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THE GRAND GAME: A CELEBRATION OF SHERLOCKIAN SCHOLARSHIP, Vol. 2, i960- 2010. Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, 2012. 390 pp. $39.95 plus shipping. Editors King and Klinger have produced a second large helping of wellselected Sherlockian scholarship. This time they have chosen to arrange their catch purely chronologically. The 61 essays have been selected from the BSJ, the Sherlock Holmes fournal, and a variety of books and pamphlets. Favorites cannot be selected from a volume like this. The contributors include Poul and Karen Anderson, Tupper Bigelow, Baring-Gould, Bernard Davies, Roger Lancelyn Green, Holroyd, Dakin, Harrison, Wigglesworth, Blau, Hammer, Hyder, and Bogomoletz. The best part is knowing that many of the audiors in this volume continue to write and add to our appreciation of Holmes. You cannot fail to find room for this on your shelves. Available from www.bakerstreetjournal.com.
THE ILLUSTRATED SPECKLED BAND: THE ORIGINAL I 90 I STAGE PRODUCTION IN SCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHS by Arthur Conan Doyle. Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Indianapolis: Gasogene Books, 2012. 104 pp. $19.95. The script of Conan Doyle's dramatization of "The Speckled Band" is reprinted accompanied by an article about the original London production from die July 191 o issue of The PL·ygoer and Society Illustrated. The many photographs offer us the ability to better understand just what West End audiences were seeing 1 00 years ago. An article by Dixon Smith on the composition of the play and its production rounds out this contribution to our knowledge of the theatrical Holmes. Available from www.gasogenebooks.com.
INTRODUCING SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE GREAT DETECTIVE ACCORDING TO DOYLE by William Hyder. Eugenia, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 201 1. 309 pp. $25 plus shipping. Hyder has created an introduction to the Canon, presenting eight short Holmes stories, plus the opening chapters of A Study in Scarlet, with a considerable editorial framework. Hyder discusses Holmes's career and character while explaining late-Victorian England and providing a useful glossary of terms in the stories that are no longer common. In fact, though he doesn't say it, Hyder has created a wonderful textbook for the aspiring...