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Episode 165: The True Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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“give me a true account of all that happened” [ABBE] </h4>
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We're fairly comfortable in taking Dr. Watson at his word. That is, we trust that what Watson tells us is the true eyewitness account of his time with Sherlock Holmes.</div>
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But what if that wasn't the case? What if Watson's writings were actually a set of highly polished tales that masked the true drama behind the scenes at 221B Baker Street?</div>
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That's the premise of <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/trueadventures.html">The True Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</a></i> by Terence Faherty, BSI ("Sir Charles Baskerville") from Wessex Press. Terence joined us to talk about the art of writing, how he approaches mysteries, and how P.G. Wodehouse was one of the inspirations behind his book.</div>
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We also have another installment of "As We Go to Press" with Mattias Boström, co-editor of the <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/newspaper4.html"><i>Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers</i></a> series. Try your hand at the latest <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz, see if you can figure out the story we're referring to, and you might win a prize.<br />
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Episode 165: The True Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“give me a true account of all that happened” [ABBE] We're fairly comfortable in taking Dr. Watson at his word. That is, ...

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Baker Street Elementary – Freebies

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“my correspondence certainly has the charm of variety” [NOBL] </h4>
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The world knows Sherlock Holmes as a master detective – a professional who assists Scotland Yard in tracking down criminals. But in reality, in his role as a private consulting detective, there were instances when he was approached simply for advice, not because a crime was taking place.<br />
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"As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools."</blockquote>
Some of the most memorable cases in which clients sought advice included:<br />
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<li>"A Case of Identity" in which Mary Sutherland questioned what happened to her suitor (who turned out to be someone else entirely);</li>
<li>"The Noble Bachelor," where Lord Robert St. Simon lost his betrothed following their wedding ceremony;</li>
<li>"The Copper Beeches" (the story from which the quote above was taken), when Violet Hunter consults Sherlock Holmes about taking a governess job that paid twice as much as market rates;</li>
<li>"The Yellow Face" turned out to be nothing more than a cry for marriage counseling;</li>
<li>"The Missing Three-Quarter" was a matter of the whereabouts of a wayward athlete;</li>
<li>"The Sussex Vampire" concerned the verification of a mythical monster.</li>
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So, not all run-of-the-mill murder, blackmail, or robbery for Sherlock Holmes. We even begin to discern some of the unusual consulting he gave at Baker Street Elementary...</div>
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“my correspondence certainly has the charm of variety” [NOBL] The world knows Sherlock Holmes as a master detective – a professiona...

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by Scott Monty

Crows and Sherlock Holmes

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"You do occasionally find a carrion crow among the eagles," Holmes tells Watson in "Shoscombe Old Place," using an avian metaphor to describe the possibility that Sir Robert Norberton is a bad 'un. It's not a kind way to speak of crows, who by all informed accounts are highly intelligent and social creatures, but he said it and we have to deal with it.<br /><br />Norberton is the only crow mentioned in the canonical stories, unless we count "the Crow Hill mine" referred to in <i>The Valley of Fear</i>. Or unless we are using a carefully selected edition of the stories, such as a version of the Doubleday <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Doyle&bi=0&bx=off&cm_sp=SearchF-_-Advtab1-_-Results&ds=30&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&sts=t&tn=Complete%20Sherlock%20Holmes&yrh=1960&yrl=1930">Complete Sherlock Holmes</a></i> published between 1930 and 1960. For there, behold what we find in chapter 3 of <i>The Sign of Four</i>, in the episode where Holmes and Watson accompany Mary Morstan to meet her mysterious benefactor:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
"At the Lyceum Theatre the crows were already <a href="https://twitter.com/HarrytownSchool/status/887375553334054918" target="_blank">thick at the side-entrances</a>."</blockquote>
<br />The word should, of course, be "crowds," as it was in earlier editions and later ones as well. Newt and Lilian Williams, prominent figures now greatly missed by their friends in the Occupants of the Empty House in central Illinois, discovered this amusing typographical error in the 1970s. It launched them on a massive project to identify all the errors in the Doubleday text (and there are many of them) which they came to call <b>The Great Crow Hunt.</b> <br /><br />My father, <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/11/remembering-donald-redmond-bsi-2s.html#.XJZjwChKjb0">Donald A. Redmond</a>, BSI, 2s ("Good Old Index"), dedicated his 1990 book about the printing of the Canon, <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&an=Redmond&tn=Sherlock+Holmes+among+the+Pirates&kn=&isbn=">Sherlock Holmes among the Pirates</a></i>, to Newt and Lilian. And Les Klinger, compiling his <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/signoffour.html"><i>Sherlock Holmes Reference Library</i> volume for <i>The Sign of Four</i></a>, was able to consult the Williamses' much-marked-up copy of the Baring-Gould <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&an=Baring+Gould&tn=Annotated+Sherlock+Holmes&kn=&isbn="><i>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, now treasured in the Occupants' library under the name of <i>The Annotated Annotated</i>. It records: <blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Peter Blau and Cameron Hollyer determined that the 'crows' appeared first in the Crowborough edition." </blockquote>
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Crowborough was the village near the country home where Arthur Conan Doyle spent his final years; its name regrettably comes not from crows but from an old English word for yellow. The "Crowborough edition" of ACD's writings, in 24 volumes, was produced at the end of the author's life, in 1930, by Doubleday, who subsequently used some of the typesetting in the Complete SH — including the Crowborough crows.<div>
<br />Perhaps it was the memory of all these theatre-going crows that stimulated Canadian novelist Shane Peacock to make the birds play a significant role in his first "Boy Sherlock Holmes" novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Crow-Sherlock-Holmes-Case/dp/0887769195/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Eye+of+the+Crow&qid=1553360504&s=gateway&sr=8-1"><i>Eye of the Crow</i></a>, which appeared in 2007. <br /><br />So much for the crows who are birds. For the record, there is also Erasmus Crow, one of the victims in "The Adventure of the Reluctant Corpse" by Matthew J. Elliott, which appears in Volume III of the never-ending <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/interview-with-david-marcum-editor-of-the-mx-book-of-new-sherlock-holmes-stories/"><i>MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories</i></a>. <br /><br />And many of us are acquainted with <a href="https://twitter.com/221Bcrow" target="_blank">@221BCrow</a>, who is an actual person, a writer and enthusiast of Victorian gay history well known in the Sherlockian twittersphere and the Pacific Northwest.<br /><br />In a different category are the crows who are sounds rather than winged creatures. "Finally," Watson writes, again in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, "he [Holmes] broke out into a loud crow of delight." That's not the hoarse caw of the crow, but a totally unrelated sound that has been called by the same word at least since the first English translation of the Bible a thousand years ago, which contains the phrase "Se cocc crawe," the cock crew.</div>
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Crows and Sherlock Holmes

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Episode 164: Sherlock Holmes, Popeye and More

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The town of Chester, Illinois contains a few interesting items. One is the Chester Baskerville Society. Another is the Popeye and Friends Character Trail. And the common bond between both of them is Mike McClure, BSI ("Stimson & Co."), a member of the Baker Street Irregulars.</div>
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Episode 164: Sherlock Holmes, Popeye and More

“clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea-jacket,” [SIGN] The town of Chester, Illinois contains a few interesting items. One...

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The Baker Street Almanac

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Titled "an annual capsule of a timeless past & future," the <i><a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/bsa.html?fbclid=IwAR00bbB0H3ymytRrxJnsvPL1w9oUxTGJxV3bkRrMm1CI7_0j_j6-h2WO79g">Baker Street Almanac</a></i> is the brainchild of Ross Davies, BSI ("The Temple"). Followers of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere may recall when Ross appeared on our show to discuss <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose137">Boxes from Royalty</a>.<br />
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Now in its second year, the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> is a publication of both print and electrons, and Ross indicated what this volume might be <a href="http://www.rossdavies.org/misc/Baker%20Street%20Almanac%20-%20readable%20(2018).pdf">in the inaugural edition last year</a>:<br />
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"If all goes well, next year’s <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> will not be like the scrap of paper you are holding now. It will be a plump book of Sherlockian data — substantial, elaborate, fact-and-fun-filled.  There will be records of — and refletions on — 2018: lists and timelines and tables and directories and maps and so on. And there will be sprinklings of miscellaneous morsels — all Sherlockian, or nearly so. It will be our first big “annual capsule of a timeless past and future.” And it will be available in two formats: electronic (for free online to all) and ink-on-paper (for a pittance to all who pay)." </blockquote>
Last year's edition also included an article from <i>Ford Times</i>, a magazine similar to <i>Reader's Digest</i> or <i>Yankee Magazine</i> published by Ford Motor Company (your editor's former employer — as you'll see below) from 1916:<br />
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"In 1916, Henry Ford and Arthur Conan Doyle spoke out on opposite sides of the question of American neutrality in World War I, as the editorials reproduced on page 2 of this edition of the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> show. But disagreement did not deter Ford and Doyle from capitalizing on each other’s iconic creations. Ford went first, using Doyle’s icon — Sherlock Holmes — to appeal to Britons to buy Ford cars. In August 1916, the Sherlockian parody, “ The Disappearance of Alice Nosegay” — featuring detective Sheerluck Jones — appeared in the U.K. edition of <i>Ford Times</i>, Ford Motor Company’s consumer-oriented magazine. (This was about a century before the brass at Ford got smart and hired "Corporal Henry Wood" to sharpen the cutting edge of their marketing communications.) In the story, a Ford car is an important prop in Sheerluck Jones’s successful romancing of Alice Nosegay.  The unspoken but obvious message: Find a Ford, find true love.  The original version of “ The Disappearance of Alice Nosegay” is reproduced on page 3 of this edition of the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i>."</blockquote>
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Due to the success of the first edition, Davies was able to recruit contributors for the 2019 edition of the <i>Almanac</i>, and we're all beneficiaries of this fine curatorial work. There are two versions of the 2019 <i>Baker Street Almana</i>c: the limited <i><a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/bsabuy.html">Sense of Humour Edition</a></i> (it features an ink-on-paper format, and some copies — to be honest, the ones that people actually pay for — include a few accessories), and the unlimited <a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/BSA2019.pdf">Staunch Witnesses Edition</a> (it features an electrons-on-internet format, and it is free).<br />
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<li>A full year of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</li>
<li>A year-by-year catalog of all I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere episodes</li>
<li>A listing of all Baker Street Babes episodes</li>
<li>A suggested Sherlockian library </li>
<li>A listing of artefacts in Denny Dobry's recreation of 221B Baker Street</li>
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<li>A look ahead at 2019</li>
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Charles Prepolec, BSI ("The Man with the Twisted Lip") shared the following on Facebook:<br />
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I'd posted about the 2019 Baker Street Almanac the other day, and ‪the print edition arrived yesterday. Card cover wrapped in a map, bound with ribbon and a postcard stuck on front. It’s a thing of beauty. I was almost loath to open it, it’s so lovely, but there was more within! The wrapper unfolds to a double sided 18 x 25.5 inch double sided map and poster, on one side a reprinting of ‘The Adventure of the Clothes-Line’ (1915) with great FDS illustrations reproduced and on the other side a cartographical presentation of ‘How Watson Learned the Trick’. The interior was not without surprises as well, a bookmark cryptically hand numbered numbered 3001, a reproduction Turf cigarette card and a Hound of the Baskervilles library punch card repro.<br />
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As always, I am in awe of the creative talent and effort expressed by BSI classmate, Ross Davies, in putting things like this together. This is a wonderful package. While you can read the contents free online, there's plenty to commend about the print edition.</blockquote>
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“the young giant's naive astonishment” [MISS] </h4>
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You'll recall that <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2019/02/baker-street-elementary-alls-well-that.html#.XIR81yhKjb0">in last our last Baker Street Elementary strip</a>, we discussed the connection between H.G. Wells and Sherlock Holmes, made through Manly Wade Wellman's work <i>Sherlock Holmes's the War of the Worlds</i>.<br />
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The original <i>The War of the Worlds</i> was developed into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)">a radio drama in 1938</a> by <i>The Mercury Theater on the Air</i> (more on that shortly) famously directed and narrated by Orson Welles (no relation to H.G.) on October 30, 1938. The production was so convincingly done that some listeners mistook it for a program of real news bulletins and some broadcasters called for better regulation of the new-ish audio medium.<br />
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The Mercury Theater on the Air was created by Orson Welles and first aired on July 11, 1938 on CBS Radio. Welles' idea was to adapt classic literary works to an hour-long radio drama and use his Mercury Theater repertory company (established in 1937). The first episode was <i>Dracula</i>, followed by <i>Treasure Island</i>. Interestingly, both Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson were contemporaries and associates of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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But just one month prior to the now-infamous <i>The War of the Worlds</i> episode – on September 25, 1938 – the Mercury Theater performed an adaptation of William Gillette's play <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>. Welles took the title role, with Ray Collins as Dr. Watson (Collins later went on to portray Lt. Tragg in <i>Perry Mason</i> on television. Interested followers can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_gTHOCm4c">listen to the episode on YouTube</a>.<br />
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One other connection of interest: Orson Welles later went on to play Professor Moriarty in the <a href="https://archive.org/details/1CharlesAugustusMilverton">John Gielgud / Ralph Richardson radio adaptations</a> <i>The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> from 1955.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – What a Gulli-Bull

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Collector Alert: Otto Penzler's Collection Up for Auction

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<b>"a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes" [EMPT] </b></h4>
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One look at the library of Otto Penzler's country home, and you'd think you're in a Barnes and Noble.<br />
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Otto's name is well-known in the world of detective and mystery fiction. He established <a href="http://mysteriouspress.com/">Mysterious Press</a> in the 1970s and opened <a href="https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/">The Mysterious Bookshop</a> soon thereafter. Each January during the BSI Weekend, Otto hosts an open house at his store for Sherlockians.<br />
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We've chatted with Otto twice before on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: once in <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose17">Episode 17</a> to talk about his collection and again in <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose87">Episode 87</a> on the release of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Sherlock-Holmes-Stories/dp/1101870893/">The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories</a></i>.<br />
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We were chatting with Otto during the BSI Weekend this year, and were surprised to learn that Otto's collection is up for sale (auction, really) over the next few years, <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946493+4294967055&type=friend-consignorpreview-notice">beginning next week</a>. Otto updates his Facebook page:<br />
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"The first sale has only about 300 books (of the 5,300 that Heritage Auctions will be selling over the next couple of years) but they are pretty terrific. If you would like to see some of the highlights of the American hard-boiled titles, plus a few other books, <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946493+4294967055&type=friend-consignorpreview-notice">here's the link</a>.<br />
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"The books will be exhibited at the Heritage New York office from noon Sunday [March 3] and on Monday and Tuesday, then the auction will be held at noon on Wednesday [March 6]. I'm deeply depressed about parting with my much-loved books but also looking forward to seeing what happens and what homes they will find. I was asked to write an introduction to the catalogue and a small piece for <i>National Review</i>, and have been extensively interviewed by a radio syndicate and the <i>New York Post</i>. The sale is a big deal in book collecting circles!"</blockquote>
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In <a href="https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/1502/Otto-Penzler-1.phtml">an interview</a> with <b>Nicholas Basbanes</b> (author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Madness-Bibliophiles-Bibliomanes-Eternal/dp/0979949157/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Gentle+Madness&qid=1551558255&s=gateway&sr=8-1">A Gentle Madness</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Among-Gently-Mad-Perspectives-Book-Hunter/dp/0805051597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31PNSDWSTPVU7&keywords=among+the+gently+mad&qid=1551558297&s=books&sprefix=among+the+gentl%2Caps%2C178&sr=1-1-spell">Among the Gently Mad</a></i>) in <i>Fine Books and Collections</i>, Otto very correctly called his library of some 60,000 volumes “the greatest collection of mystery fiction you’ll find anywhere in the world.”<br />
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Otto isn't kidding. In browsing through the Heritage Auctions site of his collection, it's absolutely breathtaking. It certainly shows the discerning eye of an expert collector, with the attention to detail, multiple inscribed and signed first editions, and dust jackets galore.<br />
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Words alone can't describe what he's assembled. So, here are a few items from the current auction. Warm up your credit cards!<br />
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James M. Cain. <i><b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, association copy, inscribed by the author: "To Mr. Samuel Marx / A tough baby to / do business with. / He earns his money / James M. Cain." Samuel Marx was an author, screenwriter, and producer who worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the production company behind the 1946 adaptation starring Lana Turner and John Garfield. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/james-m-cain-the-postman-always-rings-twice-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-1934-first-edition-association-copy-i/a/6208-45015.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Raymond Chandler. <i><b>The Big Sleep</b></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper with the note: "With kindest regards." Donald A. Yates's copy with his ownership signature in ink. [Don Yates was a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and founder of the Greek Interpreters of Lansing.] <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/raymond-chandler-the-big-sleep-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-1939-first-edition-signed-by-the-author-on-the-fro/a/6208-45021.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Dashiell Hammett. <i><b>The Maltese Falcon</b></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. A remarkable copy, nearly fine in a near fine jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell case by Dragonfly Bindery. Perhaps the highspot of the hard-boiled canon. The first book to feature Sam Spade. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/dashiell-hammett-the-maltese-falcon-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-1930-first-edition/a/6208-45038.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Edgar A[llan]. Poe. <b><i>Tales</i></b>. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. First edition, first printing, with the copyright notice in four lines, and the imprints on the copyright page: "Stereotyped by T. B. Smith, 216 William Street, New York. H. Ludwig, Print." A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Queen's Quorum 1 ("the first important book of detective fiction, the first and the greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers' or collectors' guide, the highest of all highspots"). "The 1845 edition includes for the first time in book form all three Dupin stories - 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'The Mystery of Marie Roget,' and 'The Purloined Letter.' 'The Gold-Bug is also included, but not Poe's fourth detective story, Thou Art the Man'" (Queen's Quorum). <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/edgar-a-llan-poe-tales-new-york-wiley-andamp-putnam-1845-first-edition-first-printing-with-the-copyright-notice/a/6208-45061.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Anthony Boucher. <b><i>The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars</i></b>. New York: 1940. First edition, inscribed, with an advance copy. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/anthony-boucher-the-case-of-the-baker-street-irregulars-new-york-1940-first-edition-inscribed-with-an-adva-total-2/a/6208-45242.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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O. Henry. [Miniature Book]. <b><i>The Sleuths</i></b>. New York: 1914. First separate edition (?) with copyright certificate. About fine, housed in a custom clamshell case. Uncommon Sherlock pastiche, featuring Shamrock Jolnes. Originally issued in cigarette packages (Arcadia Falcone, "Sherlock Holmes's Infinite Case Book," Ransom Center Magazine, April 2013). <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/o-henry-miniature-book-the-sleuths-new-york-1914-first-separate-edition-with-copyright-certificate/a/6208-45303.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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<b>[Pinkerton Detective Agency]. Allan Pinkerton. Group of Sixteen Detective Books</b>. New York and Chicago: [1874-1884]. First editions, some inscribed. Sherlockians will recall the major role of Pinkerton's in <i>The Valley of Fear</i>. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/-pinkerton-detective-agency-allan-pinkerton-group-of-sixteen-detective-books-new-york-and-chicago-1874-1884-first-ed-total-16/a/6208-45329.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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And while the following don't specify that they're from Otto's collection, <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946447&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Nty=1&Ntt=Sherlock&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316">a search for "Sherlock Holmes"</a> in the <b>March 6 Rare Books Signature Auction Featuring The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction, Part One</b> yields some astonishing results.<br />
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All 12 stories that appeared in <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, in their original monthly serial appearance in <i>The Strand Magazine</i>, July 1891 - June 1892. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-july-1891-june-1892-original-monthl/a/6208-45076.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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While you're at it, why not add all twelve stories from <i>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</i>? Original appearance in The Strand Magazine, December 1892 - December 1893. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-dec-1892-dec-1893-original-monthly-s/a/6208-45077.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Both of these collections can be had as book form, in their first editions published by George Newnes, 1892 and 1894, respectively. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-1892-first-edition-first-state-wit-total-2/a/6208-45083.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Of course, Holmes had a brief hiatus (or an interminably long one, from the public's perspective) before returning in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, as serialized in nine issues of <i>The Strand Magazine</i>, August 1901 - April 1902. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-london-george-newnes-aug-1901-april-1902-original-monthly-s/a/6208-45078.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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If you'd prefer <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> in book form, Heritage can accommodate that as well. Here's the first edition, in its classic red cover with the silhouette of the hound on the cover. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-conan-doyle-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-another-adventure-of-sherlock-holmes-london-/a/6208-45084.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-SearchResults-120115&lotPosition=5|0">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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<i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> officially occurred in the pages of <i>The Strand Magazine</i> from October 1903 - December 1904, in thirteen issues. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-return-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-oct-1903-dec-1904-original-monthly-se/a/6208-45079.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-SearchResults-120115&lotPosition=2|0">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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It took 14 issues over six years to complete the collection known as <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> in <i>The Strand Magazine</i>. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-oct-1921-april-1927-original-monthl/a/6208-45081.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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You can pick your jaw up off of the floor now. You'll need it for the live auction.<br />
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