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FROM WATSON’S SCRAPBOOK

Once more Holmes and I must do without the offices of Mrs Hudson for some time to come, inasmuch as she is nursing her ailing Aunt Ruth in Yorkshire. Her daily rounds and our personal needs are being ministered to by our landlady’s friend Mrs Warren, and whereas her cooking is not as interesting as Mrs H, it is perfectly adequate. Of course, we cannot include in this eleventh issue of Sherolock Holmes Mystery Magazine the usual column that Mrs Hudson normally contributes, but Mrs Warren has agreed to try her hand at a bit of authorship.

Otherwise, I am pleased to offer no fewer than three Holmesian tales, the business of a countess who went missing, the Paradol Chamber adventure that I earlier alluded to (in each instance I made my own notes available to Messrs Grochot and Koons so they could do their best to understand my lamentable handwriting and chronicle those cases); also included is may retelling of the somewhat risible case of the Red-headed League.

I pointed out to Holmes that I also prevailed upon Mr Dan Andriacco, of Ohio, to write an article pertaining to a well-known American detective and his chronicler’s agent, Mr Rex Stout, but I could not elicit any comment at all from my friend and room-mate other than to say that for “legal reasons” his lips are sealed upon this subject.

Now for a few words from my colleague Mr Kaye.

—John H Watson, M D

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Now that SHMM is on a bimonthly publication schedule, I am pleased to report that fictional submissions have kept pace with the demand for more content—both Holmesian and non-Canonical ratiocinative adventurings. But alas, our nonfiction folder is not in as healthy a condition, and we are therefore much in need of new contributions. If you think you have something to interest us, please describe the article you would like to write for us in a message sent to me at marvinnkaye@yahoo.com (and do note there are two n’s in the middle of the address).

In this the eleventh number of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, several non-Watsonian exploits include a clever ghost story solved by a Jewish cantor (mind you, not the rabbi!) as well as a new Marc Bilgrey piece and the latest of Kelly Locke’s semi-Holmesian cases by Hal Charles. Both of the latter authors also will appear in our next issue, as will regular contributors Gary Lovisi and Jack Grochot, and Fran Valentine is booked for a return engagement.

—Canonically Yours,

Marvin Kaye

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