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Sayers on Holmes: Essays
& Fiction on Sherlock Holmes
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by Dorothy L. Sayers
introduction by Alzina Stone Dale
ISBN 1-887726-08-X,
August 2001, 54 pages, trade paper
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Sayers on Holmes
collects the writings of Dorothy L. Sayers on the subject of
Sherlock Holmes. In "Sherlock Holmes and His
Influence," Sayers examines how the Sherlock Holmes
stories affected the genre of detective fiction. In "The
Dates in 'The Red-Headed League'" she discusses the
contradictory dates in the Holmes story. In -- Oxford or
Cambridge -- and speculates on a birth year for Holmes.
"Dr. Watson's Christian Name" represents an effort
by Sayers to solve the problem that Watson is called by
different first names in different Holmesian stories.
"Dr. Watson, Widower," is concerned with the
speculation on Dr. Watson's possible multiple marriages. In
addition, published here for the first time is the script she
wrote for a radio production, "A Tribute to Sherlock
Holmes on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday," in which
the young Lord Peter Wimsey consults Sherlock Holmes.
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This book will give great
pleasure to readers of Conan Doyle and Dorothy L. Sayers. It
contains one special delight: an unpublished story in which
Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey are brought together --
not to be missed!
-- Barbara Reynolds, author of Dorothy L. Sayers:
Her Life and Soul, editor of The Letters of Dorothy L.
Sayers.
How rewarding to unite Sayers' four Sherlockian studies with
her incisive pages on the position of Holmes in detective
fiction! How splendid to bring into print for the first time
her delightful Wimseyan and whimsical tribute to Holmes -- the
last Lord Peter story she ever wrote! Alzina Stone Dale's
discerning Introduction binds these writings firmly together
and it was a brilliant thought to complete this invaluable
volume with Joe R. Christopher's annotated listing of Sayers'
works.
-- Christopher Dean, Chairman, The Dorothy L. Sayers
Society
Sayers on Holmes is a fine celebration of the happy
conjunction of the two writers who did most to move
sensational fiction to a plane where nowadays the books that
have followed their example can be enjoyed with profit by even
the most fastidious of readers.
-- H.R.F. Keating, crime novelist and critic, Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature and holder of the George N.
Dove Award for the Serious Study of Mystery Fiction
Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the earliest and best of those
who invented and played the grand game of Sherlockian
scholarship, and it is nice indeed to have her essays on
Sherlock Holmes in print again. It is even nicer to have
available for the first time the script she wrote for Lord
Peter Wimsey's comments for the centenary birthday tribute to
Holmes broadcast by the BBC in 1954.
-- Peter E. Blau, geologist and journalist, and the
secretary ("Simpson") of The Baker Street
Irregulars.
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