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Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands.His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Never mind that Trevor's name wasn't really Trevor, or that Holmes hid the name of his university. Or perhaps you do mind, as so many have before you. It was such a like-minded group of people who got together in 1934 to found the world's first Sherlockian organization, The Baker Street Irregulars. With the end of the Second World War came the opportunity to found a means of publishing their studies in Sherlock Holmes and the Sherlockian world, The Baker Street Journal. Long the first place the inquirer should look for answers to Sherlockian puzzles or the posing of new ones, The Baker Street Journal still flourishes, both as a journal of record of Sherlockian activities in America and throughout the world, and as the premier publication devoted to the writings about the Writingsand to keeping green the memory of the world's first consulting detective. The practitioners of the game have at their best offered learned works that they have written with their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks. Their tone has ranged from mock-heroic through the archly chiding to the playful, in prose and verse or in combinations of the two. Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp is the first time that the best of these writings has been gathered in one place. Some of the prominent players of the game have included such luminaries in various walks of life as Christopher Morley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, T. S. Eliot, Vincent Starrett, Elmer Davis, Harry S. Truman, Franklin P. Adams, and Ellery Queen.
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目录信息
What is it That We Love in Sherlock Holmes?
The Game Is Afoot! by Edgar W. Smith
The Implicit Holmes by Edgar W. Smith
My First Meeting with Sherlock Holmes by Ellery Queen
Calix Meus Inebrians Quampraeclarus Est by Vincent Starrett
"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sherlock Holmes" by Julian Wolff, M.D.
The Extraordinary Case of the Six Unknown Stories by Duncan MacDougald, Jr.
The Writings Upon the Writings
The Writings about the Writings by Edgar W. Smith
Three Poems by Christopher Morley
A Plea for Respect for the Canon by Walter Pond
Two Acrostic Sonnets by Belden Wigglesworth and Bliss Austin
Sherlock Holmes—The Inner Man by George Simmons
The Religious Sherlock Holmes by Edgar S. Rosenberger
No Fire Without Some Smoke by John L. Hicks
On the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos by Florence H. Clum
Up from the Needle by Edgar W. Smith
The Gastronomic Holmes by Fletcher Pratt
Observations on Sherlock Holmes as an Athlete and Sportsman by H. T. Webster
Sherlock Holmes Was No Burglar by S. Tupper Bigelow
The Sherlock Holmes Blood Test by Christine L. Huber
The Writings of Mr. Sherlock Holmes by Walter Klinefelter
Sherlock Holmes: Rare Book Collector by Madeleine B. Stern
"Daydream" by Basil Rathbone
The Archetypal Holmes by Poul Anderson
Concerning the Extraordinary Events at the Reichenbach Falls by Albert Silverstein and Myrna Silverstein
Notes on a Journey to Lhassa and Mecca by Donald Pollack
A Canonical Kipling by Thaddeus Holt
Morte de Sherlock by Stephen A. Kallis
Hail, Sherlock Holmes! by Edgar S. Rosenberger
The Real Watson by Dirk J. Struik
John H. Watson—Word-Painter by H. C. Potter
Don't Blame Watson by W. S. Hall
Watson a la Mode by Jane Nightwork
The Literary Craft of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Donald J. Watt
The Cento of the Baskervilles by Evelyn A. Herzog
The Adventure of the Empty Cupboard by Vincent Starrett
The Problem of Number 221 by William S. Baring-Gould
Mrs. Hudson's Inheritance by William S. Baring-Gould
Mrs. Hudson Speaks by Lee Wright
Inspector G. Lestrade by L. S. Holstein
Mycroft and Her Majesty's Invisible Government by J. S. Callaway
Identifying the Diogenes Club by S. Tupper Bigelow
Mycroft Recomputed by Lyttleton Fox
Moriarty: A Life Study by Philip A. Shreffler
Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Eliot
A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem by Poul Anderson
The Portalis Sale of 1865 by Jack Tracy
The Adventuress of Sherlock Holmes by Julian Wolff, M.D.
"We Were Both in the Photographs": I. Adler and Adah I. by William D. Jenkins
Aunt Clara by James Montgomery
Concerning The Valley of Fear by Ernest B. Zeisler
The Adventure of the Veiled Author by Edgar W. Smith
The Second Hand in The Second Stain by Richard Luman
The Mystery of the Second Hand by Jon L. Lellenberg and John Nieminski
The Solitary Man-uscript by Andrew J. Peck
The True Story of the Dancing Men by Cornelius Helling
Some Notes Relating to a Preliminary Investigation into the Paternity of Nero Wolfe by John D. Clark
The Celestial Pastiche by David A. Weiss
Rejectio ad Absurdum by Herbert Brean
The Baker Street Irregualrs and Its Scions
The Origin of 221B Worship by Robert Keith Leavitt
Clinical Notes by a Resident Patient by Christopher Morley
Market Down—Irregular by Nathan Bengis
The Silver Blaze Comes of Age by Thomas L. Stix
Sherlock Holmes in the White House by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman, Sherlockian by Milton F. Perry
Baker Street from Guam by Ellery Husted
Some Brief Recollections of a Pip by Benjamin S. Clark
Travels with a Pumpkin by Terry Belanger
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