Holmesian studies sig history
<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=22 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="144000d2egerdp.gif"> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=145 BGCOLOR="#333399" TEXT="#080000" background="143a2c00erkjzj.gif"> <div> <B>My personal interest in Holmes</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><B> I showed such interest in the Sherlock Holmes stories that by Christmas 1964 my parents bought me </B><I><B>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</B></I><B>, what we in "the game" call</B><I><B> The Canon</B></I><B>. I later found and enjoyed what I call the deuterocanonical stories in Arthur Conan Doyle's son's book, </B><I><B>the Exploits of Sherlock Holmes</B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Verdana" ><B>.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B> My favorite non-canonical story would have to be "The Greatest Detective of All Time" by Ralph Roberts in which he time travels. </B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=458 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Holmesian Studies SIG History</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1f643840.jpg" border=0 width="579" height="132" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="623" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="615"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="615" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 24 WIDTH="610"><div> <A HREF="http://untilheaven.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://untilheaven.com"><U><B>index.htm</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#663399" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B></FONT></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="610"><div> <A HREF="http://untilheaven.com/id80.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://untilheaven.com/id80.htm"><U><B>Holmesian studies sig</B></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=4 WIDTH="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="610"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="610" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 1603 ><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1067" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="1059"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1059" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="614"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="614" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="238"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="238" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="205"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="205" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="614"><div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" ><B> </B></FONT><B>Our History</B> </div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B>The Holmesian Studies SIG began in June 1988 after the Holmes centennial revived my interest. I discovered that the former such special interest group of American Mensa had ended mysteriously "because of lack of interest." </B></FONT></div> <div> <B> There was interest however and by January 1995 we were recognized by the Baker </B><B>Street Irregulars as an official scion. </B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=4 WIDTH="238"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="238" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="205"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="205" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="205"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="138" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="205" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="614"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="614" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="205"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="205" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 43 WIDTH="614"><div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> Our newsletter</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><I>The Norbury Chronicle</I><I> </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B>has featured such interesting items as:</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="205"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="43" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="205" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="1059"><div> <B>"100 Years Ago", "Porlock's Puzzles", "Mr. E.'s Mysteries", "The Bits</B></div> <div> <B> Watson Doesn't </B><B>Tell Us" comics by Cathy Childs</B><B>, "Murders in the </B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 1232 WIDTH="1059"><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="609" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="605"><div> <B>Bible", contests, reviews, ...</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 28 WIDTH="605"><div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> INDEX</B></FONT></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 1153 WIDTH="605"><div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 1"><U><B>issue 1</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(June '88) </FONT></div> <div> Holmesian Studies Group Recognized, 100 years ago, 75 Years Ago, letters, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" issue 2"><U><B> issue 2</B></U></A><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" issue 2"><U><B> </B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > (Oct. '88) </FONT></div> <div> Holmes Murdered Hundreds!, "Time Travel Made Easy" by James Watson, Jr., letters, poetry, 100 Years Ago, 75 Years Ago, From the Good Old Index, classified GOTO </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="issue_3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 3"><U><B>issue 3</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > (Jan. '89)</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > Ripper Case Closed, Porlock's Puzzles (dancing men cipher), letters, classifieds</FONT><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 4"><U><B>issue 4</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Apr. '89)</FONT></div> <div> Sarasate Remembered,Giant Rat contest, 100 Years Ago, Porlock's Puzzle, letters, books (Night of the Ripper, Two Mrs.Grenvilles, Lizzie, Blood and Orchids, Executioner's Song, The Benson Murder Case, The Case of the Postponed Murder, The Circular Staircase, A Family Affair, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Sleeping Murder, Whose Body), Columbo Is Back, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 5"><U><B>issue 5</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > (Aug. '89)</FONT></div> <div> Martha Porter dead, Sherlockian Tabloid, Porlock's Puzzles, letters, 100 Years Ago, 75 Years Ago, In Tibet, Indexing, The <I>Wings of Dawn</I> (part 1), classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 6"><U><B>issue 6</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > (Nov. '89)</FONT></div> <div> new books (<I>Sherlock Holmes Wordsearch, London by Gaslight, Immortal Sleuth, Good Old Index, The Game Is Afoot, For the Sake of the Game, the Twenty-second Man</I>), old tales, letters</div> <bR> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 7"><U><B>issue 7</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(May '90)</FONT></div> <div> new illustrator, Giant Rat Contest to End, letters, London guide, Porlock Puzzle (the Fr. Sauniere mystery), <I>The Wings of Dawn</I> (part 3), The Ize Have It, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 8"><U><B>issue 8</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Oct. '90)</FONT></div> <div> 'Orrible Murder, Northern Musgraves, letters, The Bits Watson Doesn't Tell Us, 100 Years Ago, 75 Years Ago, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 9"><U><B>issue 9</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > (Apr. '91) </FONT></div> <div> The Final Problem, The Bits Watson Doesn't Tell Us, letters, Porlock's Puzzles, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 10"><U><B>issue 10</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Nov. '91)</FONT></div> <div> Granada, Christmas with Holmes and Watson, Instant Recall on Holmes, 100 Years Ago, 75 Years Ago, Mr. E.'s Mysteries, letters, Detection in the Bible, books, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 11"><U><B>issue 11</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > (Apr. '92)</FONT></div> <div> Palmer, On the Telly, Wild Family coat-of-arms, letters, Porlock's Puzzles, books, 100 Years Ago, classifieds</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 12"><U><B>issue 12</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Jan. '93)</FONT></div> <div> collectibles, letters, 100 Years Ago, 75 Years Ago, Lot No. 249, Ferrier Memorial, Victorian Criminology,<I> Holmes Review</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 13"><U><B>issue 13</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Fall '93)</FONT></div> <div> 100 Years Ago, The Clue of the Dusty Hat, More Moriarties, letters, contest, books, classifieds (contest, <I>A Sherlock Holmes Handbook</I>, <I>The Sherlock Holmes ABC Book</I>,<I> An Illustrated Introduction to the Great Detective</I>)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 14"><U><B>issue 14</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Fall '94) letters</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 15"><U><B>issue 15</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >(Spring '95) Canonical abbreviations (4- and 2-letter), BSI recognition, On the Telly, 100 Years Ago</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 16"><U><B>issue 16</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT>letters, one (!) character abbreviations, Granada TV series, 100 Years Ago, Ciphering, El Holmes, books (<I>Strange Crimes at Sea</I>, <I>Deadly Encounters</I>, <I>The Ladykiller</I>, <I>The Great Yarmouth Murder, Th True Life of Sweeney Todd, Etched in Arsenic, Murder by Persons Unknown</I>), classifieds (<I>Sherlock Holmes in: The Dreaming Detective</I>, <I>Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Ancient Gods</I>)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 17"><U><B>issue 17</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > SIG News, Scions, Porlock's Puzzles (ciphers), gifts? (puzzles, Baker St. Brigade series, classifieds (The Elementary Methods of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Origins of Psychology)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 18 films, Cornish Horror, Mr. E's Mysteries, letters: Pam McAllister, Femme Fatales, Cort Reynolds, Alex Blackwell, Ken Pierce; crossword, Doyle, West End Game</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="1059"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1059" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="1059"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1059" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1603" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="615"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="615" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="615"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="615" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="615"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="615" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 176 WIDTH="615"><bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>