Yorkshire Post [Leeds] (July 31, 1980). illus.

"Letters to Sherlock Holmes still arrive at 221b, Baker Street, London, from all over the world. Geoffrey Winter talks to the famous detective's secretary, who expects a bumper mail this year -- the 50th anniversary of Conan Doyle's death."

C10487. Barrett, Tom. "Elementary, My Dear Sue," News of the World (May 13, 1984), 18. illus.

"Over 1,000 letters a year, addressed to Holmes, arrive on Sue's desk. And she's expecting her postbag to bulge over the next few weeks because of ITV's series, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett as the pipe-smoking private eye."

C10488. Brown, Ian. "Homes from Holmes," Daily Mail (February 25, 1983).

"More than 400 letters every year are written to Sherlock Holmes at 221b Baker Street. They end up on the desk of 28-year-old Sue Brown, a public relations officer with the Abbey National Building Society."

C10489. "Communicator Oversees Sherlock Holmes Affairs," Communication World, 4, No. 6 (May 1987), 7, 9. illus.

With a Sherlockian cover photograph, taken by Randolph Falk at the Sherlock Holmes Museum, Holiday Inn, Union Square, San Francisco.

C10490. Dawes, Martin. "Dear Mr. Holmes, I Have This Problem ...," The Star [Sheffield] (January 3, 1986).

"Describes how the legend lives on ... by letter."

C10491. Fletcher, Nick. "`Watson, I'm Afraid You Have to Go,'" Chronicle and Echo (March 23, 1983). illus.

----------. "Elementary, My Dear Sue," Evening Echo and Post (April 18, 1983). illus.

----------. "A Baker Street Irregularity -- Dr. Watson Is Now a Woman," Wolverhampton Express & Star (April 20, 1983). illus.

"Sherlock Holmes is still inundated with letters ... And Sue Brown has taken over."

C10492. Hesp, Martin. "Hot on the Trail of Sherlock Holmes," Kent Evening Post (December 30, 1985). illus.

"For 50 years, Sherlock Holmes has had his letters answered by a succession of secretaries who work for a London building society. Currently the great man is being asked to trace a peanut thief in Kansas, the chopstick murderer of Nagasaki ... and use his influence to end the nuclear arms race!"

C10493. "`It's Quite Elementary, My Dear Watson,'" Chronicle and Echo [Northampton] (December 23, 1985).

"Every year, hundreds of birthday cards arrive for Holmes and are dealt with by a secretary who has volunteered to look after the sleuth's correspondence."

C10494. Koestler, Frances A. "Opening Mail for Sherlock Holmes," Newsday [New York] (September 6, 1985), II, 2. illus.

C10495. McKenzie, Alex. "Secretary to a Man Who Never Lived," South Wales Echo [Cardiff] (November 15, 1983)

----------. "Sue Is Secretary to Sherlock Holmes!" Hereford Evening News (November 16, 1983). illus.

----------. "Holmes Lives -- and Susan Is Paid to Prove It," Southend Evening Echo (November 17, 1983). illus.

"Meet a girl with a job that nobody believes she does ..."

C10496. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Holmes," In Britain (December 1983). (In Britain Diary)

----------, PPofFC, No. 68 (January 28, 1984), 4.

After a discussion of Holmes's latest secretary and mention of the re-creation of the sitting room at The Sherlock Holmes, the article notes two additions to a Sherlockian's itinerary in London: Moriarty's Wine Bar, underneath The Mitre in Lancaster Mews, "decorated in Victorian style with mementos of Sherlock Holmes's perennial foe," and a small pub, just inside the Baker Street Underground station, bearing the name of Holmes's "intellectual equal and arch enemy."

C10497. "Sherlock Holmes Is Alive and Well," Evening Argus [Brighton/Sussex] (November 24, 1983).

"Sue holds the clues to the man who cannot die."

C10498. "Sherlock's Assistant," Doncaster Star (May 13, 1983).

"Almost 100 years after the first Sherlock Holmes story was written, the world's most famous detective has a new assistant -- a woman."

C10499. Stein, Ruthe. "Sherlock Holmes Still Lives at 221-B Baker Street," San Francisco Chronicle (October 29, 1985), 19-20. illus.

"Holmes fans from around the world deluge the famous sleuth with letters."

C10500. "The Super Sleuth's New Secretary," Liverpool Echo (April 20, 1983).

"Sue Brown (28) has been officially given the post of `Dr. Watson' at 221b Baker Street, London, to deal with the hundreds of letters which still arrive for the Great Detective."

C10501. "Holmes Keeps Bees While Abbey National Keeps Legend Alive," Variety, 329 (January 20, 1988), 156.

"Nikki Caparn is employed fulltime by Abbey National as its Sherlock Holmes secretary, replying to 100 or more letters weekly addressed to Holmes. He also greets fans and naive tourists -- from the U.S., Russia, Japan, China, and most other countries -- who wander into the Abbey foyer."

C10502. Rule, Sheila. "Sherlock Holmes's Mail: Not Too Mysterious," The New York Times (November 5, 1989), I, 20.

----------. ----------, MSB, 12, No. 7 (January 1990), 5-6.

A brief report announcing the retirement of Nikki Caparn, who will be replaced by Tony Harries.

C10503. Slade, Paul. "Holmes Help," Money Marketing (July 20, 1988. p. 21. illus.

An interview with Sherlock Holmes's secretary.

C10504. Gilles, Stuart. "Tony, Head of the Holmes' Service," Manchester Evening News (April 4, 1990). illus.

An interview with Holmes's new secretary in which he discusses the hundred plus letters written to the detective each week and his trip to the U.S. where he hopes to tour and give lectures on what it is like to be Sherlock's secretary in the 20th century.

C10505. Mathieson, Karen. "A Brilliant Deduction You Can Bank On! He's Keeper of the Holmes Legend," The Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer (August 19, 1990), K1, K6. illus.

Harries meets with The Sound of the Baskervilles and discusses his duties as Holmes's secretary.

C10506. Pauly, Brett. "Holmes Where a Fan's Heart Is," Daily News/L.A. Life [Los Angeles] (August 26, 1990), 5. illus.

----------. ----------, Tiger Tales, No. 10 (April 1991), 3.

"Faithful secretary is keeping sleuth's fabled mystique alive." (Subtitle)

With a photograph of Harries reading some of the letters imploring for his boss's deductive genius.

C10507. Snapp, Martin. "The Case of the Slippery Scribe," The Tribune [Oakland] (August 7, 1990). (Eastbay Ear)

Harries visits the Bay Area and meets with The Scowrers and Molly Maguires at the S. Holmes, Esq. pub.

C10508. Thomas, William. "Literary License: Secretary's Letters Keep Sherlock Holmes Alive," The Commercial Appeal [Memphis] (July 27, 1990).

An interview with Harries, who is touring American cities, including Memphis.

C10509. Wood, Benton. "Lapses in the Apses," BSS, 2, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 1-2.

Briefly mentions the Wood's visit with Tony Harries; and includes photographs of Holmes's secretary and the BSI chaplain.

C10510. Elsdon-Dew, Mark. "Sherlock's Homes -- A New Mystery," International Express (January 18, 1991). illus.

----------. ----------, NFTD, 12, No. 1 (March 1991), 6.

Erica Harper and John Aidiniantz discuss the problem of where the Post Office should deliver Holmes's letters -- to Abbey or the Museum. (If the Sussex bee farm is ever located, Holmes's mail could be sent directly to him!)

C10511. Wiggins, Elizabeth. "Dear Mr. Holmes...," SHG, No. 1 (May 4, 1991), 17. illus.

"Answering the mail keeps Erica busy."

C10512. Wiggins, Elizabeth. "Writing to Sherlock," SHG, No. 4 (Spring 1992), 34.

Letters from the desk of Erica Harper, with a photograph of Holmes's secretary.

C10513. Cuthbertson, James R. A Study in Banking. Wareham, Dorset: [Privately Printed], 1989. 27 p. illus.

"An investigation of the relationship of Mr. Sherlock Holmes with his bank." (Subtitle)

Reviews: Banking World, 7, No. 7 (July 1989), 8; Daily Telegraph (May 24, 1989), 18 (Peterborough); Economist (August 12, 1989), and reprinted in LCH (July-September 1989), 10; Evening Echo (June 21, 1989) (David Radcliff); PM, No. 1 (June 1989), 7 (Christopher Roden); SHJ, 19, No. 3 (Winter 1989), 96 (Nicholas Utechin); Swanage & Wareham Advertiser (July 6, 1989).

C10514. Rigby, Edward. "Dr. John Watson: On Matters of Money," The Thorndyke File, No. 17 (Spring 1984), 20-24.

A look at the banking expertise of Holmes, as seen through the eyes of his biographer.

See also Collecting Sherlockiana

C10515. -- A3694. Baring-Gould, William S. "The Bibliographical Holmes: A Selective Compilation," Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1962]. Appendix 2, p. 321-336.

Contents: The Writings of John H. Watson, M.D. -- The Writings of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. -- The Writings of Dr. Conan Doyle. -- The Higher Criticism. -- Parodies, Pastiches, and the Tales-in-Verse. -- Books, Articles, and Short Stories of Related Interest.

A well-organized bibliography that is especially valuable because of its annotations.

C10516. -- A3695. Baring-Gould, William S. "Some of `The Writings About the Writings,'" The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1967]. Vol. 2, p. 807-824.

A comprehensive listing of 834 books and articles, with annotations for many of them appearing throughout the author's monumental study of the Sacred Writings.

C10517. -- A3696. Barzun, Jacques, and Wendell Hertiz Taylor. A Catalogue of Crime. New York: Harper & Row, [1971]. xxxi, 831 p.

A critical inventory of the genre, including the Sherlock Holmes novels, collected short stories, and selected writings (p. 165-166, 488-492, and 685-698). The book is appropriately dedicated "to Poe's progeny who purloined the letter and disseminated the spirit."

Review: BSJ, 21, No. 1 (March 1971), 44-48 (Julian Wolff).

C10518. -- A3697. Bengis, Nathan L. "Bibliographical Notes," BSJ [OS], 4, No. 1 (January 1949), 128-129; (NS), 2, No. 1 (January 1952), 40-43.

Definitive information on seven volumes in the "Souvenir Edition" published by George Newnes between 1901 and 1906.

C10519. -- A3698. Bergman, Ted. "Bibliografiska noteringar" ["Bibliographical Notes"], BSCL, No. 3 (1964), 7-10.

A description of some little-known Swedish editions of the stories.

C10520. -- A3699. Bergman, Ted. "Good Old Index," BSCL, No. 2- (July 1963-).

The Swedish counterpart to the "Baker Street Inventory."

C10521. -- A3700. Bergman, Ted. Index. The Solitary Cyclists of Stockholm, 1965. 1 leaf (laid in BSCL, No. 4).

----------. ----------. 1968. 1 leaf (laid in BSCL, No. 6).

Briefly annotated listings of articles published in The Baker Street Cab Lantern.

C10522. -- A3701. Bergman, Ted. Sherlock Holmes, 1891-1916. [Stockholm]: The Baker Street Cab Lantern, 1964. [40] p. illus.

Limited to 75 numbered copies.

"A bibliography enumerating and describing eighty-three original and variant editions of the Swedish translations of Dr. John H. Watson's Sherlock Holmes stories."

Review: SHJ, 7, No. 2 (Spring 1965), 60-61 (Lord Donegall).

C10523. -- A3703. Blau, Peter E. A Sherlockian Discography. [Pittsfield, Mass.: The Spermaceti Press, 1972.] [7] p.

"Published for the Annual Dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars, 7 January 1972."

C10524. -- A3704. Blau, Peter E. "The Sherlockian EQMM," The Queen Canon Bibliophile, 2, No. 1 (February 1970), 15-16.

A chronological list of seventy-one items published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between March 1943 and February 1969.

C10525. -- A3705. Boucher, Anthony. "Holmesiana Hispanica," BSJ [OS], 2, No. 3 (July 1947), 360-365. (Bibliographical Notes)

Contents: Introduction -- Translations. -- Anthology Appearances. -- Critique. -- Dramatization. -- Pastiches. -- Dramatic Pastiches. -- Film Pastiche. -- Parodies. -- References.

C10526. -- A3706. Cameron, Mary S. "Bibliographical Notes," BSJ, 8, No. 3 (July 1958), 169-173.

Bibliographical details on a hitherto unknown edition of the Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Sign of Four, published by James Askew and Son.

C10527. -- A3707. Christ, Jay Finley. The Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Arranged Alphabetically and Chronologically. [Harbert, Mich.]: Privately Printed, 1959. 34 p.

Primarily a non-Sherlockian bibliography, but included because of its importance to the Conan Doyle researcher.

Review: SHJ, 4, No. 4 (Spring 1960), 132 (James Edward Holroyd).

C10528. -- A3708. Christ, Jay Finley. Sherlock Comes to America. [Michigan City, Ind.: Privately Printed], 1952. [4] p.

A discussion of the earliest periodical appearances of the tales in the U.S.

C10529. -- A3709. Dalliba, W. Swift. First Editions and Issues of the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: [Privately Produced], March 9, 1956. 2 p.

C10530. -- A3710. Dalliba, W. Swift. A List of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Books (with Bibliographical Notes). Part I. English Firsts, Sets, Omnibus and Variant Editions; Continental and Foreign Editions. New York: [Privately Produced], March 13, 1953. 5 p.

C10531. -- A3711. Dalliba, W. Swift. The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1903-04-05: Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Notes. New York: [Privately Produced], March 12, 1954. 7 p.

C10532. -- A3712. De Waal, Ronald Burt. "A Bibliography of Sherlockian Bibliographies," The American Book Collector, 20, No. 2 (October 1969), 13-18.

----------. Revised and enlarged with title: "A Bibliography of Sherlockian Bibliographies and Periodicals," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 64, Third Quarter (1970), 339-354.

An annotated listing of bibliographies compiled by some of the foremost Holmes scholars. The list contains bibliographies of English and foreign language editions and periodical appearances of the tales, parodies and pastiches, articles, books, manuscripts, films and plays, exhibition and archival materials, and other miscellany, including the literary works of Sherlock Holmes. The enlarged version lists twenty-eight Sherlockian serial publications. (The same bibliographies appear in The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but are listed by subject, with the general bibliographies appearing here.)

C10533. -- A3713. Dickensheet, Dean W. Sherlockiana in "The Saint Detective Magazine" (Spring 1953-October 1958), and "The Saint Mystery Magazine" (November 1958-August 1960, September 1961- ). Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, March 1963. 1 p.

C10534. -- A3714. Dickensheet, Dean W., and J. R. Christopher. "The Sherlockiana of Anthony Boucher: A Bibliographic Study," VH, 5, No. 2 (April 1971), 2-4; 5, No. 3 (September 1971), 8-10.

An annotated listing of Boucher's many contributions to the literature.

C10535. -- A3715. Dickensheet, Dean W., and William Goodrich. A List of Sherlockiana Appearing in The Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, November 1963. 1 p.

C10536. -- A3716. Donegall, Lord. "`I Am an Omnivorous Reader,'" SHJ, 5, No. 3- (Winter 1961- ).

The British counterpart to the "Baker Street Inventory." While not as comprehensive as the "Inventory," it provides excellent reviews of the monographic publications.

C10537. -- A3717. Feldman, Lew David. Doyle-ia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Tres: A Catalogue of the Opera. Jamaica, N.Y.: House of El Dieff, 1955. 56 p.

Contents: That Which Was in the Library of A. Conan Doyle. -- That Which Was Written by A. Conan Doyle. -- That Which Was Recorded by John H. Watson, M.D. Concerning His Friend Sherlock Holmes. -- Supplement: Books from the Library of Vincent Starrett.

C10538. -- A3718. Feldman, Lew David. "Hitherto Unrecorded First Separate Editions," BSG, 1, No. 1 (1961), 17-20. (Bibliography)

A brief note on and illustrations of five booklets by A. Conan Doyle in The Handy Classic Series, two of which are Iden and Scan.

C10539. -- A3719. [Feldman, Lew David.] 103rd Birthday of Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street Irregulars, Annual Dinner, New York City. Jamaica, N.Y.: House of El Dieff, January 11, 1957. [4] p.

A brochure describing the author's adventures with first editions of the Canon, including his possession of copies of the George Newnes Adventures and Memoirs in dust jackets.

C10540. -- A3722. Ivanov, Christine. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Milwaukee: [Writer's Bibliographic Service], 1947. 8 p.

"A bibliography selected and arranged for feature writers, newspaper reporters, and librarians." (Subtitle)

C10541. -- A3723. Kondratieve, Yu. ["Checklist"], 1961 S'ian Who's Who and What's What. Edited by W. T. Rabe. Ferndale, Mich.: Old Soldiers of Baker Street, 1961. p. 122.

A list of some Sherlock Holmes stories published in the USSR in Russian and English, including articles by Soviet authors on the subject.

C10542. -- A3724. la Cour, Tage. "Sherlock Holmes i Skandinavien," Studier i rødt. København: Carit Andersens Forlag, 1956. p. 103-105.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes in Scandinavia," Tr. by Poul Ib Liebe. Sherlock Holmes at Elsinore, by Carl Muusmann. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1956. p. 5-6.

----------. ----------, The American Book Collector, 9, No. 9 (May 1959), 22-23.

A discussion of the various translations and imitations of the Canonical tales in Scandinavia.

C10543. -- A3725. la Cour, Tage. "Some Scandinavian Items to the Baker Street Inventory," SHJ, 3, No. 3 (Autumn 1957), 8-10.

A brief history of Sherlockian publications in Scandinavia, including a list of thirty-one items.

C10544. -- A3726. Locke, Harold. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., LL.D., 1879-1928. Tunbridge Wells: D. Webster, 1928. 84 p.

Contents: Introductory Note. -- Contributions to Magazines. -- Pamphlets. -- Plays. -- Prefaces. -- Published Works. -- Uniform Editions. -- Index.

Incomplete and occasionally not quite accurate, but a valuable bibliography nonetheless, containing much of interest on the appearance of the tales.

C10545. -- A3729. Nordon, Pierre. "Bibliographie," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. l'Homme et l'Oeuvre. [Paris]: Didier, [1964]. p. 439-456.

----------, "Bibliography," Conan Doyle. Tr. by Frances Partridge. [London]: John Murray, [1966]. p. 347-360.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. p. 347-360.

The bibliography is divided into three sections: Bibliography: Works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Biographical Archives; and General Sources. The first section is a supplement to Harold Locke's Bibliographical Catalogue; the second, a brief list of some archival material in the family estate; and the third, a checklist of 145 publications, 37 of which are concerned with Sherlock Holmes.

C10546. -- A3730. Queen, Ellery. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1942. 146 p.

An impressive listing, partly annotated, with twenty-seven Sherlockian items, mostly parodies and pastiches, as well as several anthologies in which some of the Canonical tales appear.

C10547. -- A3731. Queen, Ellery. "Introduction," Illustrious Client's Second Case-Book. Edited by J. N. Williamson. [Indianapolis, Ind.: The Illustrious Clients, 1949.] p. 1-9.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes First Editions: A New and Revised Catalogue of the Queen Collection," EQMM, 23, No. 123 (February 1954), 65-73.

----------. ----------, Antiquarian Bookman, 14, No. 7 (August 14, 1954), 387-390.

A listing and discussion of seventeen "keystone" books in this remarkable collection.

C10548. -- A3733. Randall, David A. "A Tentative Enquiry into the Earliest Printings, in Book Form, of the First Four Sherlock Holmes Short Stories: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, and The Boscombe Valley Mystery; With a Conclusion Tending to Prove That in the Case of Two of Them Certainly, and Two of Them Possibly--America First!" BSJ [OS], 2, No. 4 (October 1947), 491-496. (Bibliographical Notes)

C10549. -- A3734. Schutz, Robert H. A List of Bibliographical References to Editions of the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Arnsworth Castle Business Index, August 1963-February 1964. 13 p.

A checklist, in nine parts, covering the Canon from A Study in Scarlet to The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

C10550. -- A3735. Shaw, John Bennett. [Checklist. Tulsa, Okla.; Santa Fe, N.M.] loose-leaf vols.

The dean of Sherlockian collectors has compiled and maintained a list of Sherlockiana, from 1890 to 1993, arranged under the headings: Books and Pamphlets, Reviews, Scion Material, and Periodical Material.

C10551. -- A3736. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Abstracts of English Studies. Vol. 13, No. 7- (March 1970- ).

A University of Colorado publication in which Thomas W. Ross of Colorado College contributed excellent summaries of articles in BSJ.

C10552. -- A3737. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries. [London]: Mansell, 1971. Vol. 148, p. 237-286.

----------, The National Union Catalog, 1956 through 1967. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Lifflefield, [1971]. Vol. 31, p. 44-46.

The longest and most valuable catalog of books by Doyle published to date. There are 1341 items in vol. 148 and 71 in vol. 31, many in other languages, with location symbols for the various libraries. This is a catalog that all Sherlockian collectors and scholars will find extremely useful. A photocopy of the 53 folio pages can be obtained from most large academic and public libraries. The catalog is kept up to date with monthly, quarterly, and annual supplements.

C10553. -- A3738. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Edited by George Watson. Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. Vol. 3, p. 1046-1048.

A modest listing of 132 items; about half of them are concerned with Sherlock Holmes.

C10554. -- A3739. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Victorian Studies, 1, No. 4- (June 1958- ).

In the annual "Victorian Bibliography," edited by Ronald E. Freeman and published in the June issue, Professor Lauterbach of Purdue University has been, since 1965, responsible for several briefly annotated items on Sherlock Holmes.

C10555. -- A3740. Skeppstedt, Ingvar. "Jämforelse mellan några svenska Holmes-översättare," BSCL, No. 8 (1970), 12-18; two appendixes laid in.

A comparison of five Swedish translations.

C10556. -- A3741. Smith, Edgar W. Baker Street Inventory. An Elementary Bibliography. New York: The Pamphlet House, 1944. 34 p.

A preliminary bibliography to the one listed below.

C10557. -- A3742. Smith, Edgar W. Baker Street Inventory: A Sherlockian Bibliography. Summit, N.J.: The Pamphlet House, 1945. 81 p.

Limited to 300 numbered copies.

Contents: Introduction. -- The Sacred Writings: First Editions and Other Book Appearances; Omnibus Editions. -- The Apocrypha. -- The Higher Criticism: Biographies; Collected Essays and Criticism; Reference Works and Miscellaneous.

The first and most comprehensive annotated bibliography published up to the appearance of the World Bibliography. All the items in Edgar Smith's Inventory, as well as those in the BSJ "Inventory," are included in The Universal Sherlock Holmes.

C10558. -- A3743. Smith, Edgar W. "Baker Street Inventory," BSJ [OS], 1-4 (January 1946-January 1949); (NS), 1-10 (January 1951-December 1960).

Of the fifty-eight issues, including five Christmas Annuals, of the Journal that were edited by Edgar Smith, forty-one contain a supplement to his Inventory.

C10559. -- A3744. Smith, Edgar W. Sherlock Holmes: The Writings of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department (Pseud. A. Conan Doyle): A Bibliography of the Sixty Tales Comprising the Canon. [Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1962.] 119 p. illus.

Contents: Preface. -- Introduction by Vincent Starrett. -- Bibliography: A. Book Editions. The Sixty Tales Comprising the Canon: 1. A Study in Scarlet 1887. -- 2. The Sign of the Four 1890. -- 3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892. -- 4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1894. -- 5. The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902. -- 6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1905. -- 7. His Last Bow 1917. -- 8. The Valley of Fear 1915. -- 9. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 1927. -- "Pastiches": 10. The Field Bazaar 1947. -- 11. How Watson Learned the Trick 1947. -- Plays: 12. The Speckled Band 1912. -- 13. The Crown Diamond 1958. -- B. Collected Editions. -- C. Periodical Contributions.

This is a revision and extension of the bibliography serialized under the title "Bibliographical Notes" in BSJ during 1955, 1956, and 1957. As stated in the compiler's preface, it is "a comprehensive and definitive listing of all the first and other important book editions of the Sherlockian Tales, of the collections embracing them, of their first periodical appearances, and of the plays, pastiches, and miscellanea by Dr. Doyle having to do with Sherlock Holmes."

C10560. -- A3745. "Some Press Cuttings on the Centenary, 1954," SHJ, 2, No. 1 (July 1954), 10.

Twenty-three items, arranged chronologically from January 6 to March 5, about the 100th birthday of Doyle.

C10561. -- A3746. Starrett, Vincent. "A Selected Bibliography," The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933. p. 199-214.

----------. ----------, ----------. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd., 1934. p. 185-199.

A selection of the more interesting and most important items, some briefly annotated, in the author's collection.

C10562. -- A3747. Williams, H. B. "Bibliographical Notes," BSJ Christmas Annual, No. 4 (1959), 293-295.

Contents: An Unlisted "Study in Scarlet"? -- The Case of the Golden Blonde.

C10563. -- A3748. Wolff, Julian. "Baker Street Inventory," BSJ, 11- (March 1961- ).

When Dr. Wolff succeeded Edgar Smith as editor of BSJ, he also assumed responsibility for maintaining this invaluable section of the Journal.

C10564. -- B1755. Austin, Bliss. "Bibliomania," by The Engineer's Thumb. ND (June 1978), 2-3; (July 1978), 3-4; (August 1978), 3; (September 1978), 5-6; (November 1978), 4-5; (January 1979), 4-6; (February 1979), 4-5; (May 1979), 5-6; (June 1979), 10-11; (July 1979), 5-6; (August 1979), 7-9; (October 1979), 2-5.

"A series of short notes pointing out some of the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting first or other notable editions of the Canon and describing some of the bibliographic `points' of which a would-be purchaser should be aware."

C10565. -- B1756. Austin, Bliss. "George Newnes and A Study in Scarlet," SHJ, 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1978), 108.

Relates an important bibliographic discovery that like Sign, Houn, and Vall, Stud also was published serially-in Tit-Bits.

C10566. -- B1757. Austin, Bliss. I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere. Pittsburgh: Hydraulic Press, 1973. [4] p. illus. (A Baker Street Christmas Stocking, No. 19)

Valuable comments on newspaper appearances of some Canonical tales.

C10567. -- B1758. Austin, Bliss. "The Perennial Pride of the Paperbacks," SOS, 6, No. 2 (September 15, 1972), 4-7.

A commentary on the paperback editions of the Canon.

C10568. -- B1759. Austin, Bliss. "A Study in Dust Jackets," The American Book Collector, 26, No. 2 (November-December 1975), 31-36.

Dust wrappers for a number of first editions are described and illustrated. These include the English editions of the Adventures, the Memoirs, and the Case Book; also the American editions of the Adventures, the Hound, the Return, and His Last Bow. Some questions about the dust jacket for the English Hound are also discussed.

C10569. -- B1731. Campbell, Constant. Elementary ... A Beginner's Guide to Sherlock Holmes. Cleveland Public Library, 1975. [4] p. (75-2000)

Prepared for Cleveland's Canonical Convention, April 25-26, 1975.

C10570. -- B1732. De Waal, Ronald Burt. The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Classified and Annotated List of Materials Relating to Their Lives and Adventures. Boston: New York Graphic Society, [1974]. xiv, 526 p. illus.

Edition of 3,000 copies in slipcase.

Winner of the 1976 John H. Jenkins Award for the best work of bibliography published in the U.S. during 1974.

----------. ----------. New York: Bramhall House, [1977]. xiv, 526 p. illus.

Edition of 15,396 copies.

Jacket illustration of a stained glass window by Conrad Pichel in the O'Shaughnessy Library, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.

Reviews: American Book Collector, 26 (November-December 1975), 2-3 (Glenn Joseph Shea); American Libraries, 7 (September 1976), 529; American Reference Books Annual, 7 (1976), 581 (Bohdan S. Wynar); The Armchair Detective, 8, No. 2 (February 1975), 145-146 (Jon L. Lellenberg); Bookseller (February 15, 1975), 684; (March 1, 1975), 1574; Bulletin des bibliothéques de France, 22 (February 1977), 410 (Martine Barniaud); Choice, 12 (September 1975), 815; DCC, 11, No. 1 (December 1974), 7 (Glenn Shea); El Paso Times (March 23, 1975) (Dale L. Walker); Evening Standard (March 4, 1975), Expressen [Stockholm] (March 27, 1975) (Jörgen Elgström); Fort Collins Coloradoan (February 24, 1975), 7; Jury, 4, Nr. 3 (1975), 52-53 (Ted Bergman); Library Journal, 100 (July 1975), 1306 (Mark Piel); Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (February 23, 1975), D-8 (Frederick Shroyer); O.P. Bookseller, 1 (February 1978), 32 (Robert F. Hanson); Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 70 (April-June 1976), 288 (Richard D. Thompson); Press-Telegram [Long Beach] (October 8, 1975) (Nat Honig), and reprinted in Independent [Long Beach] (October 9, 1975); Punch, 268 (June 18, 1975), 1086-1087 (Barry Took), and reprinted in part in Sherlockiana, 20, Nr. 4 (1975), 18; Republican and American [Waterbury, Conn.] (July 27, 1975), and reprinted in San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle/This World (August 10, 1975); San Francisco Chronicle (March 11, 1976), 37 (Lenore Glen Offord); San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle/This World (October 23, 1977), 55 (Lenore Glen Offord); Sherlock Holmes (July 1976), 55 (Ron Haydock) (E-GO Collectors Series, No. 3); SHJ, 12, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 31-32 (Nicholas Utechin), Sherlockiana, 20, Nr. 2-3 (1975), 13 (Henry Lauritzen); Sunday News [Detroit] (May 4, 1975) (W. T. Rabe); VTM [Praha], 12 (1975), 419-420 (Rudolf _echura); Wilson Library Bulletin, 50 (December 1975), 330 (Charles Bunge); 52 (February 1978), 504.

C10571. -- B1733. Doolittle, Clare S., and Katharine S. Johnson. Books & Miscellany Relating to Sherlock Holmes. Wakefield, R. I.; Washington, D. C.: [Privately Produced, 1974]. 4 p.

A list of items for sale from the collection of the compilers' late father, Chief Justice Clarence A. Southerland of Wilmington, Del.

C10572. -- B1734. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. An Informal Conan Doyle Bibliography: From the Preface of the Crowborough Edition. [San Francisco: Privately Produced, 1973.] 3 p.

"Prepared by Ed Merrill for distribution at `An Evening with Conan Doyle,' The Bohemian Club."

----------. ----------, A reading by Ted Schulz. VH, 8, No. 1 (January 1974), 9-10.

C10573. -- B1735. Fradkin, Lloyd Alan. A Listing Some of the Works and Articles of A. Conan Doyle in Alphabetical Order. [North Hollywood, Calif.: Privately Produced, 1973] [16] p.

C10574. -- B1736. Goldscheider, Gaby. Conan Doyle Bibliography: A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., LL.D. (1859-1930). Windsor: Gaby Goldscheider, 1977. 40 p.

A useful checklist of 1,158 numbered items by and about Sir Arthur, with an attractive cover illustration by James Greig from the Windsor Magazine, Christmas 1895.

Reviews: BSM, No. 12 (December 1977), 23-24 (Peter E. Blau); SHJ, 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1978), 127 (Nicholas Utechin).

C10575. -- B1738. Hollyer, Cameron. The Body in the Library: An Inquest into the Materials Available for the Study of Detective Fiction. Compiled by Cameron Hollyer ... for the Workshop on the Other Literatures, November 9, 1974, sponsored by the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. 15 p.

A selective bibliography of the genre, including Sherlock Holmes, in the Metropolitan Toronto Library.

C10576. -- B1742. Hubin, Allen J. The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975. San Diego: University Extension, University of California; in cooperation with Publisher's Inc., Del Mar, Calif. xiv, 697 p.

An indispensable checklist, by the editor of The Armchair Detective, of "all mystery, detective, suspense, police, and gothic fiction in book form published in the English language," with a 244-page title index by Hubin's son Loren. Obviously, many Sherlockian books are included in this superb bibliography.

C10577. -- B1744. Lellenberg, Jon L. "`For that gap on the second shelf,'" BSM, No. 2 (July 1975), 17-18.

"A list of books and other items of Sherlockian interest which will appear in 1975 and 1976."

C10578. -- B1746. Mundell, E. H., Jr., and G. Jay Rausch. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography and Index. Manhattan: Kansas State University Library, 1974. iv, 493 p. (Bibliography Series, No. 14)

"Designed as an expansion and updating of Queen's The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography," (DA3730) it lists the stories by Doyle as well as a number of Sherlockian parodies and pastiches.

C10579. -- B1747. Patterson, Margaret C. "V.I.P. Publications: An International Bibliography of 300 Newsletters, Journals, and Miscellanea," Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes, 30, No. 4 (October December 1973), 156-169.

Among the 304 serial publications listed under 163 authors, composers, statesmen, and artists, 34 are devoted to Sherlock Holmes. The information for these was furnished by Ronald B. De Waal.

C10580. -- B1748. Peck, Andrew Jay. Sherlockiana. [Bronx, N.Y.: Privately Produced, 1974.] [94] p.

An impressive and well-organized list of items in the compiler's collection.

C10581. -- B1750. Redmond, Donald A. A Checklist of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Central Library. Toronto, Ontario: Metropolitan Toronto Library Board, 1973. 113 p. illus.

An invaluable listing of items gathered together primarily from the collections of Arthur Baillie, S. Tupper Bigelow, Nathan L. Bengis, and Harold Mortlake.

Reviews: SHJ, 11, No. 3 (Winter 1973), 106 (James Edward Holroyd); Sherlockiana, 18, Nr. 4 (1973), 17.

C10582. -- B1751. Redmond, Donald A. A Checklist of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Central Library. 2nd ed. Toronto, Ontario: Metropolitan Toronto Library Board, 1977. 172 p.

Reviews: BSM, No. 10 (June 1977), 19 (Jon L. Lellenberg); Library Review [Westminster City Libraries] (1977), 243 (K. C. Karrison); NNCC, 2, No. 4 (1977), 5 (Daniel P. King).

C10583. -- B1760. Redmond, Donald A. "The Souvenir Edition of The Sign of Four," The American Book Collector, 26, No. 2 (November-December 1975), 48-49.

At least five variants of the Newnes "Souvenir" editions were issued from plates later used by Smith, Elder. Evidence of the defective type identifies the plates. It appears that the Ward, Lock sheets of a new type setting were purchased by Newnes; the Lock title page cancelled, and a "souvenir edition" issued commemorating Holmes's "death" at the Reichenbach, just announced. By 1902 new preliminary matter had been set and new issues appeared as variants.

C10584. -- B1752. Reece, Benny R. A Bibliography of First Appearances of the Writings by A. Conan Doyle. [Greenville, S. C.]: Furman University, 1975. 48 p.

First printing limited to 300 numbered copies.

"The intent of this work is to record for collectors the earliest appearances in print of the works of A. Conan Doyle. This effort is necessarily an extension and correction of Harold Locke, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [DA3726]." (Preface)

C10585. -- B1753. Rodrigues, Jaime. Bibliografia Brasileira de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Incluindo Publicacòes em Revistas, Antologias e Estudos Sobre o Criador de Sherlock Holmes. Rio de Janeiro: [Privately Produced], 1975. [11] p.

Contents: Série Contos e Novelas Fantásticas. -- Série Ficcào Histórica. -- Série Sherlock Holmes.

C10586. -- B1754. Shea, Glenn J. The Sherlock Holmes Collection of Glenn J. Shea. [Jewett City, Conn.: Privately Produced, 1976.] 16 p.

Contents: 1. The Canon. -- 2. Works by the Agent, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. -- 3. Biographies of Conan Doyle. -- 4. The Writings About the Writings. -- 5. Record Albums. -- 6. Sculpture, Artwork, Miscellany. -- 7. Material by and Relating to William Gillette. -- Additions.

C10587. Adey, Robert. Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes. [London]: Ferret, [1979]. 190 p.

A bibliography of nearly 1300 contributions to the literature of impossible crimes, including those with Sherlock Holmes (p. 9, 62-63, 152). The first hundred copies also contain an inserted leaflet entitled A Nineteenth Century Debacle, by George Locke.

C10588. Austin, Bliss. "Bibliomania," by The Engineer's Thumb. ND (December 1979), 3-5; (August 1980), 3-4; (December 1980), 4-5; (April 1981), 3-4; (May 1981), 5-6 (June 1981), 5-6.

A continuation of DB1755.

C10589. Austin, Bliss. "Dust-Jackets Revisited, with Some Observations on The Strand Magazine," BSM, No. 51 (Autumn 1987), 8-21. illus.

A valuable update, with sixteen illustrations, of Austin's earlier article entitled "A Study in Dust Jackets" (DB1759).

C10590. Barnes, Melvyn. Murder in Print. [London]: Barn Owl Books, [1986]. xii, 244 p.

"A guide to two centuries of crime fiction," with listings for Doyle, Derleth, and other Sherlockian authors.

C10591. "Baron Tauchnitz," The Bookman [N.Y.], 2, No. 2 (October 1895), 156-158. illus.

A tribute to Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz (1816-1895), the German Publisher who issued over three-thousand volumes of the "Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition," which included some of the Holmes stories.

C10592. Barzun, Jacques, and Wendell Hertig Taylor. A Catalogue of Crime. Rev. and enl. ed. New York: Harper & Row, [1989]. xxxvi, 952 p.

"Being a reader's guide to the literature of mystery, detection, and related genres." (Jacket)

A revision of the authors' earlier work (DA3696), with more indexed references for Doyle than any other author (110), plus a special section entitled "The Literature of Sherlock Holmes: Studies and Annotations of the Tales, Nonfiction Parodies, and Critical Pastiches," with 80 selected articles and books.

Review: BSJ, 39, No. 3 (September 1989), 183 (Philip A. Shreffler).

C10593. Bergman, Ted. Sherlock Holmes i Sverige, en bibliografi.

[Stockholm: res Bokmaskin, 1991.] 155 p. illus.

"Texter om Sherlock Holmes publicerade för svensk läsekrets under perioden 1891-1990."

An enlarged edition of the compiler's previous bibliography (DA3701).

Review: Sherlockiana, 36, Nr. 2-3 (1991), 18 (Bjarne Nielsen).

C10594. Breen, Jon L. What About Murder? A Guide to Books About Mystery and Detective Fiction. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1981. xviii, 157 p.

A useful bibliography, with reviews, of 239 books, many of which contain discussions about the Holmes Canon and therefore are also listed in The Universal Sherlock Holmes.

Winner of the 1981 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Review: The Armchair Detective, 14 (1981), 365 (Charles Shibuk).

C10595. The British Council. British Crime Fiction. [London]: The British Council and the National Book League, [February 1974]. 51 p.

Partial contents: British Crime Stories Now, by Julian Symons. -- The Forerunners: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. -- Anthologies and Histories.

C10596. Bruhns, Oliver. Practical Handbook of Sir A. Conan Doyle's Literary Works Published in Germany, With Some Observations Upon Sherlock Holmes in Pastiche. [Lübeck: Colonel Stark's German Books Ltd., 1989.] 73 p. illus.

Limited to 221 copies.

A bibliography of German translations of the Doyle/Holmes books, including nineteen illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt.

Review: WW, 12, No. 2 (September 1989), 32-33 (Kathrin Jaeck).

C10597. Cleveland Public Library. Literature Dept. Sherlock Holmes: A Bibliography. July 1987. 8 p.

C10598. Cox, J. Randolph. "A. Conan Doyle, Dime Novelist; or, Magnetic Attractions for Bibliophiles," BSM, No. 42 (Summer 1985), 32-33.

A note on the 483 Street & Smith paperback novels, including five by Doyle, published between 1897 and 1907.

C10599. De Waal, Ronald Burt. The International Sherlock Holmes. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books [The Shoe String Press]; London: Mansell, 1980. 621 p.

A companion volume to The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. (DB1732)

Edition of 2,300 copies.

Reviews: American Book Collector (NS), 1 (November-December 1980), 54-55 (Paulette Greene), and reprinted in CPBook, 4, No. 1 (March 1981), 325; American Reference Books Annual (1981), 568 (David Skene-Melvin); BSJ, 31, No. 2 (June 1981), 126 (Thomas L. Stix, Jr.); Booklist, 78 (August 1982), 1552; Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, 26, Nos. 9-10 (September-October 1981) (Sylvie B. Thiebeauld); Choice, 18 (December 1980), 503 (Joe R. Christopher); CSU Comments [Colorado State University], 11 (September 18, 1980), 1, and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 4 (December 1980), 309, and BSC, 1, No. 5 (November 1981), 8; El Paso Herald-Post (September 27, 1980), A-4 (David Innes) [Dale L. Walker]; Library Journal, 105 (May 1, 1980), 1069 (Janice Huth Byer); London Mystery Selection, 31 (December 1980), 126; NS, No. 5 (September 23, 1980), 15 (Thomas A. Dandrew); Poisoned Pen, 3 (October 1980), 40 (Ethel Lindsay); RQ, 20 (Winter 1980), 212-213 (Georgina C. Peyton); San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicler/This World (August 24, 1980), 39 (Howard Lachtman), and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 4 (December 1980), 308, and Gaslight Publications, Catalogue No. 1 (Winter-Spring 1981), 10, and PUn, 5, No. 10 (October 1980), 2, and The Scrapbook, 1, No. 2 (October 1980), 25; SHJ, 15, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 28 (Nicholas Utechin; 15, No. 2 (Summer 1981), 60 (Peter A. Landman); Sherlockiana, 25, Nr. 2-3 (1980), 19 (Henry Lauritzen); Spectator, 245 (September 27, 1980), 21-22 (Benny Green), and reprinted in BSR, 3, Nos. 1-2 (October-November 1980), 4-5; Sussex Express (December 12, 1980), 41 (Michael Hardwick); TM [Praha], 34, No. 24 (1980), 759 (Rudolf _echura); Wilson Library Bulletin, 55 (December 1980), 294 (Jon Breen).

C10600. De Waal, Ronald Burt. The Universal Sherlock Holmes. Edited by George A. Vanderburgh. Foreword by John Bennett Shaw. Illustrated by Betty and George Wells. Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, 1994. 4 v.

Printed on archival paper and published in a Cerlox bound set and an unbound set suitable for private hand binding.

This new edition of an award-winning reference book is a comprehensive listing, with descriptions or abstracts, of books, articles, and a wide assortment of other items about the Master Detective and his friend and colleague, Dr. John H. Watson, from 1887 to 1994. The numbered entries -- many list more than one item -- include all the entries in Volumes 1 and 2 as well as those for Volume 3. Like Green and Gibson's bibliography on Conan Doyle, this bibliography is the standard reference source on Sherlock Holmes.

C10601. Dickensheet, Dean W. An Inventory of The Scowrers' Sherlockiana Collection. Part I. The Bequest of Anthony Boucher. San Francisco Public Library, 1971. 79 p.

"Presented to the San Francisco Public Library by The Scowrers and the Molly Maguires, March 1970."

"This catalog was prepared by Dean Dickensheet, BSI, and reproduced by the staff of The Vermissa Daily Herald (Laura Parker, Stanger) for Sherlockian scholars everywhere. Done on the occasion of Bouchercon-by-the-Bay, October 9, 1982." (Ted Schulz)

C10602. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "An Informal Conan Doyle Bibliography," VDH, 1, No. 2 (1979), 8-9.

"From the preface of the Crowborough Edition."

See also DB1734.

C10603. Epstein, Marvin P. "A Sherlockian Miscellany," BSM, No. 34 (Summer 1983), 32-36, 40. illus.

"Bibliographical notes" on the following books "that are of interest because of their contents, without regard to their status as first or later editions": 1. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and a Tale of the Ragged Mountains, by Edgar Allan Poe. -- 2. An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, by John Lloyd Warden Page. -- 3. Boys of the Priory School, by Florence Coombe. -- 4. A Village Story (anonymous). -- 5. The Pursuit of the House-Boat, by John Kendrick Bangs.

C10604. Green, Richard Lancelyn. A Souvenir of Sherlock Holmes Presented to William Gillette's God-Son. London: Privately Printed, Christmas 1989. 1 folded sheet.

A description, with illustrations, of the inscribed, extra-illustrated Souvenir Edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes that was given to C. E. Hamilton's son, Charles Edward William Gillette Hamilton, as a souvenir of his godfather William Gillette.

C10605. Green, Richard Lancelyn, and John Michael Gibson. A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle. With a foreword by Graham Greene. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. xvi, 712 p. illus. (The Soho Bibliographies, 23)

This is the first complete bibliography of the writings of Doyle. This comprehensive reference work features a wealth of new biographical material as well as notes for each volume -- with the background and the publishing history when possible -- and a short synopsis of his letters and articles in order to place them in context.

Appendixes include lists of the major English and Continental editions, the authorized American and Canadian editions up to 1930, the American pirate editions up to 1940, poems set to music, performance dates of the plays, shorthand editions, and mis-attributions.

Winner of the 1984 Special Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Reviews: The Armchair Detective, 17 (Winter 1984), 89-90 (Marvin P. Epstein); BSJ, 34, No. 1 (March 1984), 48 (Peter E. Blau); BSM, No. 34 (Summer 1983), 38-40 (Peter E. Blau); Choice, 22 (February 1984), 22; RQ, 23 (Winter 1983), 231-232 (Scott Stebelman); SHJ, 16, No. 3 (Winter 1983), 85 (Nicholas Utechin); The Sherlockian, 1, No. 4 (1988), 9-12 (Kelvin I. Jones); Times Literary Supplement (February 10, 1984), 131 (Timothy d'Arch Smith).

C10606. Green, Richard Lancelyn, and John Michael Gibson. "The Fruit of Pensive Nights and Laborious Days," SHJ, 16, No. 3 (Winter 1983), 82-83.

The compilers of the Doyle bibliography discuss their impressive work. Green and Gibson will achieve immortality because of their great bibliography and not, as they modestly state, because of the foreword by Graham Greene which adds little to the book.

C10607. Hansen, Jeppe. "Dansk Sherlock Holmes-Bibliografi," Sherlockiana, 27, Nr. 2-3 (1982), 14-22.

An extensive list of Sherlockiana in Danish.

C10608. Herbert, Paul D. "Sherlock Holmes in the Great American Detective Series," MT, 2, No. 1 (August 1980), 5-6.

A study of the strange series of books published by The Arthur Westbrook Company that included Stud, Sign, Scan, RedH, and Iden.

C10609. Hollyer, Cameron. "Facsimiles of Strand Vary in Their Price and in Quality as Well," CH, 4, No. 4 (Summer 1981), 14-16.

Discusses the various facsimile editions of The Strand Magazine in which the Holmes stories appear.

C10610. Johnson, Timothy W., and Julia Johnson, eds. Crime Fiction Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. Associate editors: Robert Mitchell, Glenna J. Dunning, Susan J. Mackall. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. xii, 423 p.

This valuable reference volume includes criticism of English, American, and Continental mystery and detective fiction from its beginnings with Edgar Allan Poe through 1978. The bibliography contains more than 2000 entries for over 1800 separate items, each with a descriptive annotation. Twenty pages are devoted to books and articles about Sherlock Holmes. Numerous other items also include information about Holmes.

Review: Wilson Library Bulletin, 55 (June 1981), 774 (Jon Breen).

C10611. Kirby, David G. "It Was a `Good' Book," FMHC Interim Report (October 1991), 35-37.

"An introduction to book condition descriptions," distinguishing between Mint, Fine, Very Good (VG), and Good (G).

C10612. Lazar, Jon H. "The Basic Sherlock Holmes Collection -- A Bibliography," CN (NS), 3, No. 3 (September 1980), 12-15.

The list of twenty-five items is intended to aid the beginner in the study of the Canon.

C10613. Lima, Joel. Portuguese Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes (With Some Incursions into Brazilian Printing). [Lisboa: Privately Produced, 1990. 133 p.

Contents: A. Complete and Collected Tales. -- B. Individual Tales. -- C. The Apocrypha. -- D. The Writings About the Writings. -- E. Plays. -- F. Pastiches and Parodies. -- G. Plagiarisms. -- H. Comic Books. -- I. Children's and Game Books.

C10614. Lovisi, Gary. Relics of Sherlock Holmes. Brooklyn: Gryphon Publications, March 1987. 50 p. illus.

Cover art by Steve Siryk.

Limited to 300 numbered copies.

Contents: Introduction. -- About the Books. -- About Films and TV. -- About the Plays. -- Sherlock and the Count. -- Stories: A Pastiche Listing. -- Some Newsstand Magazines. -- Miscellaneous Articles. -- The First Sherlock Holmes Paperback. -- Comic Books and Cartoons. -- A Few Fanzines. -- Sherlock Ads. -- Other Material.

C10615. Lovisi, Gary. Relics of Sherlock Holmes. [2nd ed.] Brooklyn: Gryphon Books, 1989. 55 p. illus.

Cover art and title-page illustration by Steve Siryk.

Contents: Introduction. -- Introduction to This New Edition. -- About the Books. -- About Films and TV. -- About the Plays. -- On the Great Stage. -- Sherlock: and the Count. -- Stories: A Pastiche Listing. -- Some Newsstand Magazines. -- Miscellaneous Articles. -- Comic Books and Cartoons. -- A Few Fanzines. -- Sherlock Ads.

C10616. Lovisi, Gary. "Sherlock Holmes: 50 Years of the Great Detective in Paperback," The Paperback Advertiser, No. 14 (1983),

----------. ----------. [Rev. and enl.] Brooklyn: Fantasia Books, December 1983. 47 p. illus. (Fantasia Books, No. 1)

Limited to 200 numbered copies.

Discusses the American paperback editions of the Canon and the pastiches, with reproductions of several cover illustrations.

Review: BSJ, 34, No. 1 (March 1984), 50.

C10617. Lovisi, Gary. Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective in Paperback. [Introduction by John Bennett Shaw.] Brooklyn: Gryphon Books, 1990. 151 p.

Cover art by Franklyn Hamilton.

Published in hardcover and paperback editions (300 and 500 copies).

"A massive undertaking, listing hundreds of paperback variations, editions, and printings of Sherlock Holmes in American paperbacks -- as well as many British paperback editions. It's a bibliography, checklist, and index and a chatty work full of comments and information on all the numerous Pastiche books as well as the Canonical volumes." (Cover)

"A shorter and substantially different version of this book was originally published in 1983 in a small booklet by Fantasia Books under the title Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Years of the Great Detective in Paperback."

Review: SHR, 3, No. 1 (1991), 31-33 (William A. Barton).

C10618. Malec, Andrew. "An Early American Doyle Publication," BSM, No. 33 (Spring 1983), 1-7, 23.

An interesting discussion of the earliest known separate edition of a work by Doyle: "My Friend the Murderer," which, along with two stories by other authors, appeared in the People's Library, No. 334, by S. Ogilvie and Co. of New York in March 1883.

C10619. Nielsen, Bjarne. Sherlock Holmes i Denmark. [Københavnl: Antikvariat Pinkerton, 1981. 17, [3] p.

"En Fortegnelse over danske Udgaver af John H. Watsons Skrifter." (Subtitle)

C10620. Nielsen, Bjarne. Sherlock Holmes in Denmark: A Check-List of Danish Editions of the Canon and the Writings about the Writings in Denmark. [København]: Antikvariat Pinkerton, 1987. 66 p.

An up-to-date reprint of Sherlock Holmes i Denmark.

C10621. Nielsen, Bjarne. "Sherlock Holmes in Denmark: Addenda," Sherlockiana, 34, Nr. 1 (1989), 7.

A list, without page numbers, of seventeen additional books and articles in Danish.

C10622. O'Kelly, Joss. Sherlock Holmes. Bucks, Eng.: County Library, [1982]. 7 p. illus.

A list of books available in the County Library. The list is divided into three sections: Sacred Writings, Fictional Works by Authors Other Than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and The Higher Criticism.

C10623. Pirani, Roberto. "Le `Avventure' in Italia: Bibliografia analitica (1895-1987)," [Source and date unknown], 55-58. illus.

A complete history of Sherlockian publications in Italy.

C10624. Pollock, Donald K., Jr., and Jon L. Lellenberg. "Packaging Holmes for the Paperbacks," BSM, No. 31 (Autumn 1982), 11-17.

A discussion, with illustrations, of five Sherlock Holmes paperbacks published between February 1941 and March 1950.

C10625. Queen, Ellery. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography. With a new introduction by the author. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. 146 p.

Limited to 1000 copies, of which 150 are numbered and signed.

First published by Little, Brown and Co., 1942 (DA3730).

C10626. [Redmond, Chris.] "A Non-Sherlockian Reading List for Sherlockians," CH, 14, No. 4 (Summer 1991), 35-37.

Several years ago Bootmakers submitted their nominations for books that they thought would be "interesting, enjoyable or worthwhile."

C10627. Redmond, Donald A. "How Sherlock Holmes Fell Among Pirates," CH, 11, No. 4 (Summer 1988), 35-40.

Describes how American publishers treated Doyle's work before and just after international copyright protection was adopted in the United States in 1891.

C10628. Redmond, Donald A. Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates: Copyright and Conan Doyle in America, 1890-1930. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. xviii, 286 p. (Contributions to the Study of World Literature, 36)

The early Holmes stories (Stud and Sign), unprotected under American copyright, were extensively pirated in the U.S. by generations of successive publishers, causing noticeable variations in the American text. The process of piracy is described, and lists of variant American issues of Stud and Sign, and textual errors, are given,

Reviews: ACD, 1, No. 3 (September 1990), 234 (Christopher Roden); BSJ, 40, No. 3 (September 1990), 184 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 66 (Summer 1991), 42-43 (Donald K. Pollock); CH, 13, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 8 (Chris Redmond); Choice (July-August 1990), 69 (P. G. Ashdown); The Ritual, No. 6 (Winter 1990), 17 (David Stuart Davies).

C10629. Reed, Lawrence L. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in America: A Bibliography of the First English copy and Subsequent Editions of His Works, 1883 thru 1930. With Notes on Foreign Editions. ii, 202 p.

"Submitted to Professor Raymond H. Shove as a 6 credit starred paper in partial fulfillment of the requirement for L.S. 295, L.S. 296, and the Degree of Master of Arts in Library Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 1968."

C10630. Rosenberg, Betty. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson)," Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1982. p. 85-86.

A simple list of and brief remarks about several pastiches and critical works. The information is far too incomplete to be of any real value.

C10631. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints Supplement [London]: Mansell, 1980. Vol. 719, p. 138-146.

See also DA3737.

C10632. Skene-Melvin, David and Ann, comp. Crime, Detective, Espionage, Mystery, and Thriller Fiction & Film: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Critical Writing Through 1979. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1980]. xx, 367 p.

A useful checklist containing 1628 entries, a title index, subject index, and an appendix listing materials in other languages. Many of the items deal with the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Review: Wilson Library Bulletin, 55 (June 1981), 774 (Jon Breen).

C10633. Murphy, Michael B. "Sherlock Holmes: Healing the Gifted with Bibliotherapy," BSG, No. 1 (Summer 1987), 29-32.

"People who are gifted in society are often viewed with a mixture of awe, envy, and sometimes under the surface, resentment. Gifted people many times feel the stigma of being isolated or feeling as though they are `freaks' in different ways. The process of bibliotherapy identification, catharsis, and insight can aid the gifted in this regard, and the character perhaps best suited to heal the gifted among us as well as show they can integrate themselves into existing society is Sherlock Holmes."

C10634. Jewell, Donald Girard. A Few Hours to the Birds. Westminster, Md.: Pinchin Lane Press, 1991. 40 p. illus. (The Sherlock Holmes Natural History Series, 2)

Limited to 500 numbered copies.

"A monograph on birds and birding in the time of Sherlock Holmes." (Subtitle)

C10635. Maynard, Julia. "Canonical Ornithology," BSJ, 37, No. 3 (September 1987), 165-168.

Watson's frequent use of bird imagery in the Canon was mere scene-dressing, as his several ornithological errors attest. Holmes, however, had been a student of bird-lore since his youth, when he took an interest in wild-duck shooting and formed a friendship with "a bird-stuffer" named Sherman. His interest in wild birds continued throughout his career as a detective.

C10636. -- A3145. McGaw, Lisa. "Some Trifling Notes on Sherlock Holmes and Ornithology," BSJ, 10, No. 4 (October 1960), 231-234.

"It is my own belief that Holmes has a keen interest in birds--aren't the birds and the bees a natural combination?--and the lack of reference in the Canon to this interest does not surprise me. How much evidence is there of Holmes's bee-keeping proclivities before his retirement?"

C10637. -- B1761. Ward, J. H. "The Birds of Dr. Watson," Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. SHJ, 11, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 4-6.

Discusses thirteen Canonical avian references, including Irene's surname which is German for "Eagle," and the influence Regent's Park, close to Baker Street and with over a hundred species of wild birds, must have had on Holmes and Watson.

Review: SHJ, 11, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 31 (Colin G. Prestige).

C10638. -- A3749. Van Liere, Edward J. "The Biologic Doctor Watson," The Quarterly of the Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity, 45, No. 1 (March 1948), 16-21.

The many references to plant and animal life in the tales show that he was a keen student of the biological sciences.

C10639. -- A3750. Van Liere, Edward J. "The Botanical Doctor Watson," BSJ, 7, No. 2 (April 1957), 96-104.

----------. ----------, A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes. New York: Vantage Press, [1959]. p. 54-61.

C10640. Bird, Margaret. "The Gardens of the Canon," SHJ, 15, No. 3 (Winter 1981), 77-81. illus.

A perusal of the Canon reveals very little about Victorian and Edwardian planting schemes. Neither Holmes nor Watson apparently knew much about plants, flowers, and shrubs. Canonical gardens, however, do provide some interesting insights into the characters of Holmes and Watson and offer some solutions to the question of dating the Case Book.

C10641. Jewell, Donald "Orchids on the Moor," PITP, No. 1 (1986), 1-8.

----------. "The Botanical Holmes," SHJ, 19, No. 2 Summer 1989), 42-46.

The tangled skein of chlorophyll attached itself to Watson early on, possibly a result of the doctor's training at the University of London, and his writing reflects this. Plants figure prominently in the action and atmosphere of the Canon. While Holmes was a late convert to the science, botany eventually replaced cocaine as stimulant to that powerful mind. Particularly after Reichenbach Falls, the detective's practical knowledge of plants used in the manufacture of perfumes and poisons gave way to a genuine appreciation of plants for plants' sake. He returned from his Hiatus a botanist in word and deed, using sophisticated herbarium equipment and referring to plants in figures of speech. Despite such evidence of botanical prowess, however, Houn was one case where Watson was able to outstrip the Master with his own discovery (albeit accidental) of a rare orchid on Dartmoor, supposed to be extinct there for many years.

C10642. Needleman, Lionel. "Practical Handbook of Canonical Gardens," CH, 7, No. 4 (Summer 1984), 3-6.

"Knows nothing of practical gardening." So comments Watson in the summary he drew up of Holmes's learning and accomplishments in Stud. But Watson's own knowledge of gardening is hardly impressive. His horticultural descriptions tend to be distressingly vague. All too often he writes of "plants," "shrubs, "bushes," and "trees" without further specification. Even when he adds an adjective or two, they seldom help with the identification or do anything to dispel the growing suspicion that even in these shallow waters, Watson is out of his depth.

C10643. Kennedy, Bruce. "`On My Honour...,'" BSM, No. 31 (Autumn 1982), 25-27.

Although not the first Scoutmaster, Holmes, in his handling of the irregulars, anticipated some of the techniques later employed in the Scouting movement. Furthermore, he represented a role model that Robert Baden-Powell, author of Scouting for Boys, invoked in his teachings, and the Holmes image helped to shape that movement in its formative stage. The Scout Oath is a statement of the great detective's own exemplary code of life.

C10644. Ellis, Edward F. The British Museum in Fiction: A Check-List. Buffalo: [Privately Printed], 1981. xiv, 193 p.

Limited to 500 copies.

Includes the entire reference to the British Museum in Blue, Wist, Houn, Musg, and "The Leather Funnel," by Doyle (p. 48-49).

C10645. Brodie, Robert N. Canonical Yellow Pages. New York: Privately Printed, 1993. 14 p.

Prepared for the annual dinner of The Baker Street Irregulars, January 8, 1993.

Directories of Canonical business and commercial establishments in London, England, the Continent and Egypt, and the United States and Canada.

C10646. Alder, Barbara. "Canonical Canada," The Ritual, No. 9 (Spring 1992), 6-10.

Sherlockian activities in Canada.

C10647. Campbell, Patrick. "Sherlock Holmes on the Prairies," CH, 15, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 2229. illus.

Investigates Holmes's first newspaper appearance in western Canada.

C10648. Colombo, John Robert. "It's Elementary: Sherlockiana's Alive and Well in Canada," The Toronto Star (June 3, 1990), A22. (Colombo's Canada)

An informative column devoted to Canonical references to Canada, drama, books, and other Sherlockian activities in this country.

C10649. [Raymond, Trevor.] "Sir Henry Is Coming from Canada Tomorrow," CH, 15, No. 4 (Summer 1992), 16-17.

"A University of Guelph project offers a challenge to Sherlockians."

C10650. -- A3259. Redmond, Chris. "Sherlock Holmes and Canada," BSP, No. 25 (July 1967), 1. (Editorial)

The author takes note of the few references to Canada in the Saga and considers the possibility of Holmes having visited this country.

C10651. Redmond, Chris. "Tiptoes! Tiptoes!" CH, Vol. 15, No. 4-Vol. 17, No. 2; Summer 1992-Winter 1993.

A series of "impressions" primarily about Canada and the Canon. The title of the series comes from Bosc: "Tiptoes! Tiptoes! Square, too, quite unusual boots."