Profile by Gaslight
An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
by Edgar W. Smith, Vincent Starrett, Heywood Broun, Howard Haycraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Howard Collins, George F. McCleary, Christopher Morley, Anthony Boucher, Charles Honce, Charles Goodman, P M Stone, Belden Wigglesworth, W. S. Hall, Rufus S. Tucker, Logan Clendening, E. E. Kellett, Reginald Fitz, Stephen Vincent Benét, Julian Wolff, James Keddie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Helene Yuhasova, Robert Keith Leavitt, Felix Morley, Carolyn Wells, Fletcher Pratt, H. W. Bell, Elmer Davis, Alexander Woollcott, Harvey Officer, Buttons., and Evoe.
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Collection of essays and poems by various writers, dealing with the "private life of Sherlock Holmes," edited by Edgar W. Smith. Includes maps, illustrations, coats of arms, genealogical tables, portrait.
Contents:
To a very literary lady / Vincent Starrett --
Sherlock Holmes and the Pygmies / Heywood Broun --
The profile emerges / Howard Haycraft --
To an undiscerning critic / Arthur Conan Doyle --
Ex libris Sherlock Holmes / Howard Collins --
Was Sherlock Holmes a drug addict? / George F. McCleary --
Triolet on the immortality of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson / "Buttons" --
Clinical notes by a resident patient / Christopher Morley --
Was the later Holmes an imposter? / Anthony Boucher --
Sherlock Holmes in the news / Charles Honce --
The dental Holmes / Charles Goodman --
The other friendship : a speculation / P.M. Stone --
The coat of arms of Sherlock Holmes / Belden Wigglesworth --
The true and proper coat of arms / W.S. Hall --
Genealogical notes on Holmes / Rufus S. Tucker --
The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening --
Monody on the death of Sherlock Holmes / E.E. Kellett --
A belated eulogy / Reginald Fitz --
Dr Watson / Stephen Vincent Benét --
That was no lady / Julian Wolff --
The mystery of the second wound / James Keddie, Sr. --
Ballade of Watson in the morning / Belden Wigglesworth --
Dr Watson's Christian name / Dorothy L. Sayers --
Sonnet : Mary Morstan to J.H. Watson / Helene Yuhasova --
Thoughts on seeing "The hound of the Baskervilles" at the cinema / "Evoe" --
Sonnet on Baker Street / Christopher Morley --
The long road to Maiwand / Edgar W. Smith --
The singular adventures of Martha Hudson / Vincent Starrett --
Annie Oakley in Baker Street / Robert Keith Leavitt --
The significance of the second stain / Felix Morley --
Ballade of Baker Street / Carolyn Wells --
A scandal in identity / Edgar W. Smith --
The secret message of the dancing men / Fletcher Pratt --
Three identifications / H.W. Bell --
221B / Vincent Starrett --
The Constitution and buy-laws of the B.S.I. / Elmer Davis --
The Baker Street irregulars / Alexander Woollcott --
An unrecorded incident / Anon --
Anthem : the road to Baker Street / Harvey Officer.
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Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader About the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1944, Simon and Schuster
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