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I Am an Omnivorous Reader 4000W “I AM AN OMNIVOROUS READER” Book reviews by NICHOLAS UTECHIN and ROGER JOHNSON The Biography and Autobiography of Sherlock the author’s wit as well as his scholarship. In an Holmes by Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock Holmes, interview posted on Dan Andriacco’s blog, at edited by Don Libey. Campbell & Lewis . 2013 . 238 http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.co.uk/, he explains pp. $17 the immense amount of research involved, and adds: Last year I reviewed here Mr Libey’s The “I present some previously unknown facts regarding Autobiography of Sherlock Holmes , one of the most the years when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was alive, revisionist and fun books I have read in our field. I but in the later half of the book there are big chunks did, however, point out that, because of the number of unknown facts.” Definitely one to look out for! of Americanisms present, Mr Libey’s discovery might not actually be the real thing. Aide-de-Camp to Conan Doyle: The Boer War Don got in touch, saying that quite Diary of Charles Blasson edited by Ken Cooper. extraordinarily he had come across a 1925 Morocco- CreateSpace . 2013. 64pp. £6.99 (pbk) bound privately printed volume entitled My Brother In the preface to The Great Boer War , ACD Sherlock – by Mycroft Holmes and that he wanted to wrote: “There are many who have helped me in my reprint the Autobiography and add it to the task, but I especially acknowledge the co-operation Biography and bring them out in one volume. Might of Mr Blasson, of the Langman Hospital, now dead I cast an eye over both prior to publication? I did in the service of his country…” In 1900 Charles (receiving a small fee for so doing) and Don Blasson was one of five senior students from acknowledges such contribution as I made in the University College Hospital recruited as dressers to present volume: “…generous assistance…offering the medical professionals at the Langman Field stylistic and editorial recommendations”. Hospital in South Africa. Conan Doyle was there for Thus you know the context in which I write this just over four months, writing as well as tending the review. sick and wounded. Blasson, who acted as his All I have to say about the Autobiography was secretary, died only three weeks later, on his twenty- basically there in the Winter 2012 issue: take a deep third birthday, of typhoid — the enteric fever that breath and just believe that all our givens about had laid John H Watson low at Peshawur. Ken Holmes’s background are given away. In a Cooper, married to Blasson’s great-niece, has edited remarkably well written way. and published his diary, illustrated with twenty Mycroft’s biography — as delineated by Libey photographs and a map. The title isn’t inaccurate, — is just as intriguing, but there is throughout the though it implies a closer relationship with Conan feeling of the “one-trick-pony”. The fight against Doyle than Blasson actually had, but it should attract Professor Moriarty and his organisation was crucial people to read the book — which, short as it is, is an to the brothers; this text almost implies that there intelligent, honest and, in its very matter-of-factness, was nothing more. I did, however, much enjoy moving first-hand account of an extraordinary Mycroft’s (or Mr Libey’s) hard work in researching situation. Aide-de-Camp to Conan Doyle is available every possible MOR(iarty) spelling hints in the from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. Canon — there are fifty-eight of them. NU East Wind Coming: A Sherlockian Study Book by Yuichi Hirayama and John Hall. MX Publishing . Från Holmes till Sherlock by Mattias Boström. 2013. 240pp. £9.99 (pbk) Piratförlaget . 2013. 514pp. 195kr (hbk) The Shoso-in Bulletin , published in English It’s a delight to welcome a really important new between 1991 and 2004, was the most truly work of Holmesian scholarship, even though, as an international Holmesian periodical of all. It was English monoglot, I’m unable to appreciate it to the founded by our distinguished Japanese member full. Från Holmes till Sherlock , the masterwork of Hirayama Yuichi, whose own contributions alone Mattias Boström , winner of the BSI’s 2009 Morley- justified the Bulletin ’s existence. This new book Montgomery Award, is in Swedish. A Danish gathers twenty-eight of Dr Hirayama’s essays, from edition is expected next year, and I very much hope The Shoso-in Bulletin , The Baker Street Journal , The that the book will be translated into English before Ritual and elsewhere, along with four collaborations too long. Meanwhile, the Scandinavian influence on with a leading English Holmesian, John Hall. Yuichi the English language allows us to grasp the essence has discovered, in a Japanese detection manual of of some, at least, of Mr Boström’s text. The book is 1940, the simple means by which Holmes remarkably comprehensive, and, I suspect, reflects determined the direction Herr Heidegger’s bicycle travelled on the moor. In Grand Duke Paul of murder. Real-life detectives were immortalised in Russia, he has identified the most credible candidate fiction — Inspector Field as Inspector Bucket in for the King of Bohemia. As a dentist, he explains, Bleak House , Inspector Whicher as Sergeant Cuff in entirely convincingly (alas!), that Sherlock Holmes The Moonstone — and fictional murder became big was toothless. The collaborations examine Holmes’s business, not least when it was satisfactorily solved sporting prowess, Watson’s qualifications, and the by a truly great detective, as too few factual murders travesty of Holmes in the Arsène Lupin canon — but were. Sherlock Holmes came on to the scene just as most stimulating, I think, are the authors’ the police and scientific specialists were learning, as discussions of the first nine cases in The Adventures . Dr Worsley puts it, to read a body. It was a timely Altogether it’s a fine collection! arrival. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders is rightly recommended as the fuller, more Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession and Practice by comprehensive study, and A Very British Murder Douglas Kerr. Oxford University Press . 2013. makes a grand companion volume. 288pp. £30.00 (hbk) Each chapter looks at the various aspects of Victoria’s Madmen: Revolution and Alienation Conan Doyle’s unusually varied life, and considers by Clive Bloom. Palgrave Macmillan . 2013. 320pp. the influence and the impact that they had on his £20.00 (hbk) writing. Born in Scotland of an Irish mother and a Arthur Conan Doyle features in Professor second-generation English father, he was schooled in Bloom’s new book as one of many extraordinary England, studied medicine in Scotland, and for the people whose ideas ran counter to, or sometimes rest of his life was based in England. All three parallel to, the accepted conformism of the British cultures are evident in his writing, and Professor imperial establishment. Some were genuinely insane, Kerr may be right in calling him Britain’s last like the painter Richard Dadd; some were truly bad; national writer. His initial career in medicine, in and some may have been deluded; while “Grey which he twice acted as ship’s surgeon and briefly as Owl”, for instance, pretended to be what he was not ophthalmologist, as well as general practitioner, for a sound and worthwhile purpose. Some, like influenced his creation of Sherlock Holmes as the William Morris, knew that their visions were just world’s first consulting detective. Even if you didn’t that, but knew too that they were worth striving for. know, you could probably deduce from his fiction Drugs, ghosts, sham-messiahs, megalomania, piety, that he was also a scientist, sportsman, historian, the fight against injustice — it’s all here, though the liberal imperialist and amateur criminologist, and of linking thread is not always apparent. There’s a course his spiritualist mission occupied much of the bibliography, but, annoyingly, no sources are given latter part of his life. Douglas Kerr’s essays are for the many quotations. particularly valuable in placing each topic within its historical and social context. His prose is as Benedict Cumberbatch, in Transition: An intelligent and lucid as his approach to his subject. Unauthorised Performance Biography by This is an admirable book. Lynnette Porter. 2013. 352pp. £12.99 (pbk) Lynnette Porter is the editor of Sherlock A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Obsession by Lucy Worsley. BBC Books . 2013. Adaptations . Here she surveys Cumberbatch’s career 320pp. £20.00 (hbk) as an actor, touching on his extra-curricular life only As Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, Dr to the extent that it influences his acting or is Worsley is probably best known for her works on the influenced by the transition from jobbing actor to monarchy and the development of the British home, star to celebrity. The facts are meticulously (but not but her interest in murder as a social phenomenon is tediously) referenced, and the writing is both literate genuine. In 1827 Thomas De Quincey’s satirical and engaging. Sherlock is the turning-point, but it’s essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine good to be reminded of the extent and importance of Arts” broached the idea of the English as “Murder- the actor’s career, before, during and after the Fanciers”. He was inspired by the brutal killing in breakthrough to stardom: acclaimed rôles in 1811 of a shopkeeper and his family in Ratcliffe Rhinoceros and Hedda Gabler at the Royal Court, Highway, and the possible miscarriage of justice by After the Dance at the Old Vic, and Frankenstein at which John Williams was speedily arrested, the National Theatre; performances as Van Gogh convicted and hanged.
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