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Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859\u20131930 Despite, or possibly because of, their extraordinary success, Doyle began to tire of writing the Holmes stories even as he rushed to complete the second series commissioned by The Strand Magazine.<\/em> His solution was simple: kill off his creation; and he did this in \u201cThe Final Problem\u201d which closes this volume. Holmes meets his end in an exciting, unforgettable way: hand-to-hand combat with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, above the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. The world was shocked, and treated Holmes as a real person, with obituaries appearing in newspapers and mourners reputedly wearing black armbands. Doyle went on his way, collecting Holmes royalties, writing fiction, occasional verse, and an account of the Boer War. Bowing to popular demand, he produced The Hound of the Baskervilles <\/em>in 1901-1902, but Watson\u2019s narrative refers to long-past events before the battle with Moriarty. Finally, Doyle resurrected his hero in \u201cThe Adventure of the Empty House\u201d (first published in Collier\u2019s<\/em> in September 1903), explaining Holmes\u2019s remarkable survival and absence on travels which took him as far away as Tibet before returning to more adventures in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] <\/p>\n\n\n\n C. L. (Catherine Louisa) Pirkis,1839\u20131910 The 1890s and the years following the turn of the century saw the short story become a major literary form, due to, among other factors, a plethora of new, illustrated periodicals serving a more widely literate and increasingly affluent public which craved reading matter. Crime fiction was especially in demand, with many writers using Doyle\u2019s technique of following a detective through a series of stories which were then collected into books. Imitators and competitors to Sherlock Holmes were legion. Such characters as Arthur Morrison\u2019s Martin Hewitt, R. Austin Freeman\u2019s Dr. Thorndyke, G. K. Chesteron\u2019s Father Brown, and E. C. Bentley\u2019s Trent come to mind. (Not to forget E. W. Hornung\u2019s Raffles, the gentleman thief, who, with his sidekick Bunny, was the flip side of Holmes\u2014but then Hornung was Doyle\u2019s brother-in-law and the first Raffles book was dedicated \u201cTo A. C. D. this form of flattery.\u201d) In the age of the New Woman, female sleuths and female authors were not left behind: Grant Allen\u2019s Miss Cayley and Baroness Orczy\u2019s Lady Molly (of Scotland Yard) have their admirers but perhaps the best of their kind was Loveday Brooke, the \u201clady detective\u201d created by the novelist Catherine Pirkis in the pages of the Ludgate Monthly.<\/em> Like Holmes, Brooke was brilliant, professional (as shown by the calling card affixed to this book\u2019s front cover), and fully equal, if not superior, to Sherlock Holmes. Contemporary critics considered Pirkis\u2019s plots and writing style better than Doyle\u2019s, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859\u20131930 If it was Sidney Paget who gave us the image of Sherlock Holmes wearing a deerstalker cap and Inverness cape (neither of which are in Doyle\u2019s stories), then it was the American artist, Frederic Dorr Steele, who, seeing William Gillette perform in the play version of \u201cA Scandal in Bohemia,\u201d put the consulting detective in a decadent dressing gown. Steele illustrated the stories collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes<\/em> when they appeared in Collier\u2019s<\/em> and the publisher included them in this repackaging of the \u201ccanon\u201d as it stood in 1904.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n David A. Randall, 1905\u20131975 Following Doyle\u2019s death in 1930, Holmes seems to have had\u2014and continues to have\u2014 a life of his own in the hands of other writers. Some of the \u201cnew\u201d adventures, often claiming to derive from an overlooked manuscript left by Dr. Watson, take the form of full-length novels, or, indeed, even whole series of novels. Others are deliberately set in a minor key, aimed at a niche audience and often printed in a collectable format. Randall, an antiquarian bookseller who later became the first head of the Lilly Library at Indiana University, wrote The Adventure of the Notorious Forger<\/em> for those familiar with the world of rare books. The \u201cnotorious forger\u201d is a real person, Thomas J. Wise (1859\u20131937), the eminent collector and bibliographer who was unmasked in the 1930s as the producer of spurious first editions of such authors as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris, and Alfred Tennyson. Holmes of course determines that his enemy Professor Moriarty, Moriarty\u2019s henchman Colonel Sebastian Moran, and Wise are one and the same. (Special Collections has significant holdings related to Thomas J. Wise and his associates in the Frank W. Tober Collection of Literary Forgery.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859\u20131930 Founded in 1947 and following in the tradition of the famed Grabhorn Press, the Arion Press in San Francisco has produced celebrated fine press editions of classics and avant-garde literature for nearly seventy-five years. The books were (and are) designed by the distinguished printer, Andrew Hoyem, and nearly always are collaborations with well-known artists. This edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em> is unusual because the illustrations do not specifically depict scenes from the novel; instead, the photographs by Michael Keenan seek to evoke the wild moors of Dartmoor where the adventure takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n William B. Branch,1927-2019 Edited by William B. Branch, a leading Black playwright, Black Theater <\/em>includes Sherlock Holmes and the Hands of Othello: A Drama in Two Acts<\/em> by Alex Simmons. First produced by Westbeth Theatre in New York in October 1987, the play tells of Holmes solving a complicated case in which the daughter of famed nineteenth-century Black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge is visited by a family curse. Simmons is a distinguished writer, arts educator, playwright, and producer, the founder of the annual Kids Comic Con, and founder and curator of the Color of Comics Exhibition. He also served on the board of the New York State Alliance for Arts and Education for five years; is a consultant for the Christopher Barron Live Life Foundation; and is affiliated with the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sherlock Holmes: A Philatelic Gallery.<\/em> Berkeley, CA: Poole Press, 1995. \u201cDesigned, handset, printed and bound by Maryline Poole Adams,\u201d this unusual miniature artist\u2019s book incorporates actual postage stamps, issued in October 1993 by the British Post Office to commemorate the century of the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian Symons, 1912\u20131994 In this skit in which Sherlock Holmes meets up with the world\u2019s other greatest consulting detective, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, the crime writer (and writer on crime) Julian Symons continued the long history of imagining Holmes\u2019s interacting with fictional and historical figures. The tradition began early, when Maurice Leblanc\u2019s \u201cSherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late,\u201d was collected in Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar<\/em> in 1905. Since then, Holmes has had encounters with, to name just a few names, Dr. Jekyll, Dracula, Frankenstein, Tarzan, Alice (in Wonderland), Harry Potter, and Tom and Jerry. He has also been depicted alongside nonfictional historical figures, some of whom, such as Oscar Wilde, Israel Zangwill, and Harry Houdini, were known to Arthur Conan Doyle. Perhaps the most memorable of all these relationships was the one recorded in Nicholas Meyer\u2019s The Seven Percent Solution <\/em>in which Sigmund Freud gets to the root of Holmes\u2019s troubled psyche through hypnosis. Beautifully printed letterpress, Did Sherlock Meet Hercule <\/em>\u2026 contains two illustrations by John De Pol, one of the American masters of wood-engraving of the twentieth century and a regular collaborator with Neil Shaver\u2019s Yellow Barn Press. 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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. <\/em>London: George Newnes, 1894.
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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective.<\/em> London: Hutchinson & Co. 1894.
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Conan Doyle’s Best Books: In Three Volumes, Illustrated. <\/em>New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1904.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Adventure of the Notorious Forger.<\/em> Sam Francisco, CA: Randall & Windle, 1978.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Hound of the Baskerville<\/em>s. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1985.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Black Thunder: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Drama: Edited with an Introduction by William B. Branch.<\/em> Mentor, 1992.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Marnie Flook Miniature Book Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Did Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule\u2026: Wood Engravings by John De Po<\/em>l. Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press, 1988.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n