by June Thomson
Alternatively, Watson may be referring to the arched brick soffit, or inner curve, to the semi-circular head of the window opening.
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As the bibliography of Sherlock Holmes is so extensive, only principal sources are quoted. For all other unattributed sources within the book, readers are referred either to the complete annotated edition of the Holmes’ novels and short stories, edited by William S. Baring-Gould, or to D. Martin Dakin’s A Sherlock Holmes Commentary.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I should like to thank the following people for their generous help with the research for this book: H. M. Brodie, Archivist of Blackheath Football Club; Catherine Cooke, Curator of the Sherlock Holmes’ Collection at Marylebone Library who also read the manuscript and gave invaluable advice; Julia Sheppard, Archivist of the Contemporary Archives Centre at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; and Geoffrey Yeo, former head of the Archives Department at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
I also thank Professor B. J. Rahn for her very special assistance, and Rita and Malcolm de Selincourt for their help with the binomial theorem.
Finally, I should like to pay tribute to the memory of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the canon and creator of those two immortal characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson MD, without whom this book could not have been written.
About the Author
JUNE THOMSON, a former teacher, has published over thirty novels, twenty of which feature her series detective Inspector Jack Finch and his sergeant, Tom Boyce. She has also written six pastiche collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Her books have been translated into many languages. June Thomson lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
By June Thomson
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION
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Holmes and Watson
The Secret Documents of Sherlock Holmes
The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
THE JACK FINCH MYSTERIES
Going Home
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