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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	25 octobre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781787054677
Langue	English

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THE
LITERARY ADVENTURES
OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
A COLLECTION OF SHORT SKETCHES
VOLUME TWO
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
© 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, in full or in part, may be made without express prior written permission from the publisher.
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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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 Smith-Mortimer Succession
The famous Smith-Mortimer succession case comes also within this period [1894].
—Dr John H. Watson
“The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”
No detective, not even an amateur, wants to admit that he has been the victim of thieves. And yet that was precisely the situation in which I found myself after moving back to Baker Street in May of 1894, some two weeks after the dramatic return from the dead of my friend and colleague, Mr Sherlock Holmes.
By now the whole world knows the astounding story of how Holmes had appeared to plunge to his death at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland on 4 May 1891, how he had spent the next three years travelling incognito, and how he had finally reappeared in London in the spring of ’94 to solve the murder of one Ronald Adair. Though today such facts are readily available, it must be remembered that for reasons never made entirely clear to me, Holmes prohibited my publishing an account of the case for some ten years following his resurrection.
Adhering to Holmes’s request, I waited patiently until the autumn of ’03—actually, a year prior to the end of his self-proclaimed moratorium—when he finally allowed me to produce the sketch I entitled “The Empty House”, the narrative that detailed Holmes’s so-called “hiatus”.
Though he had made it quite clear that my account was not to be published for a decade, I stood firm about recording the facts as soon as Holmes reported them to me—that is, in April of ’94. Only by noting the details while they were still fresh in my mind, I told him, would I be able to fulfil the role of faithful Boswell that he had attributed to me.
To that end, I maintained a notebook in which I set down the salient features of the Reichenbach affair as soon as Holmes provided them to me. I kept the thin volume in a drawer of the writing desk in our sitting room, and it was the purloining of the notebook in question that placed me in the predicament to which I referred at the start of this narrative.
I discovered the theft one balmy afternoon in late May. It happened this way. Upon returning from my surgery, I encountered the perfect opportunity to write. There was no Sherlock Holmes to be found, and an hour yet remained before Mrs Hudson