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FROM WATSON’S NOTEBOOK

For once, the only Sherlock Holmes adventure in this issue is my own recounting of that business in Boscombe Valley. Partly this is due to the increasing difficulty we are having in finding writers willing to work with my difficult-to-read notes of those cases yet to be told. (Please see Mr Kaye’s comments below).

The second reason is that our next issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine will be devoted entirely to my companion’s exploits as what we both believe him to be, the world’s first professional consulting detective.

Mr Holmes, as ever, is quite pleased at the prospect of an entire issue devoted to him. The tales to be offered in our next number include my own tale of the Stockbroker’s Clerk, another case that I actually solved for Mrs Hudson and a third which, being a surprise, I’ll not discuss. Other cases include one concening a British political candidate’s election problems, the tale of a “wrong doctor,” a strange story of a burnt song, a case involving Holmes’s brother Mycroft and the story of what happened when a circus came to town with a distaff sharpshooter.

And now here is my colleague Mr Kaye….

–John H. Watson, M. D.

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As the good doctor stated above, this magazine is in need of more Holmesian pastiches, and while they do not have to be any of the tales yet to be told, that would be welcome, of course. In that wise, you will see below Dr W.’s cases that he never wrote up; to be precise, the only ones listed are ones that have not appeared in this magazine or in any of my three Sherlock Holmes anthologies.

Canonically Yours,

Marvin Kaye

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SHERLOCK HOLMES’S CASES STILL TO BE TOLD

 • ADVENTURE OF THE TIRED CAPTAIN

 • THE BISHOPSGATE JEWEL CASE (Inspector Jones will never forget how Holmes lectured the police force on it.)

 • THE CAMBERWELL POISONING CASE (By winding up the dead man’s watch, Holmes proved it had been wound up 2 hours ago, and that therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time—a deed of the greatest importance in clearing up the case.)

 • THE CASE OF THE DUKE OF HOLDERNESSE (Holmes claimed a reward.)

 • THE CASE OF MME. MONTPENSIER

 • THE CASE OF MR. FAIRDALE HOBBS

 • THE CASE OF THE PAPERS OF EX-PRESIDENT MURILLO

 • THE CONK-SINGLETON FORGERY CASE

 • THE CUTTER ALICIA (Which sailed one spring morning into a small patch of mist from where she never again emerged, nor was anything further ever heard of herself and her crew… an unsolved case.)

 • THE DRAMATIC ADVENTURE OF DR MOORE AGAR

 • THE DREADFUL BUSINESS OF THE ABERNETTY FAMILY OF BALTIMORE

 • THE DUNDAS SEPARATION CASE (One of the most revered names in England is besmirched by blackmail. “Only I can stop a desperate scandal.”)

 • THE FAMOUS SMITH-MORTIMER SUCCESSION CASE (1894)

 • THE INTRICATE MATTER IN MARSEILLES

 • THE NETHERLANDS SUMATRA CO. AND THE COLOSSAL SCHEMES OF BARON MAUPERTUIS (A case intimately connected with politics and finance and which led to Sherlock Holmes’s near breakdown.) (Boer War?)

 • THE PECULIAR PERSECUTION OF JOHN VINCENT HARDEN

 • THE SHOCKING AFFAIR OF THE DUTCH STEAMSHIP FRIESLAND (Which so nearly cost us both our lives.)

 • THE SINGULAR TRAGEDY OF THE ATKINSON BROTHERS AT TRINCOMALEE

 • THE ST. PANCRAS CASE

 • THE TANKERVILLE CLUB SCANDAL

 • THE TRAGEDY OF WOODMAN’S LEE

 • THE VENOMOUS LIZARD OR GILA (“Remarkable case, that!”)

 • VIGOR, THE HAMMERSMITH WONDER

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