Canadian Holmes 2024

Canadian Holmes, Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto

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Volume 47 Number 1 – Winter 2023/2024
  • Traces of Bootprints – by JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window by Barbara Rusch
  • The Failures of the Great Detective: Chinese Fan Fiction for Sherlock Holmes in the Early 20th Century by Brian Wang
  • The “Agony Column” in Victorian Culture and in the Sherlockian Canon by Donny Zaldin
  • Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mutineers by Dean Jobb
  • The Other S.H. by Bruce Harris
  • Inspector Stanley Hopkins by Jim Ballinger
  • Conan Doyle’s other work for The Strand Magazine by Mark Jones
  • “Holmes gave me a brief review”
  • Bootmakers’ Diary by Bruce D. Aikin and David Sanders

Volume 47 Number 2 – Spring 2024
  • Traces of Bootprints – by JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window by Barbara Rusch
  • Sherlock Holmes in Translation: a brief look at The Blood-Stained Wall by Peggy MacFarlane
  • Founder of that great emporium by Christopher Redmond
  • Mummy’s the Word: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Influence on the Horror Genre by Nancy Holder
  • Why I Don’t Like The Three Students by Rich Krisciunas
  • ACD’s Baker Street dozen by Mark Alberstat
  • Hunted or Hunter?: Watson’s Surreptitious Diagnosis by Robert Katz
  • The Story of the Reichenbach Falls by John Linsenmeyer
  • Conan Doyle’s other work for The Strand Magazine by Mark Jones
  • Strictly Personal by Jim Ballinger
  • “Holmes gave me a brief review”
  • Bootmakers’ Diary

Volume 47 Number 3 – Summer 2024
  • Traces of Bootprints – by JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window – by Barbara Rusch
  • A bespectacled caseophile serpent: The Origins of “The Speckled Band” by Daniel L. Friedman and Eugene B. Friedman
  • To the forgotten Hero/Heroine. Maybe neither. by John Gehan
  • The Circumcision of Sherlock Holmes by Nawazali A. Jiwa
  • That Murky Graveyard, The River Thames by Kelvin Jones
  • Letter to the Editors by Jim Ballinger
  • The Birth of the Bootmakers by Cameron Hollyer
  • Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Chairs by Sonia Fetherston
  • The Problem of the Bootmakers’ Motto by Don Roebuck
  • Conan Doyle’s other work for The Strand Magazine by Mark Jones
  • “Holmes gave me a brief review”
  • Bootmakers’ Diary

Volume 47 Number 4 – Fall 2024
  • Traces of Bootprints – by JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window – by Barbara Rusch
  • The Scarlet Claw, Sherlock Holmes in Canada? by John Gehan
  • What do I get for Landing on Free Parking? by Steve Mason
  • The Irish, The Valley and The Man with No Face by Donald A. Redmond
  • Letter to the Editors by Don Roebuck
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, Candidate for Parliament by Ron Levitsky
  • The Adventure of the Missing Mycroft Holmes by G. Benjamin White
  • It’s Baritsu NOT Bartitsu — On the Sherlock Holmes Style of Martial Arts by Derrick Belanger
  • A Toast to Watson’s Second Wife by Erica Fair
  • Conan Doyle’s non-Sherlockian works in The Strand Magazine by Mark Jones
  • David Stuart Davies Remembered (1946-2024) by Charles Prepolec

If you have thoughts or comments about Canadian Holmes, please e-mail Mark Alberstat.