Sherlockian Saturdays at the Pratt.
Edited & introduced by William Hyder.
Inspired by a passage in Christopher Morley’s preface to Doubleday’s The Complete Sherlock Holmes, in which Morley recalled walking to “the old Enoch Pratt free library” to borrow “a Conan Doyle he had not read,” Baltimore area Sherlockians established a Weekend with Sherlock Holmes in 1980. Thirty-five years later, the Six Napoleons of Baltimore and its offshoot, the Carlton Club, continue to team up with the Pratt Library and present a symposium on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective.
During the course of the past three-plus decades, a remarkable variety of canonical scholarship has been presented at this annual event, now called “A Saturday with Sherlock Holmes.” For this volume, Bill Hyder, who took over the reins from founder Phil Sherman in 1996, has carefully selected papers representing the program’s entire span, from the earliest years to the present, on a variety of subject matter. The result is an estimable anthology of traditional Sherlockian scholarship that would grace the shelf of any Holmes enthusiast.
“A splendid survey of three decades of Canonical scholarship.”
—Peter E. Blau, Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press
192 pages, 10″ x 7″ trade paperback, August 2014
With 13 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents for Sherlockian Saturdays at the Pratt
Introduction
by William Hyder
The Baltimore Connection: Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Morley (1987)
by Steven Rothman
In Search of a Childhood (2000)
by Beth Austin
Sherlock Holmes — Misogynist? (1985)
by Daniel F. Thomas
A Villa in Sussex (2011)
by W. Glenn Lieske
Active in Retirement: Sherlock Holmes on the South Downs (2003)
by Deborah Clark
Sherlock Holmes and the Police (1995)
by William Hyder
Holmes in America (1986)
by Philip K. Wilson
The Writings of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
by Andrew Lee Solberg
John H. Watson, M.D.: Non-Surgical Surgeon (1982)
by Dr. Robert S. Katz
The Wives of Dr. Watson (2010)
by Daniel F. Thomas
Watson in Love (2002)
by Dana Richards
Sherlock Holmes Offstage (2001)
by Deborah Clark
Women in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1989)
by Sandra J. Ailiff
Tracking the Hound (2001)
by Andrew Lee Solberg
The Ones that Got Away (1995)
by Marshall S. Berdan
Loose Ends and Broken Threads: The Failures of Sherlock Holmes (2003)
by Dana Richards
Illustrious and Titled Clients (2005)
by Daniel F. Thomas
Con Artists and Impostors (2009)
by Evelyn Herzog and John Baesch
A Study in Landladies (1985)
by Dr. Robert S. Katz
Secret Societies in the Adventures (1994)
by John Pforr
Painting in the Canon (2008)
by James H. Arva
Canonical Restaurants and Inns (1996)
by John Pforr
Sherlock Holmes and the Press (1982)
by William Hyder
Trincomalee and Trepoff: Holmes in the Headlines (1998)
by Peter Calamai
Enter Basil Rathbone (1995)
by James H. Arva
A Brief Film History of John H. Watson, M.D. (1990)
by James H. Arva
Poe Sets the Pattern (2004)
by Beth Austin
Encounter in Westminster Churchyard (2004)
by William Hyder
Appendix: Timeline
Contributors
Editor’s Acknowledgements
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