The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes series continues with a three-act play that wasn't published until over a century after it was written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

The story of its discovery and dating is even more interesting than the play itself, which is...

Sherlock Holmes knew how to use newspapers to his advantage. Time and again, we see him scanning the agony column and making clippings.

 

He told Watson "The press is a most valuable institution if only one knows how to use it." Just how did he use it and in...

Ask the average citizen about the number thirteen, and it is likely to inspire terror, or at least some slight trepidation. Right up there with black cats and overturned saltshakers, the number thirteen has a long history associated with bad luck.

 

But what about in the Sherlock...

The monthly feature of Morley-Montgomery Award-winning articles continues apace, when we share these top-notch pieces of Sherlockian scholarship from the pages of The Baker Street Journal. 

 

This episode is from S.E. Dahlinger's truly remarkable 1999 article "The Sherlock...