[net.books] WHO WROTE NERO WOLFE OF W. 35 ST?

GMP@psuvm.BITNET (08/15/85)

THERE WAS A BOOK BY SOMEONE OR OTHER THAT PURPORTED TO BE A BIOGRAPHY OF NERO
WOLFE IN WHICH WOLFE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND IRENE
ADLER.  SUPPOSEDLY IT WAS A PH.D. DISSERTATION AT HARVARD.  WHO WROTE IT.  I
NEED TO FIND THE DAMNED THING BADLY.  POST OF WRITE G. M. PHILLIPS, 225 SPARKS
BUILDING, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 OR
GMP AT PSUVM
     

kwc@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) (08/16/85)

> THERE WAS A BOOK BY SOMEONE OR OTHER THAT PURPORTED TO BE A BIOGRAPHY OF NERO
> WOLFE IN WHICH WOLFE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND IRENE
> ADLER.  SUPPOSEDLY IT WAS A PH.D. DISSERTATION AT HARVARD.  WHO WROTE IT.  I
> NEED TO FIND THE DAMNED THING BADLY.  POST OF WRITE G. M. PHILLIPS, 225 SPARKS
> BUILDING, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 OR
> GMP AT PSUVM
>      

	The author you want is William S. Baring-Gould. He also wrote
SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET.

						Kenneth Crist
						Computer Vision Lab
						University of Maryland

moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (08/20/85)

In article <730@cvl.UUCP> kwc@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) writes:
>> WHO WROTE IT.  I
>> NEED TO FIND THE DAMNED THING BADLY.  POST OF WRITE G. M. PHILLIPS, 225 SPARKS
>> BUILDING, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 OR
>> GMP AT PSUVM
>>      
>
>	The author you want is William S. Baring-Gould. He also wrote
>SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET.

A new edition of this was released in paperback by Penguin just a few months
ago.  SHould be easy to find...
                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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