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Occasional Papers – Number One

Author Roger Johnson

Published on: July 19, 2025

The Journal of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London is regarded as one of the founts of Sherlockian research and scholarship within the Sherlockian world. Its popularity is such that the Honorary Editors receive more material than can be published therein.

The Publishing Sub-Committee of the Society has sought to rectify this. The publishing of ‘Occasional Papers’ allows some of those articles which have not yet been published in the Journal to be presented in a separate format. This is the first of what is hoped to be a number of ‘Occasional Papers’. This first publication takes as its theme the influences which have allowed detective fiction to develop and the influences which Arthur Conan Doyle may have felt in creating the doyen of detectives, Sherlock Holmes.

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION
by Ashley Mayo

RONALD A. KNOX: “STUDIES IN THE LITERATURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES”
REVISITED, AND LITERARY CONVERGENCES WITH ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
by Donald Zaldin

‘HOLMES WAS AT CAMFORD. DISCUSS.’
by Nick Dunn-Meynell

THE FLITWICK BRIDGE MYSTERY: A HOLMES APPRENTICE PIECE?
by Malcolm Noble

THE INTUITION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Jim Webb

“SHERLOCK SPADE” – WAS HOLMES A HARDBOILED DETECTIVE?
by Ron Levitsky

HOLMES IS WHERE THE HEART IS: RE-READING CONAN DOYLE
by Deborah Thomas

THAT MURKY GRAVEYARD, THE RIVER THAMES
by Kelvin I Jones