Canada and Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by
Peter Calamai, BSI and Mark Alberstat, BSI.
Canada and Sherlock Holmes contains a selection of the best Holmesian writing from Canada, many produced by members of The Bootmakers of Toronto, Canada’s national Sherlockian society. Although two other book-length compilations of the Bootmakers’ writings have appeared in the past, the pieces in this collection have not been previously anthologized.
Included in this volume are essays dealing with Canonical persons, places and things related to Canada, the travels there by Arthur Conan Doyle and his family, and the treasure trove of Doylean and Sherlockian items at the Toronto Metropolitan Library. Another article, “Birth and Scandal – Ms. Holmes of Baker Street,” deals with Alan Bradley’s notorious notion of Holmes as a woman, which has intrigued, outraged and challenged scholars for decades. Also, sprinkled throughout the book is a selection poetry and Canonical lyrics.
232 pages, 9″ x 6″ hardcover, December 2016
With 39 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents for Canada and Sherlock Holmes
PREFACE
by Donald J. Hobbs
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Through the Magic Door
by Mark Alberstat and Peter Calamai
A Mari Usque ad Mare with Holmes (and Conan Doyle)
by Peter Calamai
We Always Mention Our Sherlock
by David Sanders
PART 2: THE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE COLLECTION
A Closer Look at the Four Pillars of the Collection
by Hartley Nathan
Hidden Ephemera Treasures in Toronto
by Barbara Rusch
What’s Canadian in the Canadian Collection
by Peggy Perdue
The Last Card File
by Donald Redmond
It Is Good to Have Friends
by Doug Wrigglesworth
The Darkness that Surrounds the Angels
by Christopher Roden
Notes from a Man of Letters
by Cameron Hollyer
PART 3: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE IN CANADA
Welcome to Canada, Mr, Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle in Canada
by Christopher Redmond
Photos from Doyle’s own album taken in Canada and promotional reprint of Conan Doyle’s poem “The Athabaska Trail.”
PART 4: THE CANADIAN CONNECTION
A Very Canadian Murder Mystery
by Jamie Portman
Birth and Scandal — Ms. Holmes of Baker Street
by Alan Bradley (transcript of interview)
The Sleazy Truth
by Paul Gouett
“I Could Concoct a Better Plot,” and More
by L.B. Greenwood
Cardinal Tosca — It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
By Jamie Portman
PART 5: SCHOLARSHIP IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
The Adler Commission on Porn in the Canon
by True Davidson
In Bed With Sherlock Holmes
by Jim Ballinger
A Glass of Wine with Sherlock
by Tony Aspler
If We Have to Be Whimsical
by S. Tupper Bigelow
Professor Moriarty: the Criminal Crammer
by Peter Calamai
A Remarkable Worm Said to be Unknown to Science
by Frederick Aldrich
The Lure Of the Chase
by Christopher Redmond
ACD Sonnet XXII — Charles Augustus Milverton
by Len Haffenden
Quick Watson, the Needle
by J. Thomas Dalby
The Two Worlds of Holmes and Watson
by Graeme Decarie
His Last Bow
by Karen Gold
The Wicked Colonel’s Canadian Connection
by Mark Alberstat
A Case of Fine China
by Ted Gurr
The Course Prescribed for Surgeons: Netley Observed
by Michael Higgs
Laura Lyons — Typist or Temptress?
by Janice McNabb
Bad, Bad Silas Brown
by Karen Campbell
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