by David Marcum
Nicholas Utechin BSI joined The Sherlock Holmes Society of London in 1966, aged fourteen; ten years later he became Editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal - a position he held for thirty years. The year 1976 also saw the publication of two Holmes pastiches he co-wrote: The Earthquake Machine and Hellbirds. This is his first venture in the field since then. He is a Baker Street Irregular, an honorary senior member of the Sons of the the Copper Beeches scion society, a founding member of the John H. Watson Society, and has contributed extensively to Sherlockian scholarship over the decades. The fact that he is related to Basil Rathbone could have something to do with this madness. In another life, he was a senior producer and occasional presenter for BBC Radio in the field of current affairs. Now retired, he lives in Oxford, U.K., with his wife, Annie, follows the careers of their two sons with interest, and the lives of their two grandchildren with love. He believes he knows quite a lot about fine wine and silent films (meeting and interviewing Lillian Gish was something special,) and is lucky enough to own a Sidney Paget original (sadly not one for a Sherlock Holmes story.)
Daniel D. Victor, a Ph.D. in American literature, is a retired high school English teacher who taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District for forty-six years. His doctoral dissertation on little-known American author, David Graham Phillips, led to the creation of Victor’s first Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Seventh Bullet, in which Holmes investigates Phillips’ actual murder. Victor’s second novel, A Study in Synchronicity, is a two-stranded murder mystery, which features a Sherlock Holmes-like private eye. He is currently completing a trilogy called Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati. Each novel introduces Holmes to a different American author who actually passed through London at the turn of the century. In The Final Page of Baker Street, Holmes meets Raymond Chandler; in The Baron of Brede Place, Stephen Crane; in Seventeen Minutes to Baker Street, Mark Twain. Victor, who is also writing a novel about his early years as a teacher, lives with his wife in Los Angeles, California. They have two adult sons.
Marcia Wilson is a freelance researcher and illustrator who likes to work in a style compatible for the color blind and visually impaired. She is Canon-centric, and her first MX offering, You Buy Bones, uses the point-of-view of Scotland Yard to show the unique talents of Dr. Watson. She can be contacted at gravelgirty.deviantart.com
Vincent W. Wright has been a Sherlockian and member of The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis since 1997. He is the creator of a blog, Historical Sherlock, which is dedicated to the chronology of The Canon, and has written a column on that subject for his home scion’s newsletter since 2005. He lives in Indiana, and works for the federal government.
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