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Bohemian Souls Bohemian Souls Edited and Introduced by Otto Penzler, BSI Order it at: www.bakerstreetjournal.com 199 pages, hardcover, January 2011 With the manuscript reproduction & 16 illustrations Contributor Information Curtis Armstrong, BSI (“An Actor and a Rare One”) is an actor living in Los Angeles. He is also a member of the P.G. Wodehouse Society. His other literary interests include Washington Irving, Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley and Johnson and Boswell. He has been published in The Baker Street Journal , Plum Lines and Wooster Sauce . In 2008, he directed and appeared as Dr. Watson in the Danite Players premiere performance of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Angels of Darkness in Salt Lake City, Utah. Phillip Bergem is a Civil Engineer with the Minnesota Department of Transportation. His areas of specialized interest include the Strand Magazine and the family history and writings of Arthur Conan Doyle. He is a member of the Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota. John Bergquist, BSI (“The King of Scandinavia”) is production editor for BSI Books, the book- publishing venture of the Baker Street Irregulars, including the History Series, the International Series and the Manuscript Series. He has long been active in the Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota, having served as co-leader of its study group and as editor of its newsletter, Explorations , and of its Christmas Annual . He also serves as Vice President of the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota and is on the editorial board of its newsletter. Ray Betzner, BSI (“The Agony Column”) is the Assistant Vice President of University Communications at Temple University in Philadelphia. In addition to Sherlock Holmes, he has long had a fascination for the work of Vincent Starrett and edited the 75th anniversary edition of Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes . He received the BSI’s Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award in 2007. www.bakerstreetjournal.com Page 1 of 3 Bohemian Souls Andrew G. Fusco, BSI (“Athelney Jones”) was invested in 1972 and is the current General Editor of The Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series; this volume is the second under his tenure. The first was So Painful a Scandal , published in 2009. Mr. Fusco’s first published Sherlockian work appeared in The Baker Street Journal in 1969, and he has been an avid student of the Canon, commentator and collector for more than 40 years. A practicing attorney in Morgantown, W.V., he has served as informal legal adviser to the last three leaders of the BSI. He is a member of numerous Sherlockian societies including The Scion of the Four, in which he has served as Commissionaire since 1971. Michael Kean, BSI (“General Charles Gordon”) is a retired publishing industry executive who now directs the marketing of The Baker Street Irregulars’ publications. His articles have appeared in major Sherlockian periodicals, and he has edited over a dozen books and monographs. Since moving to the Monterey Peninsula in 1983, he has been actively involved in The Diogenes Club of Carmel-by-the-Sea, the oldest scion on California’s central coast. John Linsenmeyer, BSI (“Tobias Gregson”) practiced law as a commercial barrister for forty years, was a member of the Special Branch of the Greenwich Police Department 1966-87, finishing as a Sergeant assigned to the Marine Division, edited The Baker Street Journal for five years, and in 2004 took Holy Orders as a permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church. He is a member of the Five Orange Pips and has written numerous Sherlockian articles, specializing in demonstrations that upon occasion Holmes reached the wrong conclusions. Andrew J. Peck, BSI , (“Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary”) was invested by Dr. Julian Wolff in 1973, at the age of 20. At that same BSI Dinner, he was awarded the Morley-Montgomery Award for his article, “The Solitary Man-Uscript” in the June 1972 Baker Street Journal . He is the author of “ The Date Being–?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data , privately published in 1970, and (with Leslie S. Klinger) in 1996 as an Expanded and Revised edition. Andy represented Dame Jean Conan Doyle in connection with Granada’s Jeremy Brett television series. Since February 1995, he has been a United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Otto Penzler, BSI (“The King of Bohemia”) is the owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He founded The Mysterious Press in 1975 and sold it to Warner Books in 1989; he currently has an imprint, Otto Penzler Books, with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in America and Atlantic Books in England. The author and editor of more than 70 books, he has won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, as co-author of the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection (1976) and as editor of The Lineup (2009). Donald Pollock is a member of The Five Orange Pips. Julia Rosenblatt, BSI (“Mrs. Turner”) is a former Vassar College psychology professor. While on a ski trip some years ago, she encountered Reichenbach Falls and came away with a keen interest in Sherlock Holmes and his world. With Chef Fritz Sonnenschmidt, she wrote Dining with Sherlock Holmes . The BSI honored her by naming her The Woman in 1979; she was invested in 1991. She is a member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes. www.bakerstreetjournal.com Page 2 of 3 Bohemian Souls Randall Stock, BSI (“South African Securities”) presented papers on rare Conan Doyle material at Harvard’s Conan Doyle Symposium and at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively on the subject, including a history of the manuscript of “The Three Students” in So Painful a Scandal . His website, The Best of Sherlock Holmes <www.bestofsherlock.com> provides information on and checklists of rare Sherlockiana. Randall also manages the websites for The Baker Street Journal and the BSI Trust. Table of Contents General Editor’s Foreword and Preface to the Series Andrew G. Fusco vii Introduction Otto Penzler 1 Initial Reflections on a Scandal Phillip Bergem 9 Manuscript Facsimile of “A Scandal in Bohemia” with Annotated Transcription by Phillip Bergem 17 Description of the Manuscript Randall Stock 97 Revealing “A Scandal in Bohemia”: Its History and Manuscript Randall Stock 105 The Curious Case of the Very Odd Marriage John Linsenmeyer 125 As to Your Dates, That Is the Biggest Mystification of All Andrew Jay Peck 133 Cutting the Poetry: The Case Against an Affair Between Holmes and Irene Adler Ray Betzner 139 A Touch of the Dramatic Curtis Armstrong 145 The Late Irene Adler, of Dubious and Questionable Memory Michael H. Kean 157 Irene Adler in Dubious and Questionable Legend Julia Rosenblatt 177 Reflections on the Adler Problem Donald Pollock 185 Appendix: A Note from the Artist about the Jacket Illustration Rikki Niehaus 191 Contributors 197 www.bakerstreetjournal.com Page 3 of 3 .
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