The Enduring Fascination with Sherlock Holmes

“The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.,” by Nicholas Meyer (Minotaur)
“The Complete Paget Portfolio,” by Nicholas Utechin (Gasogene)

Edited by the eminent English Sherlockian Nicholas Utechin, “The Complete Paget Portfolio” (Gasogene) showcases — in the words of its subtitle — “Every Sherlock Holmes Illustration by Sidney Paget Reproduced Directly from ‘The Strand’ Magazine, Including the Surviving Original Artwork.” “The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes,” edited by Graeme Davis (Pegasus)
“A Taste for Honey,” by H. F. Heard (American Mystery Classics)

Last year, publishing’s debonair crime lord Otto Penzler inaugurated a uniform line of attractive hardbacks called the American Mystery Classics. Thus, in the original opening of “The Red-Headed League,” Watson drops in at Baker Street and discovers Holmes with a client.

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