The Sherlock Holmes Society Journal

The Sherlock Holmes Journal is published twice a year, usually in July and December. It is the official voice of the Society and contains its Transactions, news and reviews, letters and editorial notes. It is also home to the most erudite scholarship, publishing learned articles from Holmesians world-wide who have something to say on any aspect of Sherlock Holmes and his world. It has been appearing without a break since the first issue in May 1952.

Book reviews

The most recent issue, Summer 2010, contains the following articles, as well as the usual notes, reviews and letters:

EDITORIAL: "TO GET THEM A TESTIMONIAL"
A report on the unveiling of a plaque at the Langham Hotel, where Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde dined in 1889 with the publisher of LippincottÕs Monthly Magazine. As a result of that meeting Conan Doyle wrote The Sign of the Four and Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray.

EDITORIAL NOTES - Awards and honours presented by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and the Baker Street Irregulars; Sherlock Holmes id the Fastest Iconic Book Character at the London Marathon; The Great Detective returns to Madame Tussauds; 2010 marks the 150th birthday of Sidney Paget; The Society has lost a friend; A call for material for the Society's archives; We prepare for the return to Reichenbach; Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox return at the detective and the doctor twenty-five years after Young Sherlock Holmes; A Holmesian pachyderm in Baker Street.

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES TRAIL (part one) by Anthony Howlett, edited by Nicholas Utechin - Three years before the Society was founded, through exhaustive (and exhausting) research our late President identified the exact route that Holmes took from Meiringen to the Reichenbach Falls and beyond.

THE LITTLE WOMAN IN KENT by Lars Falk - Sherlock Holmes may have known Mrs Neville St Clair rather better than Dr Watson would have us believe.

DISPATCHES FROM KANDAHAR by Marcus Geisser - In 1880 Dr Watson was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand. 130 years later British troops are still fighting in Afghanistan. Marcus Geisser of the International Committee of the Red Cross reports from the war zone.

THEATRICAL THREADS: an edited version of the 2009 Richard Lancelyn Green Memorial Lecture (part two) by David Timson - A distinguished actor looks at the theatrical careers of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

IT SEEMS TO ME... by Auberon Redfearn - Renting a crowd proves more difficult than Holmes expected.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE MOTION PICTURE - Reviews by Society Members.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE OTHER MOTION PICTURE - M J Elliott reviews the "mockbuster'.

THE SECRET OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - A new production of Jeremy PaulÕs play, reviewed by Roger Johnson.

TRANSACTIONS by Carrie Chandler - The Annual Film Evening, devised and presented by M J Elliott.

ANNUAL DINNER 2010: THE BLACKMAILER'S BEANFEAST by Carrie Chandler - Ruth Rendell, creator of Inspector Wexford, was the Guest of Honour.

I AM AN OMNIVOROUS READER - Book reviews by Catherine Cooke, Nicholas Utechin, Guy Marriott, William Nadel and Roger Johnson

THE WIGMORE STREET POSTBAG - Letters to The Sherlock Holmes Journal

THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP - Contributors to this issue of the Journal

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The Sherlock Holmes Journal
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