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A “Adventure of the Orient Express, The” Abramson, Ben, 66, 131, 176, 209, death of (pastiche), 325 227-8, 239, 381, 453 “Adventure of the Priory School, The” thumbnail biography, 377 (), 303, 304, 352 “Acts of Peter” (Apocryphal New Testament), “Adventure of the Red Circle, The” (Arthur 356-8 Conan Doyle), 354 Adams, Robert P., 59 “Adventure of the Seven Clocks, The” (John Adler, Irene, 27, 39, 168, 177, 194, 289, 312, Dickson Carr and Adrian Conan Doyle), 342 193, 203, 385 Adventure, An (C.A.E. Moberly and E.F. “Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, The” Jourdain), 318 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 350 “Adventure of Black Peter, The” (Arthur “Adventure of the Speckled Band, The” Conan Doyle), 121, 350, 352 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 99, 102*, 143, “Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, 161*, 320, 335 The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 50 “Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, The” Adventures of , The (Arthur (Arthur Conan Doyle), 274 Conan Doyle), 160 “Adventure of the Three Gables, The” (Arthur “Adventure of the Acephalous Agronomist, Conan Doyle), 353 The” (“A. Conan Watson,” pseudonym for “Adventure of the Three Garridebs, The” VS), 287-8 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 352, 355 “Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The” “Adventure of the Three Students, The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 21, 89, 123, 166, (Arthur Conan Doyle), 354 202, 229, 273 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Arthur “Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Conan Doyle), 44, 157, 276, 441 The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 309, 352 Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, “Adventure of the Clothes Line, The” The (Arthur Conan Doyle), Modern (Carolyn Wells), 48, 433 Library Edition, 74 “Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The” Adversary, The (H.H. Lynde), 244 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 90, 99, 321* Akron (Ohio), 59, 198 “Adventure of the Copper Beeches, The” Alexander the Great, 274 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 157, 170 Alfred Street (Russell McLauchlin), 88 “Adventure of the Dancing Men, The” (Arthur Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), 44-5, Conan Doyle), 55, 94, 96, 210, 259, 262, 74, 90, 269, 422 351 All About Lucia (E.F. Benson), 198 “Adventure of the Dying Detective, The” All the Books of My Life (Sheila Kaye-Smith), (Arthur Conan Doyle), 49, 49*, 245, 355 232 “Adventure of the Empty House, The” (Arthur All the Year Round (magazine), 276, 389 Conan Doyle), 79, 100, 121, 320, 445 Allen, Grant, 158, 288 “Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, The” thumbnail biography, 377 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 352 Allen, Jerry, 251 “Adventure of the Illustrious Client, The” Allingham, Margery, 30, 265 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 215, 352, 353, 355, thumbnail biography, 377 420 Allison, Young E., 376 “Adventure of the Lion’s Mane, The” (Arthur Alphonse Bertillon (Henry T. F. Rhodes), 230 Conan Doyle), 352 Always the Young Strangers (Carl Sandburg), “Adventure of the Masked Ball, The” 206, 423 (supposed pastiche invented by VS), 67, Amateur Mendicant Society (Sherlockian 76 society in Detroit), 69, 103, 412, 418 “Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, The” American Iliad, The (Otto Eisenschiml and (Arthur Conan Doyle), 98*, 353 Ralph Newman), 103, 394 “Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The” Anderson, Frederick Irving, 30 (Arthur Conan Doyle), 172 Anderson, Robert (Sir), 75

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Andrew, Clifton R. 59*, 198, 397 (See also new chapter at Michigan State University, Scandalous Bohemians) 59 thumbnail biography, 377-8 President Franklin Roosevelt a secret Andrew, Lelah, 304 member, 62 Andrews, Charlton, 252 new journal, 66 Annals of Murder, The (Thomas M. McDade), VS aimed joke at, 76 284-5, 411 new scion in Baltimore, 86 “Angels of Darkness, The” (Arthur Conan look forward to publication of ACD Doyle), 70 manuscripts, 100 anthologies of mystery stories, 298 first Tokyo chapter, 102, 120-21 Antonio Stradivari: His Life and Work (W. publication of “The Blue Carbuncle,” 123 Henry Hill, Arthur F. Hill, Alfred E. Hill), “Best of the Pips,” 225 321 poll of favorite stories, 280-1, 281* “Apparition of Mrs. Veal, The” (Daniel founded by Christopher Morley, 111, 287 Defoe), 198 Baker Street Irregulars, chapters, See Arabian Nights, 25 Hounds of the Baskerville (sic) and Argus Book Shop, 228, 239, 377, 381, 411 Hugo’s Companions (See also Abramson, Ben) Baker Street Journal, The, 66, 103, 188, 312*, Argus Books, 101, 176 325, 377, 388, 395, 399, 426 Aristophanes, 54 “Baker Street Legacy” (Nathan Bengis), 173 , 65, 175, 391, 423 (See also Baker Street Pageboys (junior Sherlockian Derleth, August) society), 339, 419 Arlington Park race track, 292 “Baker Street Quartette, A” (Edgar Smith), Armenia, pastiche in, 32 167 “Art in the Blood” (James Montgomery), 168 “Baker Street Rubaiyat” (Nathan Bengis), 155 Art of the Mystery Story, The (Howard Baker Street Studies (H.W. Bell), 100, 381 Haycraft), 277, 298, 436 “Baker Street Suite” (Harvey Officer), 38, 414 At the Villa Rose (A.E. W. Mason), 300 Balfe, Michael William, 111 Auden, W. H., 279, 405 ballet adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, 207, thumbnail biography, 378 210 Austen, Jane, 145 Baltimore (Maryland), 86 Austin, Bliss, 320 Balzac, Honoré de, 55 thumbnail biography, 378 Bangs, John Kendrick, 32, 54 Avery, Delos, 36, 203, 339 thumbnail biography, 379 thumbnail biography, 378-9 Banned Books (Anne Lyon Haight), 44-5 Baring-Gould, William S., 228, 289-90, 302, B 312*, 331, 472 Babcock, Frederic, 130, 195-6 Baritsu chapter (of the Baker Street Back to Treasure Island (H.A. Calahan), 144 Irregulars), 120-21, 426 Bacon, Francis, 217 Barr, Robert, 54, 274 Badger, Shreve Cowles, 198 thumbnail biography, 379-80 Bailey, H.C., 30 Barrie, James M., 42, 54, 217, 269 thumbnail biography, 379 thumbnail biography, 380 Baker, Augustus, 158 Barrow, William, 91 Baker Street (), 72, 79, 80, 101*, 110- Barzun, Jacques, 236, 250, 268, 279, 298, 11, 173, 226 322*, 378 Baker Street Chronology (Ernest Zeisler), 208 thumbnail biography, 380-1 “Baker Street Folio, A,” 62* Basil and the Lost Colony (Eve Titus), 310, “Baker Street Four-Wheeler, A” (Edgar W. 430 Smith), 46 Basil of Baker Street (Eve Titus), 251, 431 “Baker Street Inventory” (Edgar W. Smith), Basilisk of St. James, The (Elizabeth Myers), 54 318 Baker Street Irregulars (New York), 69, 105*, Bates, David L., 143 215-6 Baudelaire, Charles, 45 will be interested in new Sherlock Holmes Bauer, Harry, 217 story, 18, 20 Bay, J. Christian, 206 first state dinner of, 24 Bayer, Robert John, 147, 168, 388 protest “ten best detective stories” list, 29 thumbnail biography, 381 Woollcott account of dinner, 35 Bazeries (Commandant), 55 “A Baker Street Four-Wheeler,” 46 Beatitudes, The, 256, 256* sonnet read at annual meeting, 52* Bed and Sometimes Breakfast (Philip Owens), secretary Edgar Smith, 54 281 486 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

Beecher, Henry Ward, 105-6 Blood in Their Ink (Sutherland Scott), 212 Beecroft, John, 292 Bonavia-Hunt, D. A., 145 Beeding, Francis, 29, 299 Bond, Raymond T., 55, 94, 96 thumbnail biography, 381 Book Collecting World (magazine), 315 Behind the Bar (A. E. Bowker), 149 Book Column (), 254 Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1887, 305*, 398, Book Hunter’s Holiday (A. S. Rosenbach), 53, 401-2 422 “Bel and the Dragon,” 115, 171 Book of Murder, The (Frederick Irving Bell, H.W. (Harold Wilmerding) Anderson), 30 judge on panel for Speckled Band contest, Bookman and the Hummingbird, The (J. 63 Christian Bay), 206 on board of advisers for new Baker Street Bookman’s Diary, A (J. A. Hammerton), 218 Journal, 66 bookplates, 319-20 opinion on true location of 221 Baker Boone, Daniel, 274 Street, 79, 170* Borden, Lizzie, 262, 343 death of, 100-101 thumbnail biography, 383-4 his collection of Sherlockiana left to The Born in a Bookshop (Vincent Starrett Speckled Band, 110 autobiography), 161*, 415-6 thumbnail biography, 381-2 Bostick, William A., 88 Bell, Joseph (Doctor), 98, 270, 316, 351 Boston (Massachusetts), 44, 59, 100 thumbnail biography, 382 Boswell, James, 60, 73, 87, 275-6, 301, 391, Bellamy Trial, The (Frances Noyes Hart), 28, 406 30 thumbnail biography, 384 Belloc, Hilaire, 211 Boucher, Anthony, 33, 38, 42, 59*, 128, 194, Belloc-Lowndes, Marie, 282 211, 292, 298, 326, 333, 398-9 Benchley, Jane, 292 thumbnail biography, 384 Benet, Stephen Vincent, 319 Bow Street runners, 128, 242 Bengis, Nathan, 128, 155, 172, 234 Bowker, A. E., 149 thumbnail biography, 382 Boys’ Sherlock Holmes, The, 280, 401 Bennett, Arnold, 318 Bracker, Jon, 286, 293, 326, 414 Benson, E. F., 198 Brackett, Charles, 23 Benson Murder Case (S. S. Van Dine), 28, 29, Bradley University (Peoria), 198 46, 431, 455 Bramah, Ernest, 30 Bentley, E. C., 29 thumbnail biography, 385 Beresford, Tommy and Tuppence (Agatha Bransford in Arcadia (Eugene Manlove Christie), 48 Rhodes), 318 Berkley, Anthony, 300 Brazelton, Julian, 320 Bertillon, Alphonse, 48*, 230 Breaking Point, The (Mary Roberts Rinehart), thumbnail biography, 382-3 135, 420 “Bertram” stories, 319 Brean, Herbert, 203 “Beryl Coronet,” see “Adventure of the Beryl thumbnail biography, 385 Coronet” Brend, Gavin, 177 Best Loved Books of the Twentieth Century thumbnail biography, 385 (Vincent Starrett), 220, 224, 253 Brett, Jeremy, 295* Best of the Pips, The, 225 Briggs, Gray C., 37, 79, 435, 438 Bierce, Ambrose, 278, 449 thumbnail biography, 385-6 thumbnail biography, 383 Bright Cages (Christopher Morley), 326 Big Bow Mystery, The (Israel Zangwill), 139 British Bouquet (Samuel Chamberlain), 309 Bigelow, S. Tupper, 89* Brown, Father (G. K. Chesterton), 30, 48, 136, Bishop Murder Case, The (S. S. Van Dine), 168, 252, 277, 299, 387 29, 30, 145, 145*, 362 Browne, Douglas, 233 “Black Peter,” see “Adventure of Black Peter” Browning, Robert, 36, 73*, 77*, 111, 347-9, Blake, Sexton, 58 379 Blau, Peter, 315*, 329* Bruce, Nigel, 294, 419 Blaustein, Phyllis and Albert, 243 thumbnail biography, 386 Blegen, Theodore C., 179, 205, 250 “Bruce-Partington Plans,” see “Adventure of thumbnail biography, 383 the Bruce-Partington Plans” Bleiler, Everett, 185 Brummel, Beau, 110 Blewett, George F., 120 Brunner, Francis A. (The Rev.), 304 “Blue Carbuncle,” see “Adventure of the Blue Buchan, John, 299 Carbuncle” Buckley, Jeremiah, 120, 237 Block, Eugene B., 328, 343 Bull, R. C., 274, 298 I N D E X 487

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, 72, 110 Castner, Carol Mills, 38 Bunyan, Paul, 239 Castner, Robert, 38 Burnett, Whit, 326 “Catalogue of 221B Culture, A” (Julian Burns, Robert, 217 Wolff), 159 Buried Alive (Arnold Bennett), 318 “Catástrofe de la Punta del Diablo, La” Buried Caesars (Vincent Starrett), 375-6 (Miguel de Fuenzalida), 71 Burton, Guthrie, 77 Cavalcade of Collier’s, A (Kenneth McArdle), Butcher, Fanny 262 column on VS tribute luncheon, 130-33 Caxton Club (Chicago), 130, 132, 133, 254 thumbnail biography, 386 Caxton, William, 217 Butler, Samuel, 276 Celmer, Ernest, 315 Butterworth, Amelia, 136 Cerf, Bennett, 31, 31* Buxton, E. Timothy-Howe, 267 thumbnail biography, 387 Bygone Woodbridge (V. B. Redstone), 112 Cervantes, Miguel de, 44, 274, See also Don Byron, George Gordon (Lord), 111, 217 Quixote Challenger, George Edward (Professor) C (Arthur Conan Doyle), 283, 323 Cabell, James Branch, 26, 253 Chamberlain, Samuel, 309 thumbnail biography, 386 Chan, Charlie (Earl Derr Biggers), 136 Calahan, H. A., 144 Chandler, Raymond, 189, 231, 299, 318, 439 Call Mr. Fortune (H. C. Bailey), 28, 30 thumbnail biography, 387 Camp, Walter, 262 “Charles Augustus Milverton,” see “Ad- Campbell, Maurice, 174 venture of Charles Augustus Milverton” Canada, 95*, 122, 199 Chateau de Lucens (Switzerland), 331, 340 Canadian Baskervilles, The (Sherlockian Chaucer, Geoffrey, 42, 115, 217 society), 412, 425 thumbnail biography, 387 Candlelight Press, 301, 325 chemistry, puzzle in NAVA, 129, 133-4 Candy Box Murders (in Baltimore), 314 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 138, 223, Canterbury Tales, The (Geoffrey Chaucer), 299, 336, 381, 418 303 thumbnail biography, 387-8 “Cardboard Box,” see “Adventure of the Chicago, VS must be crazy to stay in, 218-9 Cardboard Box” Chicago Daily News, 131, 374 Carlyle, Thomas, 276 China, detective stories in, 25, 166-7, 186, Carr, John Dickson, 31, 99, 193, 197, 203, 256-7, 306, 320, 391, 432 222*, 262, 298, 323 China, VS in, 132, 132* Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 227, 282, Chinese Bell M urders, The (Robert van 342 Gulik), 256, 432 list of best modern detective novels, 300 Chinese Orange Mystery, The (), thumbnail biography, 386-7 300 Carrados, Max (Ernest Bramah), 277, 385 Chopin, Frédéric, 184, 390 Carter, John, 337 Chris Cella’s restaurant (New York), 24* Carter, Nick, 58 Christ, Jay Finley (“Langdale Pike”) Carroll, Lewis, 74, 164, 182, 290 found Island of Uffa in the Hebrides, 60- “Case of Bishopsgate Jewels, A” (Baker 61, 64, 111 Street Pageboys), 339 lecture series on Sherlock Holmes, 69, 147 “Case of Identity, A” (Arthur Conan Doyle), asked whether 221 Baker Street faced east 353 or west, 79 Case of the Baker Street Irregulars, The pinch hitting for Charles Collins, 80 (Anthony Boucher), 33, 384 “Flashes by Fanlight,” 88 “Case of the Golden Blonde, The, or Sherlock “Irregular Chronology of Baker Street,” 94 Holmes versus Arsène Lupin,” 70 “An Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes “Case of the Lost Pants, The,” 85-6 of Baker Street,” 101, 106, 110 “Case of the Man Who Was W anted,” See mentioned in sonnet by Russell Mc- “Man Who Was Wanted” Lauchlin, 104 Casebook of Solar Pons, The (August “Gleanings by Gaslight,” 119 Derleth), 299, 325 thinks “The Man Who Was Wanted” is a Casey, Robert J., 130-31 forgery, 120 thumbnail biography, 387 contributed to “Second Case-Book” of Cask, The (Freeman Wills Crofts), 28, 30, 390 The Illustrious Clients, 128 Casket Letters (Mary Queen of Scots), 329 at tribute luncheon for VS, 131 Caspary, Vera, 265 translation of “Sherlock Holmes, Raffles, Castle of Otronto, The (Horace W alpole), 305 and Their Prototypes,” 159 488 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

solves puzzle of the misplaced sunbeams, Connolly, Terence L., 148 163-4 Conrad, Joseph, 251, 405 “The Missing Three,” 168 thumbnail biography, 389 later history of Violet Hunter from COPP, Consumer Price Index Calculator (inflation 170 calculator) from Federal Reserve Bank of monograph hurled at the head of, 190 Minneapolis, 53*, 57*, 315*, 345* “Sherlock Comes to America,” 205 Cook, James (Captain), 274 contributed to “Client’s Case-Book No. 3” Cooper, James Fenimore, 181 of The Illustrious Clients, 211 Cortez, Hernando, 274 Holmes should explain the prevailing Cosmopolitan (magazine), 118, 119 pestilence, 245 Costain, Thomas B., 292 “The Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,” Cox, J. Randolph, 272, 272* 263-4 thumbnail biography, 389-90 “Finch’s Final Fling,” 301 Crane, Stephen, 374, 375 abbreviations for Sherlock Holmes stories, Crime Lab: Science Turns Detective (David 371-2 Loth), 314 thumbnail biography, 388 Crispin, Edmund, 299 Christie, Agatha, 30, 48, 54, 265, 300, 325 “Critical History and Analysis of the “Christmas at the Admiral Benbow” (Henry Whodunit, A” (J.N. Williamson), 183, 434 Dierkes), 52 Crock of Gold, The (James Stephens), 253 Chronicles of Martin Hewett, The (Arthur Crofts, Freeman Wills, 30, 311 Morrison), 30 thumbnail biography, 390 chronologies of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Cromie, Robert, 311-12 94, 106, 178*, 207-8, 228 “Crowded Box-Room, The,” (Theodore C. Churchill, Winston, 22, 116, 137, 262, 336 Blegen), 179, 383 corresponded with Arthur Conan Doyle, “Crown Diamond, The” (Arthur Conan 342 Doyle), 98, 100 thumbnail biography, 388 cryptograms (alleged) in The Hound of the cipher stories, see codes and ciphers Baskervilles, 63, 64 Claflin, Jack Scott, 62, 64 Cuff, Sergeant (The Moonstone), 136 “Clarice” (), 176 Curran, John W., 109 Clark, William D., 81 Clendening, Logan D author of The Human Body, 25-7 “Daffydils” (Tad Dorgan), 117, 393 thumbnail biography, 388 Dahlinger, Susan, 209* Clients Case Book, The (The Illustrious Daly, Elizabeth, 299 Clients of Indianapolis), 106, 433 “Dancing Men,” see “Adventure of the Clients Case Book No. 3, The (The Illustrious Dancing Men” Clients of Indianapolis), 211, 433 Daniel, Book of, 48, 277, 306 Cloete, Stuart, 92 Dannay, Frederic (half of “Ellery Queen”), Clue (magazine), 112 417 Clues of the Caribees (T.S. Stribling), 318, thumbnail biography, 390 429 Dante Alighieri, 44, 424 Cock and Pynot Inn (Old Whittington, Dargan, Pat, 318 England), 303 D’Artagnan (Alexandre Dumas), 19, 144 codes and ciphers, 55, 94, 96, 258 Davis, Richard Harding, 262 College of the Pacific, 33 Davison, Armstrong, 329 Collier Mystery Classics, 298 Dawson Pedigree, The (Dorothy L. Sayers), Collier’s (magazine), 47, 217, 262, 309 136 Collins, Charles, 43, 76, 80, 88, 104, 122, de la Torre, Lillian, 87, 275, 391 301*, 437 thumbnail biography, 391 thumbnail biography, 389 “Dead Man’s Secret” (William Byron Collins, Howard, 22, 42, 213* Mowery), 298 Collins, Wilkie, 30, 53, 276, 291, 305 Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie), 300 thumbnail biography, 389 Death Walks in Eastrepps (Francis Beeding), Columbia University, 279, 380 29, 299, 381 Complete Sherlock Holmes, The (Arthur Decimus Saxon (), 283 Conan Doyle), 202, 207, 227, 267 Dedmon, Emmett, 130 Conan Doyle: A Biography (Pierre Nordon), Dee, Judge (Di Jen-djieh), See China, detec- 341 tive stories in Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (Hesketh thumbnail biography, 391 Pearson), 36 Defoe, Daniel, 198, 227, 274, 391 I N D E X 489

thumbnail biography, 391 Dickens, Dali, and Others (), Delights of Detection, The (Jacques Barzun), 82 279, 298, 380-1 Dickensheet, Dean W., 326 Dell, Bernard, 128 thumbnail biography, 392 De Mishele, Josephine, 230 Dikty, T. E., 185 Denmark, 320 Dierkes, Henry, 52 Depken, Friedrich, 159 Dilnot, George, 127 De Quincey, Thomas, 260 Dior, Christian, 207 Derleth, August “Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The” protests Rex Stout’s list of 10 best detec- (Arthur Conan Doyle), 353 tive stories, 29, Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 44 invention of Solar Pons, 65-6 Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector (Lillian de la two volumes of Solar Pons available, 175 Torre), 87, 275, 391 “Three Problems for Solar Pons,” 199, 205 Dr. Watson and Rudyard Kipling (O. F. contributed to “Client’s Case-Book, No. Grazebrook), 159 3,” 211 Doctor’s Choice (Phyllis and Albert Blau- The Return of Solar Pons, 255 stein), 243 The Casebook of Solar Pons, 299, 325 Documents in the Case, The (Dorothy Sayers The Cask on his top ten list, 390 and Robert Eustace), 28, 30 thumbnail biography, 391-2 Don Juan, 259, 260 picked M elville Davisson Post as one of Don Quixote, 259, 266 greatest detective writers, 417 Donegall, Marquis of, 331 Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson, The (Lillian “Doomdorf Mystery, The” (Melville Davisson de la Torre), 275-6, 391 Post), 136 Detroit (Michigan), 69, 88, See also Amateur Dorgan, T. A. (Tad), 34*, 117, 327 Mendicant Society thumbnail biography, 392-3 Detective Short Story: A Bibliography (Ellery Down Memory Lane (Billy Lopper), 341 Queen), 20 Doyle, Adrian Conan, 70, 98, 99, 120, 193, detective story, 57-8, 82-4, 115, 188-9, 192, 203, 227, 262, 317, 331, 345, 386, 212, 292, 318 393, 416 VS essay on, 137-143 discovered unpublished Sherlock Holmes Devil in the Belfry, The (Russell Thorndike), story, 17 30 “The True Conan Doyle,” 70, 98, 393 Devonshire, and retirement of Sherlock thumbnail biography, 393 Holmes, 173 Doyle, Arthur Conan (Sir), 64, 208, 393, 403 De Voto, Bernard, 44 new unpublished Sherlock Holmes story, DeWaal, Ronald, 55*, 60*, 101* 17, 20, 118 Di Jen-djieh, See China, detective story in wrote “The Blue Carbuncle,” 21 Dickens, Charles wrote , 30 The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 19, 136, lost manuscript of novel, 31 382, 392 reveals original of Professor , 36- A Christmas Carol manuscript at Pierpont 7 Morgan Library, 75 crime library of, 52-3 house in Marylebone, 111 letter from , 65 James Payn knew, 114 conversation with VS, 68 BLUE a finer story than “Christmas deplorable discovery in his papers, 70 Carol,” thinks Morley, 123 prescribed pills for friends, 75 Bow Street runners celebrated by, 128 , 92 Dombey and Son, 144 hoard of unpublished manuscripts, 98 in Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, 217 Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1887, 151 on high school reading list, 249, 250 finished book for Grant Allen, 158, 288, easy to read, can’t be literature, 263 377 Pickwick Papers, 19, 26, 41, 71, 144, 177, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 160-1 211, 223*, 266, 276, 392 naming Sherlock Holmes, 197-8 memorable claque of landladies, 281 “autographed” Complete Sherlock Holmes wishes Christmas would last the whole in 1952, twenty-two years after his year through, 283 death, 202 Studio Books, 336 centenary of his birth, 257, 261 Wilkie Collins a friend of, 389 Houdini and, 259 thumbnail biography, 392 in Collier’s magazine, 262 Charles Dickens Encyclopedia, 400 Great Stories, 262 new biography by Pearson, 36, 282 490 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

never really liked Sherlock Holmes, 68, Exploits of , The (Arthur 137, 257, 342, 296, 323 Conan Doyle), 257 bibliography, 263-4 Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, 386, 393 Strange Studies from Life, 301 Exploring Sherlock Holmes (The Norwegian rescued McClure’s Magazine, 306 Explorers), 250, 383, 412 “The Man Who Was Sherlock Holm es,” 315-6 F Christopher Isherwood professes admir- Fable, Fact, and History (Willis Thornton), ation for, 335 238 Nordon biography of, 341-2 Fabulous Originals, The (Irving Wallace), 227 thumbnail biography, 393 Fabulous Voyager (Richard M. Kain), 93 Drake, Drexel, 233 Falstaff, John (Sir) (William Shakespeare), Dublin’s Joyce (Hugh Kenner), 232 211, 281, 335 duBois, William Pene, 323 Famous Chinese Short Stories (Lin Yutang), Dumas, Alexander, 263 186 Dupin, C. Auguste (Edgar Allan Poe), 57, “Favorite Classics” (VS), 160-63 115, 277, 278, 417 Famous Detectives: True Stories of True Dwelly Lane (Frank Morley), 188 Crime Detection (Eugene B. Block), 343 “Dying Detective,” see “Adventure of the Famous Stories of Code and Cipher Dying Detective” (Raymond Bond), 94, 96 Dynamiter, The (Robert Louis Stevenson), Famous Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur 133, 342 Conan Doyle), 252 Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler), E 299 East Anglia, 96, 111 Father Owned a Circus (Sherlock Holmes Edalji, George, 316, 342 Evans), 194 thumbnail biography, 393-4 Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), 259 Edgeworth, Maria, 72 Fawcett, Robert, 119 Edogawa Rampo, 120 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 284, Edwards, Alberto (Miguel de Fuenzalida), 70- 314 71 “Fedora” (Umberto Giordano), 171 Eight Cousins (Louisa May Alcott), 256 Feldman, Lew David, 264, 315* Eighth Sin, The (Christopher Morley), 286 thumbnail biography, 395 Eisenschiml, Otto, 103, 129, 133-4, 237 Fer de Lance (Rex Stout), 29 thumbnail biography, 394 Festival of Britain (1951), 169, 173-4, 184, Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 162*, 231, 236, 249, 398 326, 402 fiction writers, in need of elementary text- thumbnail biography, 394-5 book, 119 Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 57, 292, Fielding, Henry, 242 300, 332, 390, 391, 395, 400, 411, 417 Fifteen Clews (Eugene B. Block), 328 Ellin, Stanley, 298 “Final Problem, The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), Ellis, Edward F., 291 354 Emperor’s Pearl, The (Robert van Gulik), 320 Fingal’s Cave, 61 “Empty House,” see “Adventure of the Empty Finch, J.A. (pen name of Jay Finley Christ), House” 87 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 56, 81, 113, 146, Finch’s Final Fling (Jay Finley Christ), 301, 179*, 245, 304, 467 388 Energies of Art, The (Jacques Barzun), 236, “First Citizen of Baker Street, The” (Jack M. 250, 380 Siegel), 102 Entirely Surrounded (Charles Brackett), 23, Fish, Robert L., 332-3 435 thumbnail biography, 395 Entwhistle, Edward, 277 Fishpole Fraternity, 239 Episode of the Wandering Knife (Mary FitzGerald, Edward, 155, 155* Roberts Rinehart), 167, 420 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 262 Epstean’s law, 235 “Five Orange Pips, The” (Arthur Conan Essays in Satire (Ronald Knox), 245 Doyle), 60, 354 Evans, Luther, 74 Five Orange Pips (Sherlockian society), 225 Evans, Sherlock Holmes, 194 “Flashes by Fanlight” (Jay Finley Christ), 88 “Ex Bibliotheca Holmesiana” (Tage la Cour), Flint, Margaret A., 341 174 football, 33 Exhumations (Christopher Isherwood), 335-6, Ford, Donald and Derek, 331 364-5, 405 Ford, Ernest, 269 I N D E X 491

Fortune, Reginald (Doctor), 277 Gleason, James P., 94, 145 Foster, John, wrote biography of Dickens, 19, Glenn, John H. (Colonel), 293, 471 276 “Gloria Scott, The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 96 Fourteen Great Detective Stories, 40, 40* Goddard, Henry, 242 Fox, Harry G., 307 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 44 “Fragments” (Jay Finley Christ), 94 “Gold Bug, The” (Edgar Allan Poe), 55, 94, Franchise Affair, The (Josephine Tey), 299, 96 430 “Golden Pince-Nez,” see “Adventure of the Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), 305, Golden Pince-Nez” Freeman, R. Austin, 29, 298, 299, 318 Goldini’s restaurant, 309 thumbnail biography, 395-6 Gonzales, Thomas A., 193 French Academy (Académie Française), 113, Good Men and True (Eugene Manlove 146 Rhodes), 318 French, Joseph (Inspector) (Freeman Wills Goodwin, Polly, 251, 310 Crofts), 311, 390 thumbnail biography, 397 Friends of the Chicago Public Library, 130, Grais, I. Martin, 299 133, 412 “Grandest Game in the W orld, The” (John Friesland, S. S. (ship), 172, 172*, 368-9 Dickson Carr), 300 Frisbee, Albert, 91 Gray, Thomas, 186* From Inside Scotland Yard (Sir Harold Scott), Grazebrook, O. F., 159, 211 324 thumbnail biography, 397 Fu Manchu, 199* Great Books course, 179 Fuenzalida, Miguel de (Alberto Edwards), 70 “Great Detective, The” (ballet), 207, 210 Futrelle, Jacques, 318 Great “Detectives,” The (Theodore Mathie- thumbnail biography, 396 son), 274-5 Furneaux, Rupert, 340 Great Ghost Stories, 274 Great North Road, The (R. L .Stevenson), 19 G Great Stories (Arthur Conan Doyle), 262 Gaboriau, Émile, 30 Great Stories of Detection (R. C. Bull), 274, thumbnail biography, 396 298 Gainsborough, Thomas, 36, 36*, 435 Great Tales of Mystery, 274, 380 Galdone, Paul, 251, 310*, 311 “Greek Interpreter, The” (Arthur Conan Galsworthy, John, 251 Doyle), 49, 49* Gardiner, Dorothy, 233 Greek Interpreters, The (Sherlockian society Gardner, Erle Stanley, 192, 271 in Michigan), 59 thumbnail biography, 396 Green, Harry G., 48 Garnett, David, 318 Greene, Graham, 265, 318 Gettler, Alexander, 193 thumbnail biography, 397 Gerard, Étienne (Brigadier) (Arthur Conan Greene Murder Case, The (S. S. Van Dine), Doyle), 263, 283 29, 30, 300 ghost stories, 274, 318-9 Greenwood, Edwin, 31 Gilbert and Sullivan, 269, 359-60 Gresham, William Lindsay, 259, 404 Gilchrist, Andrew (Sir), 294 Gribble, Leonard, 307 Gilka, Isador, original of swindler in STOC, Grisner, Raymond L.,70 342 Grolier Club, 302 Gillespie, Charles A., 75 Grosset’s Universal Library, 277 Gillette, William, 24*, 77-8, 78*, 195, 295, Gudme, Iver, 174 396-7, 402, 428 Guedalla, Philip, 250, 264 basis for drawings of thumbnail biography, 398 Sherlock Holmes, 47, 397 Guerard, Albert Leon (?), 82 “The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Gullander, Simon, 206 Holmes,” 176, 228 Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift), 44 new production of his play “Sherlock Gunn, R. Ivar, 174 Holmes,” 187, 188 thumbnail biography, 398 Sherlock Holmes should look like Gillette, Guymon, E. T. Jr. (Ned), 305 190, 308 thumbnail biography, 398 centenary celebrated, 208 meets VS, 448 H thumbnail biography, 396-7 Hahn, Robert W., 187, 451 Gillette Memorial Luncheon, 377-8, 397 thumbnail biography, 398 “Gleanings by Gaslight” (Jay Finley Christ), Hailey, Eustace, 277 119 492 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

Hall, W.S. (William Stanley), 66 Holmes, Sherlock thumbnail biography, 399 new unpublished story found, 17 “Hamlet” (William Shakespeare), 26, 81, 170, monograph by Clendening, 26 177, 259 omitted from “10 Best” list, 28, 30 Hammerton, J.A., 218 suggested for Illustrated Modern Library, Hammett, Dashiell, 30, 141, 189, 268*, 387 31 thumbnail biography, 399 pastiches by H. F. Heard, 31-2 Hansen, Harry, 131, 240*, 373 Limited Editions Club, 36, 47, 164, 193, hansom cabs, 24, 34, 91, 114, 155, 294*, 320, 194, 427 333, 413 three new books about, 35, 41 Hardwick, Michael and Mollie, 301, 315 solves cryptograms, 44 thumbnail biographies, 399-400 barred from Russia, 44 Hardy, Thomas, 44, 217, 405 description of in , 45, Harper’s Modern Classics edition of Sherlock 308 Holmes, 172 George Orwell on, 82 Harrison, Michael, 267, 325 American omnibus hopelessly corrupt, 90 thumbnail biography, 400 first citizen of England, 116 Harrison, Richard, 127 namesake in Nova Scotia, 122 Hart, Frances Noyes, 30 survived his own death, 136 Harte, Bret, 42, 182 multiple disguises, 136 Harte, Walter Blackburn, 376 quiz on, 156-7, 283-4 Hastings, MacDonald, 137 hypothetical relatives of, 157 Hatch, Talbot C., 57 Festival of Britain 1951, 169, 173-4, 184, Hatfield, James Taft, 38, 39* 249, 398 thumbnail biography, 400-401 will of, 172-3 Haverford College, 162*, 413 retired to Devonshire, 173 Hawkes, A. B. C. (Professor) (Carl E. B. library of, 174, 428 Roberts), 277 fitting wives for, 177 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 115 where his name came from, 197-8 Haycraft, Howard, 57, 140, 277, 280, 298, 423 supposed to look like William Gillette, thumbnail biography, 401 190 Haywood, Ralph, 268-9, 272 birthday same as Carl Sandburg, 206, 423 Hecht, Ben, 373, 374, 456 100th birthday, 215 Hedgepath, Joel W., 38, 326 should be in Madame Tussaud’s, 217 Heard, H. F., 31 declined a knighthood, 251 thumbnail biography, 401 possibly an American, 267 Hench, Philip S., 237, 315* in Omnibus of Crime, 277 thumbnail biography, 401-2 Baring-Gould biography of, 289-90 Henriksen, A. D. (Agner Damgaard), 159, 174 bookplates, 319-20 thumbnail biography, 402 violin playing, 321-2 Henry, O. (pseudonym of William Sidney appreciation by Christopher Isherwood, Porter), 19, 42, 54, 273 335-6 thumbnail biography, 402-3 “Hombre M isterioso de la Calle de Santa “Henry IV” (William Shakespeare), 26 Rosa, El” (Miguel de Fuenzalida), 71 Heritage Press, 193, 246 Homer, 183 Herzog, Evelyn, 109* Honce, Charles, 62, 66, 205, 415 Hilda Wade: A Woman with Tenacity of thumbnail biography, 403-4 Purpose (Grant Allen and Arthur Conan Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 108* Doyle), 158, 288, 377 Hornung, E.W., 41, 204, 262, 379 Hill, Alfred E., Arthur F., and W. Henry, 321 thumbnail biography, 404 Hill, Pope R., Sr., 190 Houdini, Harry, 259 thumbnail biography, 403 thumbnail biography, 404 Hill, Walter, 206 Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Hilton, James, 299 Walls (William Lindsay Gresham), 259, (Arthur Conan Doyle), 87, 90, 404 351, 353, 450 Houghton, Claude, 318 Hitler, Adolf, 214, 405 Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Arthur Conan Holmes and Watson: A Miscellany (S. C. Doyle), 22*, 63, 64, 103, 107-9, 126, Roberts), 215, 421 145, 159, 171, 199, 253, 280, 300, 354 Holmes, Edward Z., 171 two pages of manuscript for sale, 315, 402 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 110 I N D E X 493

Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), The (Chicago Graham Pollard), 337 Sherlockian society), 59, 60, 86, 147, 159, Ironing Board, The (Christopher Morley), 157 168*, 220-23, 266, 288, 294, 326, 327, “Irregular Chronology of Baker Street” (Jay 388, 389, 395, 410, 415, 436 Finley Christ), 94 House of the Arrow, The (A. E. W. Mason), “Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes of Baker 300 Street, An” (Jay Finley Christ), 101, 106, Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 43 388 How the Old Woman Got Home (M. P. Shiel), Isaacs, Alexander J., 208 30 Isherwood, Christopher, 335, 364-5 How to Be a Private Detective (Edward Z. thumbnail biography, 405 Holmes), 171 Howe, Ronald (Sir), 334 J Howlett, Anthony, 331 Jack the Giant Killer, 83 thumbnail biography, 404-5 Jack the Ripper, 282, 290, 331, 400, 439 Hudler, Berenice Stewart, 215 Jackson, Joseph Henry, 59*, 119, 384 Hudson, Mrs., landlady of Sherlock Holmes, thumbnail biography, 405-6 282, 288 Jacobs, W. W., 278, 282* Hue and Cry (Patrick Pringle), 242 thumbnail biography, 406 Hughes, Richard, 120 James, Henry, 227, 236, 256 Hugo, Victor, 217, 432 James, Montague Rhodes, 356 Hugo’s Companions (Chicago Sherlockian “Jane Annie, or, The Good Conduct Prize” society), 159, 226, 266, 294, 327, 398 (James Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle), Hull, Richard, 30 269, 380 “Hullabaloo” (Larry Yust), 56 Japan, 102, 120-21 Human Body, The (Logan Clendening), 26-7 John O’London’s Weekly (magazine), 137, Hums, Sheerluck (Larry Yust), 55-6 176 Hundred Best Books, list to be shunned, 22 Johnson, Harry (Sir), 144 Johnson, Pyke Jr., 202 I Johnson, Samuel (Doctor), 87, 93, 275-6, 391, I Am Jonathan Scrivener (Claude Houghton), 420 318 thumbnail biography, 406 Iles, Francis, 30-31, 265 Jones, H. E., 280*, 281 Illinois State Historical Library, 341 Jones, Philip K., 310*, 331*, 359, 368 Illustrated Modern Library (Random House), Jonson, Ben, 287 31 Jourdain, E. F., 319 “Illustrious Client,” see “Adventure of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (James Illustrious Client” Boswell), 61, 384 Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis (Sher- Journeying Boy, The (M ichael Innes), 299, lockian society), 106, 128, 156, 433-4 405 Imagination Unlimited (Bleiler and Dikty), Joyce, James, 44, 232 185 In and Out of Character (), K 295, 419 Kain, Richard M., 93 In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kaltenborn, H. V., 113 Harrison), 267, 400 Kaye-Smith, Sheila, 232 In the Queen’s Parlor (Ellery Queen), 243, Kaywoodie Pipe Company, 193 250, 390 Keats, John, 104, 327 Incredible Schlock Homes, The (Robert L. Keddie, James Sr., 42, 42* Fish), 332-3, 395 thumbnail biography, 406 Incunabular Sherlock Holmes, The (Edgar W. Keddie, James Jr., 63, 91, 93, 110, 208 Smith), 252 thumbnail biography, 406 Indiana University, 299 Keeler, Leonarde, 81 Inflation Calculator, see Consumer Price Kenner, Hugh, 232 Index Calculator Kennison, David, 240 Innes, Michael (pseudonym of John Innes Keokuk (Iowa), birthplace of Charles Honce, Mackintosh Stewart), 30, 265, 298, 205, 403 299 Ker, W. P., 261 thumbnail biography, 405 thumbnail biography, 406 Innocence of Father Brown, The (G. K. Khayyam, Omar, 274 Chesterton), 28, 448 King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Inquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth- Windsor, A, 171 Century Pamphlets, An (John Carter and King Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory), 44 494 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

Kingsmill, Hugh, 54 Lin Yutang, 186, 320 Kipling, Rudyard, 19, 137, 149, 159, 211, thumbnail biography, 409-10 217, 263, 403, 405 Lincoln Herald, 143 corresponded with Arthur Conan Doyle, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office (David L. 342 Bates), 143 thumbnail biography, 407 Linn, Helen, 27 Klawans, H. L., 199 Literary Distractions (Ronald Knox), 252 Klinefelter, Walter, 291, 308 Literary Criticisms by Francis Thompson, thumbnail biography, 407 Newly Discovered, 148, 370 Klinger, Leslie S., 55*, 89* Literature of Crime, The (Ellery Queen), 167 Knox, E. V., 107, 270 Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story (Edward Knox, Ronald, 54, 223*, 245, 252, 266, 448 Radin), 280 “10 commandments” of the detective “Lonely Hansom, The” (Baker Street story, 363, 407, 457 Pageboys), 339 thumbnail biography, 407-8 London (England), 239, 336, 367, see also Baker Street L London, Jack, 44 la Cour, Tage, 174, 207 London Star, announced unpublished thumbnail biography, 408 Sherlock Holmes story, 17-8 Lady into Fox (David Garnett), 318 Long, Long Ago (), 34-5, Lament for a Maker (Michael Innes), 28, 30 435 Lamp of God, The (Ellery Queen), 300 Longfellow, Esther, 49*, 50, 116 Lardner, Ring, 262 thumbnail biography, 410 Last Bookman, The (Peter Ruber tribute Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 38, 401 volume to VS), 319*, 378-9, 386, 392, Lopper, Billy (Captain), 341 410, 412, 418, 422 Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad), 253, 389 Lauritzen, Henry, 325 Loring, Nigel (Sir), 283 thumbnail biography, 408 “Lost Special, The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), Lavender, Jimmie (VS), 32* 262, 323 Lawson, Douglas, 267 Lost Woods, The (Edwin Way Teale), 69 Leacock, Stephen, 54, 149 Lost World, The (Arthur Conan Doyle), 172, thumbnail biography, 408-9 257, 448 League of Frightened Men, The (Rex Stout), Loth, David, 314 29, 30, 300 Lovell, Dolores, 192 Leavitt, Robert Keith, 42 Lucas, James C., 90 thumbnail biography, 409 Luke, Gospel of, 54 Leblanc, Maurice, 32, 70 Lupin, Arsène, 32, 70 thumbnail biography, 409 Lynde, H. H., 244 Lee, M anfred B. (half of “Ellery Queen”), 417 Lyon, Peter, 306 Leiber, Fritz, 311, 326, 409 thumbnail biography, 409 M Lellenberg, Jon, 17*, 35*, 59*, 127*, 164*, Macaulay, Thomas Babington (Lord), 217, 191*, 379, 386, 403, 412, 414, 415, 427, 420 428, 435-6 “Macbeth” (William Shakespeare), 81 Leonard, William, 168, 331 MacDonald, Philip, 70, 265, 300, 410 Leonardo da Vinci, 274 thumbnail biography, 410 Leroux, Gaston, 29, 300, 409 Macfall, Haldane, 376 Lewis, James Hamilton (Senator), 132 Machen, Arthur, 123*, 218, 278, 318, 375 Lewis, Oscar, 38 thumbnail biography, 410 libraries, imaginary, 159 MacOrlan, Pierre, 201 Liebow, Ely, 77*, 389 Macpherson, James, 61* Life (magazine), 203 Macy, George, 193 “Life and Times of M r. Sherlock Holmes, Makino, Count, 121 The” (lecture series by Jay Finley Christ), Malone, John J., 135 69 Maltese Falcon, The (Dashiell Hammett), 28, Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The (John 46 Dickson Carr), 227, 342, 386 Man in the Queue, The (Josephine Tey), 430 “Likeness, A” (Robert Browning), 36, 347-9 Man of Promise, The, 136 Lilly Library (Indiana University), 75*, 299, “M an Who Came to Dinner, The” (George 302, 418 Kaufman and Moss Hart), 23, 435 Limited Editions Club, 36, 47, 164, 193, 194, Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, The (Mic- 427 hael and Mollie Hardwick), 315, 400 I N D E X 495

Man Who Was Thursday, The (G. K. Ches- Meiringen (Switzerland), 237 terton), 299 Meiser, Edith, 419 “Man Who Was Wanted, The” (supposed 61st Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (Henry Sherlock Holmes story), 20, 99, 118-120, Goddard), 242 124-7, 156, 345-6 “Memorabilia” (Robert Browning), 349 “Man With the Twisted Lip, The” (Arthur Memories and Adventures (Arthur Conan Conan Doyle), 352 Doyle), 68*, 92*, 98, 99, 153*, 197, 306*, Man With Three Eyes, The (Basil C. de 380, 393, 416 Guerin), 152 Menander, 176 Mangler, Robert J., 266, 272, 293, 294, 410- Mencken, H. L., 450, 452 11, 457 Mermaid Tavern, 239, 239*, 287 thumbnail biography, 410-11 Merriman, Charles, 303* Manhattan Savings Bank, 27 Metamorphoses of Don Juan, The (Leo “Manual of Signals, A” (Albert J. Myer), 259 Weinstein), 259 maps, 205, 280, 434 Michell, Humfrey, 46, 95 Marengo (Illinois), 187, 187*, 188 thumbnail biography, 412-3 Marie Antoinette (Queen), 319 Michigan State University, 59 Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson), 274 Milton, John, 217 Marquand, J. P., 262 Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Marsh, Edith Ngaio (Dame), 233, 299 (Ellery Queen), 35, 42, 48, 380 thumbnail biography, 411 “Missing Three, The” (Jay Finley Christ), 168 Martyrdom of Man, The (W inwood Reade), “Mississippi” (J. Christian Bay), 206 338 Mrs. Christopher (Elizabeth Myers), 318 Marvin, Charles, story the basis of NAVA, Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe (Nathaniel 342 Hawthorne), 115 Marx, Karl, 290 Modern Library, 40, 74 Mary Queen of Scots, 329 Monroe, Marilyn, 293 Masefield, John, 251 Moberly, C. A. E., 318 Mason, A. E. W., 300 “Monsieur Dupin” (Poe detective stories), 29, Mason, Perry (Erle Stanley Gardner), 396 30 Massee, Burt, 239 Monsieur Lecoq (Émile Gaboriau), 30 Mathieson, Theodore, 274-5 Montes, Lola, original of , 342 Maugham, W. Somerset, 228 Montgomery, James, 168, 183, 199, 205, 225 thumbnail biography, 411 thumbnail biography, 413 Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 252 moon, phases of, 119 Maurois, André, 113 Moonstone, The (Wilkie Collins), 28, 30, 53, “Mavis” (VS), 178* 276, 291, 305, 389 Max Carrados (Ernest Bramah), 30 Moran, Sebastian (Colonel), 100, 121 “Mazarin Stone, The,” see “Adventure of the More, Thomas (Saint), 185 Mazarin Stone” Moriarty in the Stacks: The Nefarious McArdle, Kenneth, 262 Adventures of Thomas J. Wise (Katherine McCabe, John III, 150 Greenleaf Pedley), 337 McClure, S. S., 305-6 Moriarty, James (?) (Professor), 25, 36-7, 100, McClure’s Magazine, 305-6, 402, 417, 442, 121, 136, 159, 183, 210, 217, 220, 228, 444, 447 316*, 365, 386, 344, 435 McClurg bookshop (Wabash Avenue), 315 Morley, Christopher, 21*, 110, 214, 399, 401, McDade, Beatrice, 284 407, 413-4, 423, 433 McDade, Thomas M., 284 head of the Baker Street Irregulars, 18, thumbnail biography, 411 216, 287, 413 McDiarmid, E. W., 180*, 205, 237, 250 December 1934 BSI dinner, 24* thumbnail biography, 411-2 book Sherlock Holmes and Doctor McGregor, James, 244 Watson, 35, 41, 211 McLauchlin, Russell, 69, 88, 103, 120, 131, “Valentine for Irene Adler,” 39 150 thinks Humfrey Michell does not know thumbnail biography, 412 how to spell his own name, 47 McPharlin, Paul, 123 on board of judges for EQMM contest, 57 Medical Murderer, The (Rupert Furneaux), will be on advisory board for new Baker 340 Street Journal, 66 Meeker, Arthur Jr., 198 wrote verses for innkeeper, 73 Meine, Franklin J., 130, 198, 340, 341 claimed Sherlock Holmes an American, thumbnail biography, 412 105, 105*, 267, 267* Meine, Fred, 198 island of Uffa, 111-12 496 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

coined the term “kinsprit,” 122 Myer, Albert J., 259 introduction to BSI publication “The Blue Myers, Elizabeth, 318 Carbuncle,” 123, 273 Mysterious Affair at Styles, The (Agatha tribute to VS, 132 Christie), 46, 452 ballade by, 154 Mysterious Mickey Finn, The (Elliot Paul), Sherlockian quiz, 156-7, 283-4 299 honored by Sherlock Holmes Society of Mystery Fiction: Theory and Technique London, 174 (Marie F. Rodell), 32, 421 Canon should be read to daughter, 178 Mystery of the Yellow Room, The (Gaston monograph hurled at head of, 190 Leroux), 29, 300, 409 introduction to Limited Editions, 194 Mystery of 31, New Inn (R. Austin Freeman), introduction to the Doubleday Canon, 202, 29, 299 267 Mystery Writers of America delighted Ben Abramson returned to Old “Edgar” awards, 185, 386-7, 390, 395, Loopy, 209-10 417, 430 Hound of the Baskervilles the masterpiece, pipe presented to, 193 221 Festival of Mysteries (later known as frequented Argus Book Shop, 228 Bouchercon), 261 VS essay on the death of, 239-41 seeking stuffed raven, 303 proclaimed January 6 to be the birthday of Harry Fox speech to, 307 Sherlock Holmes, 248 Herbert Brean president, 385 BLUE a Christmas story “without slush,” “Grand Master” award, 396, 411, 427, 470 273 Marie Rodell founding secretary, 421 exhibit of manuscripts and first editions, founding of, 464 286 VS honorary president, 471 Jon Bracker working on biography of, 286, 293, 326, 414 N manuscripts at University of Texas, 293 Naae, Viggo, 174 “3 Poems,” 338 “Name to Conjure With, A” (G. B. Stern), thumbnail biography, 413-4 211-12, 428 death of, 469 names, 211-12 Morley, Felix, 111*, 162*, 413 “Napoleon of Crime, The” (Edgar W. Smith), Morley, Frank, 188, 394, 420 210 Mormons, 342 Narrative of John Smith, The (Arthur Conan Morrison, Arthur, 30, 274, 415 Doyle), 31* thumbnail biography, 414 Nathan, George Jean, 122 Morrow, W. C., 375 “Naval Treaty, The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), Mostly Murder (Sir Sydney Smith), 270-1 328, 342 Moving Toyshop, The (Edmund Crispin), 299 New Arabian Nights (R. L. Stevenson), 336 Mowery, William Byron, 298 New Guest-Room Book (F. J. Sheed), 246 Mulvaney, Terence (Rudyard Kipling), 19, New Yorker, The (magazine), 174 19* Newberry Library, 184, 288, 415, 441 Murder at School (James Hilton), 299 Newton, A. Edward, 305 Murder Gone Mad (Philip MacDonald), 300 Newton, Isaac (Sir), 43, 43* Murder is An Art (Michael Innes), 265, 405 Newman, Ralph, 103 murder, myths about, 307-8 Nieminski, John, 386, 389 Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (Agatha Nigger of the Narcissus, The (Joseph Conrad), Christie), 28, 30 253, 389 Murder of My Aunt (Richard Hull), 30 Night at the Vulcan (Ngaio Marsh), 299, 411 “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The” (Edgar Nightingale, Florence, 274 Allan Poe), 25, 57, 115, 138, 417 Nine Tailors, The (Dorothy Sayers), 30, 136, Murders in Volume 2 (Elizabeth Daly), 299 300 Murphy, Peggy Hambleton, 198 Northwestern University, 206, 293, 312, 400, Murphy, Walter F., 272 416 Murray Hill Hotel, 340 Nordon, Pierre, 341 Musgrave Ritualists, The (Sherlockian Norman-Neruda, Wilhelmine, 321 society), 172, 395 Norton, Godfrey, 27, 34* My Dear Holmes (Gavin Brend), 177, 385 Norwegian Explorers, The (Sherlockian “My Friend the Murderer” (Arthur Conan society in Twin Cities), 179, 205, 237, Doyle), 152 305*, 383, 402, 411-12 Mycroft & Moran (publishing house), 65, 199, “Norwood Builder,” see “Adventure of the 255, 325, 391 Norwood Builder” I N D E X 497

O Paul, Elliot, 299 Occidental College, 305, 398, Payn, James, 114 Odyssey, The (Homer), 183 thumbnail biography, 416 “Oedipus,” 81 Pearce, Philippa, 324 Of Human Bondage (Somerset M augham), Pearson, Edmund, 252 253, 411 Pearson, Hesketh, 17, 36, 70, 120, 282, 345, Officer, Harvey, 38 thumbnail biography, 416-7 thumbnail biography, 414-5 Peck, Ephraim Peabody (Judge) (August Offord, Lenore Glen, 326 Derleth), 29 thumbnail biography, 415 Pedley, Katherine Greenleaf, 337 O’Hara, Frank Hurburt, 130 Peel, Robert (Sir), 128 Old Man in the Corner, The (Baroness Pemberley Shades (D. A. Bonavia-Hunt), 145 Orczy), 136, 278, 318 Pendennis (William M. Thackeray), 143 Old Soldiers of Baker Street (Sherlockian Persian slipper, 36, 52* scion), 288, 418 Peter, Saint, 185, 356-8 Olson, Glending, 249-50 Phelps, William Lyon, 319 Olson, K. F., 67 Physiologie du Mariage, La (Honoré de Omnibus of Crime (Dorothy L. Sayers), 277- Balzac), 55 8, 298 Pickwick (Charles Dickens), 19, 26, 41, 71, 100 Books Famous in English Literature 144, 177, 211, 223*, 266, 276, 392 (Grolier Club), 302 Pictorial History of Crime (Julian Symons), 101 Years Entertainment (Ellery Queen), 298 338, 429 Opdycke, John Baker, 172 Pierpont Morgan Library, 75, 422 opera, 171 Pike, Langdale (pen name of Jay Finley Orczy, Emmuska (Baroness), 318 Christ), see Christ, Jay Finley thumbnail biography, 415 Pinkerton, Allen, detective agency, 36*, 48*, “Original of Sherlock Holmes, The” (H. E. 194, 354, 399, 444 Jones), 280* pipes, 192, 309, 397, 421 Orwell, George, 82 Pitt, William, 72 Owen, Frank, 298 Pocket Books, 26, 28 Owens, Harry J., 132 Pocket Mystery Reader, The, 39, 435 Owens, Philip, 281 Poe, Edgar Allan, 29, 30, 148, 182, 258, 261, Oxford Blue Book, 54, 407 305, 340, 370 Oxford University, 405, 407, 413 scholars would turn handsprings, 19 Oxford World’s Classics, 179 inspired by Vidocq, 25, 432 “Monsieur Dupin” omitted from list, 29 P “The Gold Bug,” 55 Paganini, Niccolò, 321 invented the detective story, 115, 278 Paget, Sidney, 90, 123, 190, 302, 308, 397, thumbnail biography, 417 414 Poggioli, Henry (Professor) (T. S. Stribling), thumbnail biography, 415 136, 318, 439 Pagram, Edward, 274 Poirot, Hercule (Agatha Christie), 46, 318 Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, , The (Arthur Conan Doyle), 257, (William Gillette), 176, 228 323 Palmer House, 147, 199, 229, 272 Poisoned Chocolates Case, The (Anthony Palmer, Stephen G. III, 205 Berkley), 300 Pamphlet House, 38, 46, 54, 62*, 72*, 101, poisons unknown to science, should be 210, 415, 426 outlawed as detective story device, 139 Pannell, Lucile, 130 pokers, 143-4 Panter-Downes, Mollie, 174 Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Pao Kung, see China, detective stories in Cormorant, 18 Pargellis, Stanley, 60, 183, 191, 288, 467 Pollard, Graham, 337 thumbnail biography, 415-6 Pons, Solar (August Derleth), 65-6, 175, 299, Park, Orlando, 293, 296, 297, 302, 312 391-2 thumbnail biography, 416 Porges, Arthur, 172 parodists’ names for Sherlock Holmes, 54-5, Post, Melville Davisson, 30, 94 332 thumbnail biography, 417 Parrott, Lindesay, 120 Pound, Reginald, 137 Partners in Crime (Agatha Christie), 48 Price, Lawrence Marsden (Professor), 38 Partridge, Frances, 341 Price, Mary Bell, 38 Pattrick, Robert R., 326 Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), 145 thumbnail biography, 416 Pringle, Patrick, 242 498 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

“Priory School, The,” see “Adventure of the “Red Circle, The,” see “Adventure of the Red Priory School” Circle” Pritchett, V. S., 266 Red Circle, The (Sherlockian scion in Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (VS), Washington, D. C.), 329 162*, 163*, 313, 386, 397 Red Mill, The (Fred Stone), 34, 117, 392 Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 319-20 “Red-Headed League, The” (Arthur Conan “Problem of Thor Bridge, The” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 113, 146, 245, 351, 352 Doyle), 94*, 99, 352 Redman, Ben Ray, 188 Profile by Gaslight (Edgar W. Smith), 35, 41, Redmond, Christopher, 18*, 339 404, 410, 415, 426-7, 428, 429, 435 thumbnail biography, 419-20 Punch magazine, 107, 270 Redstone, V. B., 112 puns, in mystery book titles, 233, 236 Refugees, The (Arthur Conan Doyle), 257, 258 pynot, meaning of, 303, 304 Reply Paid (H. F. Heard), 32, 401 “Resident Patient, The” (Arthur Conan Q Doyle), 90, 350 Queen, Ellery, 46, 48, 57, 66, 129, 167, 243, Return of Solar Pons, The (August Derleth), 249-50, 275, 298, 300, 390, 401, 417 255 see also Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Rhode, Franklin W., 304 bibliography of the detective story, 20 Rhodes, Eugene Manlove (Gene), 318 The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, thumbnail biography, 420 35, 42 Rhodes, Henry T. F., 230 thumbnail biography, 417 Rice, Craig, 135, 233 “Quick, Watson, the needle!,” 34, 117-8, 313, Ricolletti of the Club Foot, 18 327, 392 Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 135*, 141 quicklime, 85 thumbnail biography, 420 Quill Pushers Round Table, 292 Rinn, Ethelyn, 217 Quixote, Don, see Don Quixote Ripley, Robert, 226 quiz on Sherlock Holmes, 156-7, 283-4 Rise of Scotland Yard, The (Douglas Browne), answers to quiz, 350-55 233 quiz show questions on , 134- Road to Xanadu, The (Livingston Lowes), 179 5 Roberts, S. C. (Sidney Castle), 60*, 174, 179, 215, 248, 252 R thumbnail biography, 420-21 Rabe, W. T., 288 Robertson, Allen, 105 thumbnail biography, 417-8 thumbnail biography, 421 Rabelais, Francois, 182 Robinson, B. Fletcher, 126, 220 Radin, Edward D., 280 Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe), 44, 291, 391 Raffles, Anthony J. (E. J. Hornung), 32, 40, Roden, Carl, 130 82, 83, 144, 262, 277, 379, 404 Rodell, Marie F., 31, 142, 394, 406 “Raffles and Miss Blandish” (George Orwell), thumbnail biography, 421 82 Román Calvo, El Sherlock Holmes Chileno, “Ramble in Barsetshire, A” (Ronald Knox), 70 223* Roman Hat Mystery, The (Ellery Queen), 46, Ramble on Dartmoor, A (E. V. Knox), 107 390, 417 Rampo, Edogawa (rendition of “Edgar Allan Romance of Madame Tussaud’s, 218* Poe” into Japanese), 120 Roosevelt, Franklin (President), 62 Randall, David, 299, 303, 418-9, 436 Rosenbach, A. S., 52, 74*, 159 thumbnail biography, 418 thumbnail biography, 422 Random House, 31 Rosso, Anne Oakins, 205 Rascoe, Burton, 132, 132*, 373-5 Rothman, Steven, 39*, 105*, 112*, 154*, Rasp, The (Philip MacDonald), 300 178*, 214*, 221*, 267*, 338*, 414 Rathbone, Basil, 78, 145*, 190, 294, 295, Rubber Band, The (Rex Stout), 28, 29 308, 361-2, 386 Ruber, Peter, 301, 319* thumbnail biography, 419 thumbnail biography, 422-3 raven, stuffed, sought by MWA, 303 Ryan, Quin, 122 ravens, at Tower of London, 97-8 Rawson, Clayton, 113 S Raymond Chandler Speaking (Raymond Sackville-West, Vita, 318 Chandler), 291 Sadler’s Wells ballet company, 207, 210 Read, Gladwin A., 304 Sage’s restaurant, 327 Read, Opie, 376 Saint Louis Browns (baseball team), 314 Reade, Winwood, 338 I N D E X 499

Saki (pseudonym of H.H. Munro), 278 Sheean, Vincent, 109 thumbnail biography, 423 Sheed, F. J., 246 Sammons, Mildred, 89, 229 Sheerluck Hums (Larry Yust), 56-7 Sand, George, 214 Shelley, Mary, 305 Sandburg, Carl, 130, 206, 423, 437, 450, 451, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 210* 452, 453, 455, 462, 467 “Sherlock” (Mississippi River steamboat), thumbnail biography, 423 340, 341 Sandoe, James, 298 “Sherlock Comes to America” (Jay Finley thumbnail biography, 423-4 Christ), 205 Sappho, 176 Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Sarasate, Pablo de, 173 Chronology of Their Adventures (H.W. “Sartorial Sherlock Holmes, The” (Humfrey Bell), 100, 382 Michell), 46, 413 Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: A Saturday Review of Literature, 339, 413 Textbook of Friendship (Christopher Savage, Edgar (pseudonym of VS), 181 Morley), 35, 41, 433 Sayers, Dorothy L., 29, 30, 53, 94, 115*, 232, Sherlock Holmes and Music (Guy Warrack), 277, 298, 299, 300, 398 94 thumbnail biography, 424 Sherlock Holmes Companion, The (Michael “Scandal in Bohemia, A” (Arthur Conan and Mollie Hardwick), 301, 400 Doyle), 27, 34, 49, 60, 63, 160, 166*, 211, Sherlock Holmes, Esq. and John H. Watson, 352 M.D. (Orlando Park), 293, 296, 302, 313, Scandalous Bohemians (Sherlockian society 416 in Ohio), 59, 198 “Sherlock Holmes Hoax, The” (Pope R. Hill Scarlett, Earle P., 199 Sr.), 190-91, 403 thumbnail biography, 424-5 Sherlock Holmes in Portrait and Profile Schindler, Ray, 193 (Walter Klinefelter), 308, 407 Schlogl’s restaurant, 240, 373* Sherlock Holmes Journal, The, 303, 304, 331 Scotland, 61 Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark Scotland Yard, 40, 75, 127-8, 146, 233, 324-5, (Sherlockian society), 174, 402, 408 334 Sherlock Holmes: Master Detective (The Scotland Yard (Richard Harrison), 127-8 Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota), 205, Scott, Harold (Sir), 324 383, 412 Scott, Sutherland, 212 Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street (William S. Scott, Sir Walter, 217 Baring-Gould), 289-90, 302, 312*, 331, Scowrers and Molly Maguires (Sherlockian 429 society in California), 59, 326, 384, 392, Sherlock Holmes pub, 248-9, 421 405, 415 “Sherlock Holmes, Raffles, and Their Proto- Second Cab, The (The Speckled Band of types” (Friedrich Depken), 159 Boston), 91, 93, 406, 428 “Sherlock Holmes: Rare Book Collector” Second Case-Book (The Illustrious Clients of (Madeleine B. Stern), 302, 427 Indianapolis), 128 Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 174, Secret M issions of the Civil War (Philip Van 202, 237, 257, 381-2, 385, 398, 404, 421, Doren Stern), 258 424, 432, 467 Seducers in Ecuador (Vita Sackville-West), Sherlock, Thomas, 341 318 Sherlockian Atlas, The (Julian Wolff), 205 Seeman, Verner, 174 Sherlockian Who’s Who and What’s What (W. Seldes, Gilbert, 198 T. Rabe), 288, 418 sequels, literary, 144-5 Shiel, M. P., 30 Sewell, Anna, 376 Siddons, Sarah, 72 Shady Lane Farm (Marengo, Illinois), 187, “Sidelights on Sherlock” (James Mont- 188 gomery), 183 Shakespeare, William, 42, 44, 51*, 54, 72, 81, Siegel, Jack M., 102 128, 160, 176, 191, 207, 217, 237, 239*, Sign of the Four, The (Arthur Conan Doyle), 245, 248, 266, 281, 425 30, 50, 102*, 161, 234, 331 Shapley, Harlow, 323 “‘Signs’ of Our Times, The” (Nathan L. Shaw, George Bernard, 92, 217, 336, 360, Bengis), 234, 382 417, 422, 425 “Silver Blaze” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 183, corresponded with Arthur Conan Doyle, 351, 355 342 Silver Blaze horse race (Arlington Park), 292 thumbnail biography, 425 Simenon, Georges, 265 Shaw, John Bennett, 113, 412 Simmons, Walter, 102, 120-1 thumbnail biography, 425-6 thumbnail biography, 426 500 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

Simpson’s restaurant, 309 Speckled Band of Boston (Sherlockian Sinclair, Upton, 437 society), 59, 63, 101, 110, 208, 267, 382, (Arthur Conan Doyle), 68, 68* 406, 428 Six Napoleons of Baltimore (Sherlockian Spilsbury, Bernard (Sir), 48* society), 86, 105, 421 Spillane, Mickey, 189, 192 Skinner, Constance Lindsay award, 130 thumbnail biography, 427 Slater, Oscar, 316, 342 , 137 thumbnail biography, 426 Stamboul Train (Graham Greene), 318, 397 Small, C. Russell, 183 stamp collecting, 67, 150, 400 “Small Packet of Sherlockian Bookplates, A” Stanford University, 175 (Walter Klinefelter), 319 Stanhope, Hester (Lady), 72 Smith, Edgar W. Stanley and Livingstone, 274 Profile by Gaslight, 35, 41, 404, 410, 415, “Star Man’s Diary,” discovery of new 426-7, 428, 429, 435 Sherlock Holmes tale announced, 18 “Baker Street Inventory,” 54 Stark-Munro Letters, The (Arthur Conan “A Baker Street Folio,” 62 Doyle), 92, 442 member of panel to judge Speckled Band Starrett, Vincent, 66, 190 contest, 63 contributed to Profile by Gaslight, 42 will edit new Baker Street Journal, 66 judge of Speckled Band essay contest, 63 wrote introduction to Christ’s “Irregular wrote introduction to the Solar Pons Guide,” 101 series, 66 BSI edition of BLUE, 123 wrote foreword to The Second Cab, 91, 93 contributed to “Second Case-Book” of white-thatched, 104 The Illustrious Clients, 128 wrote introduction to Client’s Case Book, Limited Editions Club, 164*, 193, 194 107 “A Baker Street Quartette,” 167 tribute to by Friends of Chicago Public honored by Sherlock Holmes Society of Library, 130-33 London, 174 honored by Sherlock Holm es Society of monograph hurled at the head of, 190 London, 174 “The Napoleon of Crime,” 210, wrote introduction to “The Painful Heritage Press edition of the Canon, 246 Predicament of Sherlock Holmes,” 176 “The Incunabular Sherlock Holmes,” 252 wrote introduction to Limited Editions wrote introduction to The Return of Solar Club Sherlock Holmes series, 36, 36*, Pons, 255 165, 193 contributed to Third Cab, 267 “The Unique Hamlet” translated into question of the paternity of Nero Wolfe, Danish, 207 312* contributed to Clients’ Case-Book No. 3, thumbnail biography, 426-7 211 birth of, 442 must be crazy to stay in Chicago, 218-9 Smith, Elsdon C., 159 Starrett’s Law, 234 Smith, Greenhough, 136 wrote introduction to Heritage Press Smith, Lillian H., 44, 213 edition of the Canon, 246 Smith, Sidney (Sir), 270 laureate of the Caxton Club for 1958, 254 “Snow-Bound” (John Greenleaf Whittier), 303 “The Adventure of the Acephalous Snyder, Le Moyne (Doctor), 84 Agronomist,” 287-8 “Sobre la Pista del Corsario” (Miguel de Basil and the Lost Colony dedicated to, Fuenzalida), 71 310 Society of Midland Authors, 130, 133, 401 television interview, 312 Society of the Friends of Lizzie Borden, 280, wrote introduction to The Casebook of 384 Solar Pons, 325 Some Literary Recollections (James Payn), helped reveal true author of “The Man 114-5 Who Was Wanted,” 346 “Som e Notes on a Meeting at Chisham” Burton Rascoe essay on, 373-6 (Robert John Bayer), 168 receives “Two Shilling” award from Baker “Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Street Irregulars, 472 Holmes” (Arthur Conan Doyle), 98, 99 steamboat named “Sherlock,” 340, 341 South Africa, 342 Steeger, Harry, 193 South Wind (Norman Douglas), 253 Steele, Frederic Dorr, 31, 36, 90, 190, 308, Spade, Sam, 399 315*, 397, 402 Spain, Holmes pastiches in, 32 death of, 47-8 “Speckled Band,” see “Adventure of the thumbnail biography, 427 Speckled Band” Steinkopf, Alvin, 158 I N D E X 501

Stern, G. B., 211-12 Teale, Edwin Way, 69 Stern, Madeleine B., 213, 302 Teen Age Mystery Stories (Frank Owen), 298 thumbnail biography, 427-8 ten commandments of the detective story, Stern, Philip Van Doren, 258 138, 138*, 363 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 19, 19*, 133, 227, Terror, The (), 318 263, 278, 336, 342, 376 Tey, Josephine (one of the pen names of thumbnail biography, 428 Elizabeth Mackintosh), 265, 299 Stipes, Virginia, 304 thumbnail biography, 430 “Stockbroker’s Clerk, The” (Arthur Conan Thackeray, William Makepeace, 72, 143 Doyle), 342, 351, 354 Thin Man, The (Dashiell Hammett), 30 Stone, Fred, 117, 392 Thinking Machine on the Job, The (Jacques Stone, P. M. (Percival Mason), 208 Futrelle), 318 thumbnail biography, 428 Third Cab, The (The Speckled Band of Stories of Famous Detectives (Leonard Boston), 267 Gribble), 306-7 Third Way, The (Stuart Cloete), 92 Story of Scotland Yard, The (Sir Ronald Thirteen Bus, The (Vincent Sheean), 109 Howe), 334-5 30 Stories to Remember (Thomas B. Costain Story of Our Names, The (Elsdon C. Smith), and John Beecroft), 292 159 39 Steps, The (John Buchan), 299 Stout, Rex, 27-9, 30, 31, 42, 265, 289*, 299, This Book Collecting Game (A. Edward 300, 312*, 471 Newton), 305 thumbnail biography, 428-9 This Is My Best (Whit Burnett), 326-7 Stradivari, Antonio, 321 Thompson, Francis, 147-8, 370 Strand magazine, 65, 99, 122, 136, 158, 160, Thomson, Basil (Sir), 75, 127, 334, 430 220, 276, 301, 302, 309, 386, 397, 406, thumbnail biography, 430 414, 415 “Thor Bridge,” see “Problem of Thor Bridge” Strange Fruit (Lillian Smith), 44 Thorndike, Russell, 30 Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason, The Thorndyke, John Evelyn (Doctor) (R. Austin (Melville Davisson Post), 30 Freeman), 29, 30, 318, 395-6 Strange Studies from Life (Arthur Conan Thornton, Willis, 238 Doyle), 301 Three Parts Scotch (Guthrie Burton), 77 Stribling, T. S., 318 “Three Problems for Solar Pons” (August thumbnail biography, 429 Derleth), 199, 205 Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers), 300 Three Trifling Monographs (James Mont- Studies in Sherlock Holmes (Owen Graze- gomery), 205, 413 brook), 211, 397 Throckmorton, Jane, 128 “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Ti Jen-chieh (Di Jen-djieh, Judge Dee), see Holmes” (Ronald Knox), 245, 266, 407 China, detective story in Study in Pictures, A (James Montgomery), Titus, Eve (pen name of Nancy Lord), 251, 225 310 Study in Scarlet, A (Arthur Conan Doyle), 70, thumbnail biography, 430-1 79, 84, 151, 152, 160, 216, 305, 342, 350, tobacco ash, 271 365 Too Many Cooks (Rex Stout), 299 “Study in Terror, A” (movie), 330 Tower of London, 97-8, 430 Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. Trained Cormorants (Sherlockian society in McClure (Peter Lyon), 306 California), 326, 395 “Sussex Vampire,” see “Adventure of the Trent’s Last Case (E. C. Bentley), 29 Sussex Vampire” “True Conan Doyle, The” (Adrian Conan Swanson, Carl, 218 Doyle), 70, 98, 393 Swiss Family Robinson, 261 Turner, Robert, 281 Symons, Julian, 338 Tussaud, M arie (Madame) 73, 79, 111, 217, thumbnail biography, 429-30 293 synoptic problem, 54 thumbnail biography, 431 Twain, Mark, 42, 44, 54, 171, 218 T thumbnail biography, 431 Tales from a Beekman Hill Library (Charles “Twelfth Night” (William Shakespeare), 248 Honce), 205 Twist, The (dance), 310 Taste for Honey, A (H. F. Heard), 31-2, 401 “221B” (sonnet by VS), 294* Taubeneck, George, 88 “” (A. D. Henriksen), 154, Taylor, Bert Leston, 129 174 taxi interludes, 34 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes (edited by Tea Leaf, The, 136 VS), 234, 427, 432 502 S h e r l o c k A l i v e

Thunder and the Sunshine, The (Jerry Allen), Wallach, Mark I., 326*, 414 251 Walpole, Horace, 305 Wanderer, The (Fritz Leiber), 311 U Ward, Mary Jane, 132 Uffa, Island of, 18, 42, 60, 62, 62-63, 64, 111- Warrack, Guy, 94 12 thumbnail biography, 432-3 Ulysses (James Joyce), 93, 232, 253, 452 “Was the Later Holmes an Im poster?” Uncle Abner (Melville Davisson Post), 30, 46, (Anthony Boucher), 42 136, 417 Watson, John H. (Doctor), 194, 208, 215, 267, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe), 301, 312, 313, 350-1 195* parodists’ names for, 55, 332 “Unique ‘Hamlet,’ The” (VS), 207, 408, 452 death of, 289 University of Alberta, 199, 424 Rex Stout claims he was a woman, 42, University of California, 38 428-9 University of Chicago, 60, 69, 88, 100, 147, “Watson Was a Woman” (Rex Stout), 42 179*, 388, 441, 443, 447, 456, 461, 463, Way’s Steamboat Directory, 341 464, 476 Webster, H. T., 214 University of Detroit, 418 Webster’s Dictionary, 122 University of Georgia, 190, 403 Weinstein, Leo, 259 University of Minnesota, 80, 102*, 179, 205, Well Full of Leaves, A (Elizabeth Myers), 318 250, 272, 315*, 383, 389, 401, 411-12, Wells, Carolyn, 48 425 thumbnail biography, 433 University of Southern California, 33 Wells, H. G., 137, 217, 433 University of Texas, 286, 293, 414, 417 thumbnail biography, 433 University of Wisconsin, 65 Wendt, Lloyd, 130 Unpopular Opinions (Dorothy Sayers), 94 West By One and By One (Scowrers and Unreluctant Years, The (Lillian H. Smith), Molly Maguires), 325-6, 392, 409, 415, 213 416 Weygand, James Lamar (The Indiana Kid), V 320 Valanis, Al, 147 While Rome Burns (Alexander Woollcott), 23, “Valentine for Irene Adler” (Christopher 35, 435 Morley), 39 White Company, The (Arthur Conan Doyle), Valley of Fear, The (Arthur Conan Doyle), 68, 68* 194, 300, 350, 353, 354, 355 Whitaker, Arthur, author of “The Man Who Valmont, Eugene, 277 Was Wanted,” 124-5, 156, 345-6 Van Dine, S.S. (pen name of Willard Hunt- White, Paul Dudley, 243 ington Wright), 30, 300 Whitman, Walt, 44 thumbnail biography, 431-2 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 303 Van Dusen, Augustus S. F. X. (The Thinking Whose Body? (Dorothy Sayers), 299 Machine) (Jacques Futrelle), 278, 396 Why Was Lincoln Murdered? (Otto Eisen- van Gulik, Robert, 256, 320, 391 schiml), 237, 394 thumbnail biography, 432 Wife of Altamont, The (Violet Hunt), 170 van Patten, Nathan, 175 Wighton, Charles, 333 van Thal, Herbert, 274 Williams, H. B., 106, 120 Vance, Philo (S. S. Van Dine), 48, 362, 431 thumbnail biography, 433 Vanguard Press, 32 Williams, Marjorie, 304 Viaduct Murder, The (Ronald Knox), 245, Williamson, Mary Esther, 128 246, 407 Williamson, Jerry Neal, 106, 107, 128, 156, Victoria (Queen), 439, 443, 444 183, 211 Vidocq, Eugène François, 25, 48*, 306-7, 417 thumbnail biography, 433-4 thumbnail biography, 432 Wilson, Charles, 245 villains, categories of, 33, 268, 434 Wilson, Jabez (REDH), 146, 245 violins, 321-2 Wilson the Notorious Canary Trainer, 18, 203 Voltaire, 115 Wilson, Willard, 205 Wimsey, Peter (Lord) (Dorothy Sayers), 269, W 424, 453 Wade, Harry, 69 Wind in the Willows, The (Kenneth Grahame), Wagenknecht, Edward, 114 253 Walbridge, Earle, 213 Winn, Marcia, 34 thumbnail biography, 432 Wise, Thomas James, 337 Wallace, Irving, 227 I N D E X 503

Wodehouse, P. G., 268 Wright, Lee, 39, 66 thumbnail biography, 434 thumbnail biography, 435 Wolfe, Nero (Rex Stout), 28, 136, 289*, 312, Wylie, Raymond, 217 429 Wolff, Julian, 42, 159, 205, 325 Y refuted Rex Stout, 429 York, Duke of, 80 thumbnail biography, 434 Yoshida, Kenichi, 121 Woman in White, The (Wilkie Collins), 30, Young Chevalier, The (R. L. Stevenson), 19 389 Yuhasova, Helene, 91 Women’s National Bank Association, 130 Yust, Larry, 56-7 Wood, Robert Williams, 314 Yust, Walter, 56, 146 Woollcott, Alexander, 23-5, 34 thumbnail biography, 434-5 Z Woolrich, Cornell, 265 Zadig (Voltaire), 115 World’s Greatest Spies, The (Charles Zangwill, Israel, 139 Wighton), 333-4 Zara, Louis, 130 Worth, Adam, 36, 386, 444 Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfield, 89*, 207-8 thumbnail biography, 435 thumbnail biography, 436