Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site hyper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!hyper!brust From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes stories Message-ID: <223@hyper.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 19:32:57 EDT Article-I.D.: hyper.223 Posted: Wed Jul 3 19:32:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:13:08 EDT References: <2406@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls., Mn. Lines: 23 > From: crash!bnw@SDCSVAX.ARPA > > >After all, if you go and look in your bookstore again, you will find > >millions and millions of Sherlock Holmes stories not written by > >Arthur Canon Doyle. . . > > Arthur Conan Doyle did not write any Sherlock Holmes stories. > Doyle was a charlatan who tricked Dr. Watson and published the accounts > of Holmes' cases under his own name. > But SF-Lovers is not the proper venue for that discussion. > /Bruce N. Wheelock/ > arpanet: crash!bnw@ucsd > uucp: {ihnp4, cbosgd, sdcsvax, noscvax}!crash!bnw I hate to disagree with you, Bruce, but there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Doyle was a faithful literary agent, and that the publisher (the Strand, was it) made the errors, and Watson, who always did prefer to remain in the background, insisted that it not be corrected. -- SKZB