From Piff-Pouff to Backnecke:
Ronald Knox and 100 Years of
“Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes”
by Nicholas Utechin, BSI.
Ronald Knox presented a paper at Oxford in 1911 that many regard as forming the basis of the Sherlockian Grand Game. His brilliant paper combined a lively humor with nit-picking observations and insights into the Holmes tales. Nick Utechin provides the fascinating story behind this event, including the paper’s evolution and its place in the Sherlockian world.
But “education never ends,” and further information about this seminal paper can be found in Utechin’s “The Case of the First Reading” in the Spring 2011 BSJ as well as in the third volume in The Grand Game Limited Edition.
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Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
A note on Knox
The Gryphon Club
The meeting
A feel of what followed
Seeds of the studies
Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes
Publishing History
Textual changes between 1912 and 1928
Reviews
The Roberts review
Aftermath
Attenta! Attenta!
Whodunit?
Related Information
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