Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
Author William S. Baring-Gould
Country United States
Language English
Genre Mystery novels
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective is a 1962 novel by William S. Baring-Gould. The book purports to be a biography of Sherlock Holmes.[1]

Some aspects of the book were loosely based on the life of Baring-Gould's paternal grandfather, Sabine Baring-Gould.[2]

Five years later, Baring-Gould would go on to publish an Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which would be considered definitive,[3][4] at least until Leslie S. Klinger published The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes in 2004–2005.[5][6] Baring-Gould used many biography details he invented in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street for his annotated volumes.[4]

Details established by Baring-Gould, such as Professor Moriarty being Holmes' childhood tutor,[7] that Holmes was once an actor [8], and the continuing affair with Irene Adler leading up to the birth of a son,[9] have continued to be a part of The Great Game and have been used in other Sherlockian pastiche.[7] The book also offers one of the earliest versions of Sherlock Holmes meeting Jack the Ripper.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780520215382.
  2. ↑ Redmond, Chistopher (2009). Sherlock Holmes Handbook (Second Edition). Dundurn. p. 180. ISBN 9781770705920.
  3. ↑ Hickling, Alfred (December 3, 2004). "A four-pipe poseur". The Guardian. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Redmond, Chistopher (2009). Sherlock Holmes Handbook (Second Edition). Dundurn. p. 81. ISBN 9781770705920.
  5. ↑ Weingarten, Marc (December 30, 2004). "Case of the Lawyer With a Sherlock Holmes Bent". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ Redmond, Chistopher (2009). Sherlock Holmes Handbook (Second Edition). Dundurn. p. 83. ISBN 9781770705920.
  7. 1 2 Allen Eyles (1986). Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration. Harper & Row. pp. 105–106. ISBN 0-06-015620-1.
  8. ↑ Greenberg, Martin; Lellenberg, John L.; Stashower, Daniel (2009). Sherlock Holmes in America. Skyhorse Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 9781602399341.
  9. ↑ Redmond, Christopher (2002). In Bed With Sherlock Holmes: Sexual Elements in Arthur Conan Doyle's Stories of the great Detective. Dundurn. p. 57. ISBN 9781770700376.
  10. ↑ Doyle, Steven; Crowder, David A. (2010). Sherlock Holmes For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 239. ISBN 9780470484449.
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