Top Ten Reasons Sherlock Holmes Should Join the Bootmakers
Top Ten Reasons Sherlock Holmes Should Join the Bootmakers is a list written by Doug Elliott and published in the Canadian Holmes (Vol. 25 No. 4, Summer 2002).
Top Ten
TOP TEN REASONS SHERLOCK HOLMES SHOULD JOIN THE BOOTMAKERS
10. We can finally find out what happened to that boot.
9. Can beat Barbara Rusch in the quiz without even reading the story.
8. Second choice was the Diogenes Club.
7. No need to send out meeting notices. He will deduce where the meeting is.
6. A ready-made group of people he can complain to about Watson's writing.
5. We get to see if he looks more like Walter Paget, Basil Rathbone or Michael Caine.
4. Gets to meet George Vanderburgh and finally find a publisher for The Whole Art of Detection.
3. Possible opportunity for him to have strong words with that Canadian actor chap, Frewer.
2. He'll save money: membership rates keep going up for the rest of us, but for Holmes it's always $18.95.
And the number 1 reason sherlock Holmes should join the Bootmakers:
"Elementary, my dear Meyers, elementary!"
Doug Elliott M.Bt. BSI
At the Annual Dinner of The Bootmakers of Toronto January, 2002
- Article courtesy The Bootmakers of Toronto.
