THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SOCIETY OF LONDON Roger Johnson, Mole End, 41 Sandford Road, Chelmsford CM2 6DE e-mail:
[email protected] no. 241 20 April 2004 Richard Lancelyn Green , who died on 27 March aged fifty, owned sweet and courtly fellow’, in Mary Ellen’s words, Norm Davis was what may have been the most important collection of Holmesiana an unashamed punster and the pawkiest humorist in that most light- and Doyleana in private hands; moreover he was one of the two or hearted Sherlockian society, The Pawky Humorists. three leading authorities on Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and work. He In an attractively presented 32-page booklet entitled The Partial Art joined the Sherlock Holmes Society of London in 1966, becoming, of Detection (The Shoso-in Press, 2-10-12 Kamirenjaku, Mitaka-shi, thirty years later, an active, amiable and inspired Chairman. In 1985 Tokyo 181-0012, Japan; $8.00) Balaji Narashimhan presents 235 he was invested into the Baker Street Irregulars as ‘The Three observations from Sherlock Holmes, arranged alphabetically by Gables’, and his importance was recognised by Doylean and story (in Prof. Christ’s title abbreviations) and indexed under eighty- Holmesian scholars world-wide. He and John Michael Gibson two key words. I have to say that the index appears capricious: none compiled a magnificent bibliography of Conan Doyle, and Richard, of the words from ‘Results without causes are much more solo or in collaboration, edited many of Conan Doyle’s writings that impressive’ [ STOC ] appears in the index; and although the index had not previously been available in book form.