| | Sherlock Holmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Sherlock Holmes is one of those fictional detectives that you are either hooked on or are indifferent to (I alternate over cycles of about seven years -- must be some comet or something like that -- the comet must have come round again in 1998 to revive the Holmes interest, hence this web page). |
 | | The author (whose first book this is?) has the classic credentials: studied with Kurt Vonnegut in college in Iowa, schoolteacher, book salesman, factory worker, bus driver, bartender, and editor for a Boston publishing firm. |
 | | The book's dedication is to Frederic Dannay (part of Ellery Queen), and reads: "...who first appreciated the full extent to which Schlock Homes could contribute to the confusion of logical reasoning." And that it does indeed. |
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