Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 4/2/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houxe!drutx!cwh From: cwh@drutx.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Quick Watson + Cannons hand grenades etc Message-ID: <1194@drutx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 14:46:39 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.1194 Posted: Mon Oct 1 14:46:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:08:34 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 23 "After rejecting all impossibilities, the remaining possibility, however improbable, must be the correct one." - I paraphrase. Some time ago I ran across a marvelous little monogram on the books owned by the famous detective. Sorry I can't look up the title - my copy is in New York State. The author is a woman. Doyle placed delicious little hints here and there about certain books - mostly very * rare books that Holmes had in his otherwise marvelous collection. They included centuries- old copies of Italian poetry, etc. The person who wrote the monogram did a fair amount of detective work on her own. The monogram is much fun reading - can anyone who knows, please post the title, author, etc? As I recall, all the references that Doyle makes are to actual books. Contrast this with the fascination with pseudo-biblia that the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos and his followers enjoyed. I suspect that at least one professor of graduate studies was taken in with long scholarly descriptions of a certain tome by one Abdul 'al Hazrad - mine was at any rate. I refer to the "Necronomicon". from the painstakingly crafted Gothic interior of WB2YHE Regards - Carl