by David Marcum
Sidney Paget (1860-1908), a few of whose illustrations are used within this anthology, was born in London, and like his two older brothers, became a famed illustrator and painter. He completed over three-hundred-and-fifty drawings for the Sherlock Holmes stories first published in The Strand magazine, defining Holmes’s image forever after in the public mind.
Robert Perret is a writer, librarian, and devout Sherlockian living on the Palouse. His Sherlockian publications include “The Canaries of Clee Hills Mine” in An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, “For King and Country” in The Science of Deduction, “How Hope Learned the Trick” in NonBinary Review, and “A Case of Juris Imprudence” in Holmes Away From Home. He considers himself to be a pan-Sherlockian and a one-man scion out on the lonely moors of Idaho. Robert has recently authored a yet unpublished scholarly article tentatively entitled “A Study in Scholarship: The Case of the Baker Street Journal’. More information is available at www.robertperret.com.
Steven Rothman BSI, has been the editor of The Baker Street Journal since 2000. He edited The Standard Doyle Company: Christopher Morley on Sherlock Holmes (1990) and “A Remarkable Mixture”: Award-Winning Articles from The Baker Street Journal (2008). Other publications include To Keep the Memory Green: Reflections on the Life of Richard Lancelyn Green 1953–2004 (2007, co-edited with Nicholas Utechin), and Out of the Abyss: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Empty House” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014, co-edited with Robert Katz and Andrew Solberg). He is invested in the Baker Street Irregulars as “The Valley of Fear.”
Geri Schear is a novelist and short story writer. Her work has been published in literary journals in the U.S. and Ireland. Her first novel, A Biased Judgement: The Diaries of Sherlock Holmes 1897 was released to critical acclaim in 2014. The sequel, Sherlock Holmes and the Other Woman was published in 2015, and Return to Reichenbach in 2016. She lives in Kells, Ireland.
S. Subramanian is a retired professor of Economics from Chennai, India. Apart from a small book titled Economic Offences: A Compendium of Crimes in Prose and Verse (Oxford University Press Delhi, 2012), his Holmes pastiches are the only serious things he has written. His other work runs largely to whimsical stuff on fuzzy logic and social measurement, on which he writes with much precision and little understanding, being an economist. He is otherwise mainly harmless, as his wife and daughter might concede with a little persuasion
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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 currently writes the ongoing series Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati.