The Baker Street reader: cornerstone writings about Sherlock Holmes.PHILIP A. SHREFFLER has given us what is probably the best anthology of essays on Sherlock A Macintosh utility starting with Version 8.5 of the operating system that provides a common facility for searching the local hard disk, the local network and the Internet. Holmes ever assembled. Not that The Baker Street Reader couldn't have been substantially improved; it is hard to feel altogether comfortable with a Holmes reader that fails to include Julian Symons's "The Case of Sherlock Holmes," Christopher Morley's introduction to The Complete Sherlock Holmes, or anything at all by G. K. Chesterton. Moreover, Mr. Shreffler's book contains far too many examples of the sort of pseudo-scholarly whimsy-whamsy that is the stock in trade of Baker Street Irregulars The Baker Street Irregulars are several different groups, all named after the original, from various Sherlock Holmes stories. The original The original irregulars were a group of fictional characters featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories. at play. (One particularly flagrant fla·grant adj. 1. Conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible: a flagrant miscarriage of justice; flagrant cases of wrongdoing at the highest levels of government. See Usage Note at blatant. 2. case: an essay devoted solely to the pressing question of whether Holmes attended Oxford or Cambridge.) STill, most of the old reliables are here--Edmund Wilson's "'Mr. Holmes, They Were the Footprints of a Gigantic HoundM'" Ronald Knox's "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes," Rex Stout's "Watson Was a Woman," various pertinent extracts from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's memoirs mem·oir n. 1. An account of the personal experiences of an author. 2. An autobiography. Often used in the plural. 3. A biography or biographical sketch. 4. . There is also one real find: a 1929 essay by T. S. Eliot exhumed Exhumed may refer to:
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