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NOTES FOR SCHOLARS
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT differences between this edition and Baring-Gould’s classic Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Baring-Gould emphasised the “chronology” of the stories—the dates on which the events recounted in the stories actually occurred—and devoted a significant portion of his notes to that topic. Sherlockian “chronologisation” is a complex science, and I have not intended to belittle the efforts of the chronologists by summarising and relegating their work to an appendix following the text. However, to point out all of the “clues” used by various chronologists in reaching their conclusions would have multiplied the notes exceedingly. Students of the techniques of devising a chronology are advised to read Andrew Jay Peck’s introduction to “The Date Being—?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data, available in an expanded and revised edition by Judge Peck and this editor.
There are at least three starting points for a modern textual analysis of each story: the Strand Magazine version, the original English book version, and the original American book version, which have surprising differences. Also important to any student of the text are the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, edited generally by Owen Dudley Edwards, and the Heritage (Limited Editions Club) edition of the Canon, edited by Edgar W. Smith. Both purport to present “definitive” text, the former with notes. My own version of the text relies most heavily on the English book text of the stories, under the theo
ry that these versions received the most careful review from the author. However, “careful” review is a relative term, and numerous textual problems exist. In my notes, I have indicated significant variations among the sources.
While an examination of the original manuscript of the story, to review changes made by the author before submission for publication, would be very valuable, of the 56 stories, only 37 manuscripts are extant, and all but 13 are in the hands of private collectors, unavailable to students. Five of the manuscripts have been published in facsimile, “The Priory School,” “The Dying Detective,” “The Lion’s Mane,” “Shoscombe Old Place,” and “The Six Napoleons.” Scholars have examined a few manuscripts in situ and published their notes, and I have taken advantage of those available resources. In an apparent scholarly “first,” I was also able to compare a typescript of the author’s manuscript of “The Six Napoleons” to the published version and note significant changes made after submission of the manuscript.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The evolution of the volumes has been a long one, and there are many who helped me along the way. My patient friends Alan Olding, Roger Johnson, Philip Weller, and Bill Hyder spent a great deal of time under very short deadlines correcting errors in the manuscript, but they are blameless for those that remain! Christopher Roden provided early discouraging words that led me to the right path, and he has been a friend ever since. Steven Doyle and Mark Gagen edited and published the Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, from which these volumes grew, and invested in the results when no one else was interested. Michael Dirda introduced me to my publisher and was “midwife” to these volumes—I hope that his hopes have been fulfilled.
My Sherlockian mentors Otto Penzler, Alan Olding, Peter Blau, Don Pollock, Nicholas Meyer, David Stuart Davies, Julie Rosenblatt, Chris Redmond, and Bernard Davies helped me in countless ways. Jerry Wachs, Al Rosenblatt, Catherine Cooke, Dick Sveum, Peter Calamai, Philip Weller, Hirayama Yuichi, Bill Barnes, Dan Stashower, Costa Rossakis, and Bob Katz, to mention only a few, have been generous with their friendship. Nicholas Utechin and especially Steve Rothman, editors of the world’s leading Sherlockian journals, have been immensely supportive of my work from the beginning. Kinsprit Susan Dahlinger kindly read parts of this book in draft and gave me critical insights. Jerry Margolin, the world’s greatest collector of original Sherlock Holmes art, was a great help with the illustrations, including loans of precious items. Mike Whelan generously took vacation time to read and correct the introduction and was always available for wise counsel and friendship. George Vanderburgh helped me get started with scans of relevant text, and Bill Cochran kindly made the work of Newt and Lillian Williams available to me. John Sohl and John Farrell, fellow members of the Goose Club of the Alpha Inn of Santa Monica first pointed me in scholarly directions. Countless other Sherlockians made contributions on research topics, which I have attempted to acknowledge in situ. My dear friend and occasional co-author Andy Peck gave general and constant support as well as specific suggestions.
This edition could not have been produced without the help of Ronald L. De Waal’s Universal Sherlock Holmes, Jack Tracy’s Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana, Steve Clarkson’s Canonical Compendium, and scores of other handbooks, reference works, indexes, and collections. Each of those essential reference works is the product of many, many hours of patient research and labour by pioneers who went largely unrewarded. My own work on the Holmes canon has made me bow down in admiration to those scholars who came before me, especially those who laboured before computers and such specialised reference works existed. This work is an attempt to stand on the shoulders of those giants.
The W. W. Norton team has been incredible. My editor Robert Weil’s immediate enthusiasm for the project, thoughtful criticisms, careful pruning, and constant cheerleading gave the work its present shape. It was a delight (and relief) to find that Bob so closely shared my vision for these volumes. Janet Byrne and Patricia Chui got down into the trenches of the notes and made an enormous contribution, constantly suggesting new topics to annotate and then doing the initial spade work. Other Norton colleagues—Brendan Curry and Tom Mayer, who shepherded the materials through publication; Julia Druskin, production manager, who unblinkingly handled the daunting task of reproducing hundreds of illustrations; Jo Anne Metsch, who created the stunning design of both volumes; Chin-Yee Lai, who brilliantly designed the cover; Eleen Cheungy, who painstakingly oversaw the design of the jackets; Nancy Palmquist, managing editor; Bill Rusin, sales director—all earned my immense gratitude and admiration. Louise Brockett and Rachel Salzman brought unbounded energy to the publicity and promotion of the project. Special thanks to Drake McFeely, president, and Jeannie Luciano, publisher, whose belief in the project made it all possible.
Megan Underwood Beatie, Camille McDuffie, and Lynn Goldberg, at Goldberg McDuffie & Co., put immense effort and great inspiration into finding ways to bring this work to the attention of readers and reviewers and made the publicity process memorable, enjoyable, and rewarding for a first-timer.
My law partner, Bob Kopple, has been an unstinting cheerleader for the entire project from the beginning. My agent, Don Maass, was tireless and undaunted by numerous obstacles. My friend and attorney Jonathan Kirsch, who combines a brilliant law career with an astonishing quantity of biblical scholarship, not only provided essential help but is my constant rôle model.
My dear friend Barbara Roisman Cooper put in countless hours checking and correcting countless footnotes, and she has earned my deepest gratitude. Her husband, Marty, also contributed sage advice about publicity and put up with numerous Sherlockian events. Bob and Mallory Kroner, and Mike and Donna Sedgwick all warmed me with their friendship and smiled tolerantly at my constant ramblings on Sherlock Holmes.
My family has been understanding to a fault, and my children, Matt, Wendy, Stacy, Evan, and Amanda, have given me uncritical love. My parents, Jack and Lenore, taught me to love books and people; sadly, neither survived to see this work published.
Lastly, and most of all, the woman, my beloved wife, Sharon: She gave me the impetus to begin this work; she gave me her own time, listening, reading, collating, checking, proofreading, and commenting; she allowed me to steal hundreds of weekend and evening hours from her and our family; and she gave me her unstinting friendship and love throughout. Without her, this work would not exist.
ALSO BY LESLIE S. KLINGER
The Life and Times of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, M.D., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Other Notable Personages
“The Date Being?”—A Compendium of Chronological Data (with Andrew Jay Peck)
The Adventure of the Wooden Box
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES REFERENCE LIBRARY:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet
The Hound of the Basekervilles
Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of Four
The Valley of Fear
His Last Bow (forthcoming)
Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (forthcoming)
Leslie S. Klinger is the editor of the Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, a nine-volume scholarly edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories published by Gasogene Press. The Reference Library quotes extensively from published Sherlockian criticism and provides detailed reviews of the scholarly literature.
This book is published by arrangement with Wessex Press, LLC.
Copyright © 2006 by Leslie S. Klinger
Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele reproduced with permission of the Eastern Press.
Grateful acknowledgment to the Estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle for permission to publish The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, protected by copyright in the United States of America.
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