Abstract
Crowe provides an analysis centered on the idea of a Gestalt shift of the twelve Holmes stories anthologized in Memoirs. Included are some of the very best Holmes stories such as “The Adventure of Silver Blaze,” “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual,” “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty,” and “The Final Problem.”
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 397.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 397.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 398.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 398.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 398–399.
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For an excellent analysis of this story, see Gilbert K. Chesterton, “How to Write a Detective Story,” on the internet at http://www.chesterton.org/how-to-write-detective/. Viewed March 21, 2015. For example, Chesterton notes that it is a “story of theft in which the horse plays the part of the jewel until we forget that the jewel can also play the part of the weapon.” Chesterton’s essay is also available in John Peterson (ed.), G. K. Chesterton on Detective Fiction (Sauk City, Wisconsin: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box: 2010), 74–79.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 411–412.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 414.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 415.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 415.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 420.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 429.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 429.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 432.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 432.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 452.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 457.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 459.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 462.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 462.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 464.
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(Wildside Press, 2016).
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 476.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 477.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 481–482.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 482.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 499.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 501.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1075.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 525.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 527–529.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 534–535.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 535.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 537.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 538.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 553.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 555.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 544.
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Doyle, Holmes, I, 544.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K. “How to Write a Detective Story,” on the internet at http://www.chesterton.org/how-to-write-detective/. Viewed 21 March 2015.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=479669702579. Viewed 24 December 2014.
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Crowe, M.J. (2018). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). In: The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98291-5_4
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