cwh@drutx.UUCP (10/01/84)
"After rejecting all impossibilities, the remaining possibility, however improbable, must be the correct one." - I paraphrase. Some time ago I ran across a marvelous little monogram on the books owned by the famous detective. Sorry I can't look up the title - my copy is in New York State. The author is a woman. Doyle placed delicious little hints here and there about certain books - mostly very * rare books that Holmes had in his otherwise marvelous collection. They included centuries- old copies of Italian poetry, etc. The person who wrote the monogram did a fair amount of detective work on her own. The monogram is much fun reading - can anyone who knows, please post the title, author, etc? As I recall, all the references that Doyle makes are to actual books. Contrast this with the fascination with pseudo-biblia that the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos and his followers enjoyed. I suspect that at least one professor of graduate studies was taken in with long scholarly descriptions of a certain tome by one Abdul 'al Hazrad - mine was at any rate. I refer to the "Necronomicon". from the painstakingly crafted Gothic interior of WB2YHE Regards - Carl
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (10/09/84)
Excuse me, I think you mean "monograph", not monogram. And I believe I saw
one of this general description in The Annoted Sherlock Holmes by the late
William Barring-Gould... if it's not there, I'm sure there's a pointer to it.
Yes, Holmes did have a good bookshelf, but I've always prided myself that,
of the two of us, I was the only person who had the complete works of C. J.
Cherryh...
"He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson..."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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