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The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature. All have connections to the world of belles lettres, the world of literature - some to celebrated authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers . . . . Let others plumb this collection for more subtle themes. From Maupassant to Stevenson to Fitzgerald, the authorial giants who populate these pages are explanation enough for its title. As interesting as such literary associations may be, of course, one can never forget that in the finest tradition of all the other adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these sketches depict a series of heartless criminal acts - some more gruesome than others.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	20 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781787054646
Langue	English

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THE
LITERARY ADVENTURES
OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
A COLLECTION OF SHORT SKETCHES
VOLUME ONE
Containing additional manuscripts found in the dispatch box of Dr John H. Watson in the vault of Cox & Co., Charing Cross, London
Edited By
Daniel D. Victor, Ph.D.

First edition published in 2019
Copyright © 2019 Daniel D. Victor
Daniel D. Victor asserts the right to be identified as the author of this work.
All rights reserved. No reproduction or transmission of this publication may be made without express prior written permission.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Digital version converted and published by
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Cover design by Brian Belanger

Also by Daniel D. Victor
The Seventh Bullet:
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Synchronicity
The Final Page of Baker Street
(Book One in the series,
Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baron of Brede Place
(Book Two in the series,
Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati)
Seventeen Minutes to Baker Street
(Book Three in the series,
Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati)
The Outrage at the Diogenes Club
(Book Four in the series,
Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati)
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadows of St Petersburg
Sherlock Holmes and the London Particular
(Book Five in the series,
Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati)

For David Marcum,
without whose encouragement
these stories would never have seen the light of day

Introduction
As compiled by Arthur Conan Doyle, the original cases of Sherlock Holmes may be categorized in any number of ways. There are, for example, those that feature animals such as The Hound of the Baskervilles , “The Veiled Lodger,” and “The Lion’s Mane.” Others, like “A Case of Identity” and “The Noble Bachelor,” may be labelled as stories of love gone awry. Some, like “The Three Garridebs” and “The Dancing Men,” feature American villains. And still others, like “The Second Stain” and “The Bruce Partington Plans,” depict political subterfuge.
The eleven stories gathered together in this two-volume anthology share their own common feature. All have connections to the world of belles lettres , the world of literature—some to authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers.
In both volumes, the stories appear in the chronological order of the cases they depict. Those in Volume One take place before Sherlock Holmes reappears from his presumed death at the Reichenbach Falls. The stories in the second volume proceed well into his retirement.
By way of introduction to the stories, allow me to establish their literary associations: “The Missing Necklace” tells of Holmes’s friendship with French author, Guy de Maupassant, which led to the writing of one of the French author’s most famous stories. “The Amateur Emigrant” pairs Holmes with Robert Louis Stevenson on the single night the writer spent in New York City. “The Second William Wilson” serves as a sequel to a frightening psychological tale by Edgar Allan Poe. “The Aspen Papers” offers Watson’s account of a situation that Henry James fictionalized in his acclaimed short story, “The Aspern Papers.” “For Want of a Sword” and “Capitol Murder” identify the role of Sherlock Holmes in two historical events—one involving the British Navy in the Mediterranean; the other, the assassination of an American governor—both occurrences originally reported by American journalist and novelist, David Graham Phillips. “The Smith-Mortimer Succession” that begins Volume Two illustrates a case referenced by Holmes’s Boswell-like biographer, Dr John Watson, in “The Golden Pince-Nez.” “An Adventure in Darkness” completes the story about the country of the blind first made public by author H.G. Wells. “An Adventure in the Mid-Day Sun” presents a case in the voice of the young American mystery writer Raymond Chandler, who in his youth served as a page-boy at 221B Baker Street. “The Star-Crossed Lovers,” like the title, echoes the primary theme of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet . Finally, “A Case of Mistaken Identity” documents the meeting between Sherlock Holmes and the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald that took place late in the detective’s life.
Let others plumb this collection for more subtle themes. From Maupassant to Fitzgerald, the authorial giants who populate the pages of both volumes are explanation enough for its title. As interesting as such literary associations may be, of course, one can never forget that these sketches depict a series of heartless criminal acts—some more gruesome than others—in the finest tradition of all the other adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Daniel D. Victor, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, California
June 2019

Sources
“The Adventure of the Missing Necklace” originally appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part IV , ed. David Marcum, (London: MX Publishing, 2016).
“The Adventure of the Amateur Emigrant” originally appeared in Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street , ed. Derrick Belanger (Manchester, NH: Belanger Books LLC, 2017).
“The Adventure of the Second William Wilson” originally appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part VII , ed. David Marcum (London: MX Publishing, 2017).
“The Adventure of the Aspen Papers” originally appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part I , ed. David Marcum (London: MX Publishing, 2015).
“For Want of a Sword” originally appeared in Holmes Away from Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus, Volume Two , ed. David Marcum (Manchester, NH: Belanger Books, LLC, 2016).
“The Adventure of the Smith-Mortimer Succession” originally appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part XII ed. David Marcum (London: MX Publishing, 2018).
“Capitol Murder” originally appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part X , ed. David Marcum (London: MX Publishing, 2018).
“An Adventure in Darkness” originally appeared in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells, Volume 1 , ed. Derrick Belanger and C. Edward Davis (Manchester, NH: Belanger Books, LLC, 2017).
“An Adventure in the Mid-Day Sun” originally appeared in Beyond Watson: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology of Stories NOT Told by Dr John H. Watson , ed. Derrick Belanger (Manchester, NH: Belanger Books LLC, 2016).
“The Adventure of the Star-Crossed Lovers” originally appeared in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon, Vol. 3 , ed. Derrick Belanger (Manchester, NH: Belanger Books LLC, 2018).
“A Case of Mistaken Identity” originally appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part VI , ed. David Marcum (London: MX Publishing, 2017).

A Note on the Text
Footnotes followed by (JHW) were supplied by Dr. John H. Watson. Footnotes followed by (DDV) were supplied by the editor.

The Adventure of the Missing Necklace
How would it have been if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? Who knows? How singular is life and how full of changes! How small a thing will ruin or save one!
—Guy de Maupassant “The Diamond Necklace”
I
Throughout the decades that I chronicled the cases of my friend and colleague, Mr Sherlock Holmes, his criticism never wavered. Indeed, upon looking back over the years, I can see how much his complaints had become a continual sticking point between us.
Take as an example the cold February evening in ’98. Holmes and I were sitting before a blazing fire whilst a steady rain pelted our windows.
“In your hands, Watson,” he observed yet again, “a story that should be edifying turns out to be merely diverting.”
I am afraid I rolled my eyes. I knew we had no intention of leaving our rooms as long as the downpour persisted. Yet my vision of a warm wool blanket and one of Mrs Hudson’s hot toddies was dashed when I realised that to Holmes our evening together translated into another opportunity to resurrect the same tired criticism of my writing that he had presented on so many previous occasions.
To be clear, I am not alluding to the annoying little side-comments he would make from time to time as in his complaint during our investigation of Wisteria Lodge that I told stories “wrong end foremost”. I am, in fact, referring to the much broader kind of dissatisfaction he regurgitated with undue regularity towards my entire literary approach.
In a nutshell, Sherlock Holmes thought my emotional nature undermined his intellectual accomplishments. For instance, at the start of the case in which I met my late wife Mary, he argued that tingeing accounts of his investigations with romanticism made about as much sense as working a love story into the fifth proposition of Euclid. And on our way to the Abbey Grange just a month before our current dust-up, he had complained about my love of the histrionic.
“You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy,” he said to me as the Kentish train pitched and swayed, “in order to dwell upon sensational details, which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.”
On a cold winter’s night like that which we were now experiencing, one might not expect terms like “