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	''Sherlock Holmes'' is ~~an article~~ published in [[The Times]] on 29 june 1934.		''Sherlock Holmes'' is a review of "'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes', by Vincent Starett" published in [[The Times]] on 29 june 1934.

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	[[File:the-times-1934-06-29-p10-sherlock-holmes.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|right\|[[The Times]] (29 june 1934, p. 10)]]		[[File:the-times-1934-06-29-p10-sherlock-holmes.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|right\|[[The Times]] (29 june 1934, p. 10)]]

	* THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. By VINCENT ~~STRARRETT~~. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d. net.)		* THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. By VINCENT STARRETT. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d. net.)

	It was no doubt poetic justice that [[Sherlock Holmes]] should be made in his turn the subject of one of those deductive analyses which he used to apply to his criminal victims. His methods, his life, the documents in which his career is related, his friend and biographer, [[Dr. Watson]], have all been investigated and made the topic of mock-scientific hypotheses, till it might almost seem as if a good joke were being run to death.		It was no doubt poetic justice that [[Sherlock Holmes]] should be made in his turn the subject of one of those deductive analyses which he used to apply to his criminal victims. His methods, his life, the documents in which his career is related, his friend and biographer, [[Dr. Watson]], have all been investigated and made the topic of mock-scientific hypotheses, till it might almost seem as if a good joke were being run to death.

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''Sherlock Holmes'' is an article published in [[The Times]] on 29 june 1934.

== Review ==
[[File:the-times-1934-06-29-p10-sherlock-holmes.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Times]] (29 june 1934, p. 10)]]

* THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. By VINCENT STRARRETT. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d. net.)

It was no doubt poetic justice that [[Sherlock Holmes]] should be made in his turn the subject of one of those deductive analyses which he used to apply to his criminal victims. His methods, his life, the documents in which his career is related, his friend and biographer, [[Dr. Watson]], have all been investigated and made the topic of mock-scientific hypotheses, till it might almost seem as if a good joke were being run to death.

The latest book of the kind, however, by an American author, has the advantage of not being written entirely as burlesque. Mr. Starrett, though his record of [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]]'s "private life" has been largely composed with his tongue in his cheek, also considers in his little treatise the true origins of the world's most celebrated detective in the experience and fantasy of his creator. One doctor, [[Joseph Bell]] of Edinburgh, gave Holmes a living original; and another, [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]], having a practice that left too much leisure on his hands, filled the vacant hours with imaginations of which he never quite came to realize the value himself, and endowed popular fiction with a character that would not die, even when [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Doyle]] tried to kill him.

Mr. Starrett has some interesting things to recall about the first editions of the earliest [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories; he gives a replica of the wrapper of the rare first appearance of the rare first appearance of "[[A Study in Scarlet]]" (in [[Beeton's Christmas Annual]] of 1887), with what is even more entertaining, the first picture of [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] that was ever made, as an illustration to the same publication — and a very amusing piece of whiskered Victorian flamboyancy it is. Further, Mr. Starrett goes into the baffling problem whether the house in which Holmes lived in Baker Street can be identified, a matter in which another American investigator made discoveries that disconcerted [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]] when he was informed of them; for he told the discoverer, it seems, that "he did not believe he had ever been in Baker Street in his life." Best of all, perhaps, is Mr. Starrett's attempt to explain how (especially for an American reader) the [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] stories have come to stand for the spirit of Victorian London, with its foggy mysteriousness and picturesque contrasts of comfort and squalor. Quoting yet another critic of his own nation, he declares that "[[Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock]] is he who answers when you ask the air, Who lives there, I wonder? What is the story behind that drawn blind in London?" He could hardly have summed up the enchantment better.

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