Sherlock Holmes Handbook
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Christopher Redmond. Sherlock Holmes Handbook
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SHERLOCK
HOLMES
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This fourth collection of Canonical short stories is the smallest of all, containing but eight tales — and that figure includes “The Cardboard Box,” originally published as one of The Memoirs but suppressed from 1894 until this volume appeared in 1917. The stories were somewhat rearranged from the order in which they had been originally published. The British edition was published by John Murray, apparently because Smith, Elder & Co. thought seven or eight stories too few to make a worthwhile book. The American edition appeared simultaneously, from George H. Doran Co. The subtitles of the two editions differ slightly: in Britain it was Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, and in the United States A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes. Many editions (but not, for example, the John Murray Short Stories) include a one-paragraph Preface signed by Watson: “The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well....”
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