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From: wvwong@watcgl.UUCP (Victoria Wong)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Young Sherlock Holmes blooper
Message-ID: <87@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 23:19:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 23:19:16 1986
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Reply-To: wvwong@watcgl.UUCP (Victoria Wong)
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Summary: Not really a blooper 

In article <118@sx7000.UUCP> blake@sx7000.UUCP (Chris Blake) writes:
>   Did anyone see when some older person (the dean? I forget) told
>Sherlock that he read too many detective novels?  Given the period of
>the SH stories and that this was even earlier than that, it should be
>pointed out that detective stories hadn't been invented yet.  If I
>remember Edgar Allen Poe wrote the first one "Murder in the Rue Morgue"
>(or something like that) near the turn of the century.

"Murder in the Rue Morgue" was written in 1841, so Sherlock Holmes had
no problem reading that around 1870. Both Holmes and Watson had read
Poe's stories, they referred to his character Dupin in "A Study in Scarlet".
(Any BSI reading this? What do you think? :-)

"I know a Moriarty when I see one."    --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.