Introduction
Noteon the Text
SelectBibliography
AChronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
TheSign of the Four
AScandal in Bohemia
ACase of Identity
TheRed-Headed League
TheMan with the Twisted Lip
TheBlue Carbuncle
TheSpeckled Band
TheMusgrave Ritual
TheGreek Interpreter
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INTRODUCTION
(BarryMcCrea)

Amongthe members of the Baker Street Irregulars, the most famous society ofdedicated Holmes fans, a convention known as ‘the game’ requires one to treatHolmes as a real historical personage, Watson as his biographer, and ArthurConan Doyle as the unimportant, even unreliable publisher of Watson’s writings.The Irregulars’ practice, playful as it is, points to a real truth about theHolmes stories: the huge gulf that separates Holmes and his creator. Thestories are proof, if it was ever needed, that the writer and the work arewholly distinct entities. Doyle thought of the stories as a trivial andfrivolous distraction from his real literary ambitions, and his severalattempts to kill off his creation were all foiled. Holmes is a bohemianbachelor

Introduction
Noteon the Text
SelectBibliography
AChronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
TheSign of the Four
AScandal in Bohemia
ACase of Identity
TheRed-Headed League
TheMan with the Twisted Lip
TheBlue Carbuncle
TheSpeckled Band
TheMusgrave Ritual
TheGreek Interpreter
TheDancing Men

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