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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes PDF

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T S A C D O IR RTHUR ONAN OYLE “Steel true, blade straight” CONTENTS Preface Introduction by John le Carré The World of Sherlock Holmes THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE A CASE OF IDENTITY THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP “A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME . . .” THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE A WINTER’S CROP THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND “IT IS A SWAMP ADDER! . . . THE DEADLIEST SNAKE IN INDIA.” THE GUNS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND JOHN H. WATSON, M.D. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES SILVER BLAZE “. . . AND THE CALCULATION IS A SIMPLE ONE” “I STAND TO WIN A LITTLE ON THIS NEXT RACE . . .” THE CARDBOARD BOX THE YELLOW FACE THE STOCK-BROKER’S CLERK THE “GLORIA SCOTT” THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL THE RITUAL OF THE MUSGRAVES THE REIGATE SQUIRES THE CROOKED MAN THE INDIAN MUTINY THE RESIDENT PATIENT THE TEXT OF “THE RESIDENT PATIENT” THE GREEK INTERPRETER MYCROFT HOLMES THE NAVAL TREATY THE FINAL PROBLEM REVISIONS OF “THE FINAL PROBLEM” Chronological Table: The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes Other Annotated Books Also by Leslie S. Klinger PREFACE I N 1968, WHEN I was supposed to be engrossed in law school studies, I received a gift of William S. Baring- Gould’s The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, published the previous year. This magical pair of volumes entranced me and led me back to the stories that I had enjoyed when I was young(er) and had subsequently forgotten. More importantly, the books introduced me to the idea of Sherlockian scholarship, the “game” of treating the stories as biography, not fiction. In later years, as I avidly collected things Sherlockian, I dreamed that someday I, too, would produce an annotated version of the Canon. Baring-Gould’s Annotated Sherlock Holmes remained in print for more than twenty-five years and became the cornerstone of every Sherlock Holmes library. Yet it had its idiosyncrasies, with the stories arranged in the controversial chronological order created by Baring- Gould and with footnotes that embraced, in many cases, Baring-Gould’s personal theories regarding the life of Holmes. Sadly, Baring-Gould did not live to see publication of his greatest work, and as a result, occasional errors were not corrected. In contrast to the Baring-Gould edition, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, published in 1993, presented the stories in nine volumes (as they were originally published in book form), but the scholarly notes largely ignored Sherlockian scholarship, concentrating more traditionally on analysis of Conan Doyle’s sources. I set out to create for this edition an annotated text that reflects the spectrum of views on Sherlockian controversies rather than my own theories. In addition, this work brings current Baring-Gould’s long-outdated survey of the literature, including references to hundreds of works published subsequently. Recognizing that many of the events recorded in the stories took place in England over 100 to 150 years ago, it also includes much background information on the Victorian age, its history, culture, and vocabulary. For the serious scholar of the Sherlockian Canon, there is an extensive bibliography at the end of Volume II. Chronological tables, summarizing the key dates in the lives of Holmes, Watson, and Conan Doyle and major world events, are set forth at the end of each volume. I have avoided “lawyerly” citations of the works consulted, but full citations may be found in the nine volumes of my Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, published by Gasogene Books. Thirty-seven years have passed since publication of Baring-Gould’s monumental work, and the world of Sherlock Holmes has grown much larger. This edition was created with the assistance of new resources that now exist for the serious student—Ronald L. DeWaal’s The Universal Sherlock Holmes, Jack Tracy’s Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana, Steve Clarkson’s Canonical Compendium, and scores of other handbooks, reference works, indexes, and collections, many in computerised format. It also reflects the aid of a new tool—the Internet, which makes accessible immense quantities of minute detail. This is not a work for the serious student of Arthur Conan Doyle. While Doylean scholarship is vitally important, the reader of these volumes will not find reference to the literary sources of the stories or to biographical incidents in the life of Sir Arthur that may be reflected in the Canon. I perpetuate the gentle fiction that Holmes and Watson really lived and that (except as noted) Dr. John H. Watson wrote the stories about Sherlock Holmes, even though he graciously allowed them to be published under the byline of his colleague and literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. To keep this work from approaching the length of a telephone book, it is published in three volumes: The first two volumes consist of the fifty-six short stories that appeared from 1891 to 1927 (Volume I containing the stories collected in the volumes called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Volume II containing the stories collected under the titles The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes); the third volume (to be

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