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From: cwh@drutx.UUCP
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Subject: Quick Watson + Cannons hand grenades etc
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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 14:46:39 EDT
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"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