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A Sheaf of Sherlock

1552462803

Self Published

Harrison, Michael; Edgar Allan Poe

$63.00

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This is the last book compiled by Michael Harrison, who for many years was the doyen of the Sherlockian world, and it gathers together his most important articles and disjecta membra from over thirty years of Sherlockian activity with new explanatory introductions and a final summing up. Here for the first time in book form are his theories about the origin of Sherlock Holmes as they developed in the 1950’s and as they were expanded in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine; the articles written at the time of Conan Doyle’s centenary in 1959, an account of a visit with Dame Jean Conan Doyle to the house where she was born, and other writings based on a deep-seated knowledge of the period and a love of the abstruse and curious. Described in the introduction by David Hammer as a “quintessential Edwardian,” the author spanned the century and wrote of the Holmesian world with the confidence of a man who was at home within it. He effortlessly combined his love of the Sherlock Holmes stories with his knowledge of the milieu in which they were written. Michael Harrison trained as all architect, and later worked in journalism and advertising. His first novel was published in 1934 and he was a prolific writer on many diverse subjects including Jack the Ripper and spontaneous combustion. His Sherlockian books and monographs, for which he is best remembered, include classics of the genre such as In the Footsteps of the Sherlock Holmes, The London of Sherlock Holmes, and A Study in Surmise. He was a member of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and of The Baker Street Irregulars (by whom he was invested in 1964 as “The Camberwell Poisoning Case” and later given the prestigious “Two Shilling” award for outstanding achievement). He died in 1991, at the age of 84. David L. Hammer, who contributes the Foreword and originally commissioned the book, is a leading attorney from Dubuque, Iowa; he is the author of many highly regarded travel guides to the Sherlockian world, and also the founder of the Gasogene Press.

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