The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)

Crowe, Michael J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98291-5_7

Michael J. Crowe²

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Abstract

Crowe provides an analysis centered on the idea of a Gestalt shift of the twelve Holmes stories anthologized in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Included are some very good Holmes stories such as “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client,” “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” “The Problem of Thor Bridge,” and “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane.”

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1.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1176.
2.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1177.
3.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1178–1179.
4.
D. Martin Dakin, A Sherlock Holmes Commentary (Newton Abbott: Dayton and Charles, 1974), 259. See also Arthur Conan Doyle. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, annotated. by Leslie S. Klinger, vol. II (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 1481.
5.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1160.
6.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1192.
7.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1192. One wonders whether other plausible hypotheses would be that Godfrey was hiding from an enemy, feared being charged with a paternity suit, or was writing a book.
8.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Mazarin_Stone. Viewed January 20, 2015.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1198.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1197.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1203.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1206.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1208.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1215.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1217.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1218.
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This analysis may go some way toward redeeming this story from the indictment of it by D. Martin Dakin in his generally excellent Sherlock Holmes Commentary (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974), 265. Dakin describes it as “[m]uch the poorest story” in the sixty stories that make up the Holmes canon.
18.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1228.
19.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1228.
20.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1230.
21.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Memories and Adventures and Western Wanderings (Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 75.
22.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1237.
23.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1241.
24.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1256.
25.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1252.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1254.
27.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1258.
28.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1262.
29.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1266.
30.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1273.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1275–1276.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1276.
33.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1278.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1279.
35.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1285.
36.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1287.
37.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1288.
38.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1297–1298.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1295.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1295.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1294.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1307.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1311.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1312.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1313.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1316.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1319.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1319.
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Doyle, Holmes, II, 1320.
50.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1321.
51.
Doyle, Holmes, II, 1320.

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Crowe, M.J. (2018). The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). In: The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98291-5_7

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