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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: The world of Sherlock Holmes
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 09:31:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 10 09:31:09 1985
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I've just come back to net.mail after some months of not reading it,
and am delighted to find a discussion about Sherlock Holmes -- my
greatest enthusiasm in life! -- going on here.

Even those of us who are practically full-time Sherlockians are having
trouble keeping up with the "pastiches" (the accepted in-word for
Holmes stories not written by the original Doyle).  There are dozens
of them and they're almost all awful, although Prisoner of the Devil
(Hardwick) and a couple of others are pretty acceptable.

All of them are listed in the book-size bibliographies of Holmes and Watson
compiled by Ronald De Waal of Colorado State University (two volumes in
print, a third one due shortly) but of course there is a several years'
delay before the listings appear. (The first book-length pastiche, The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, actually a collection of short tales,
dates from 1944.)

In the shorter run, they're generally reported in the Sherlockian journals,
of which there are dozens -- about three major ones and lots and lots of
local newsletters.

I would be happy to provide the address of anybody's nearest Sherlockian
society (most North American cities and college towns have them) on
request. 

You'll get a faster response from me if you use the address
    watdcs!credmond
since I am only on watmath occasionally.