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Bertram Fletcher Robinson Was he the true authorof The Hound of the Baskervilles?by Thierry Saint-Joanis • On the Trailof Arthur Conan Doyle:An Illustrated Devon Tourby Brian W. Pughand Paul R. Spiring(Book Guild, 2008) • “Empty House” puzzle10 points for each correct answer • That is the question... • One Moriarty hides another...
Today in Singapore A life-size investigationA Study in Red in Bugis
Inspired by the Japanese television series Miss Sherlock • Quiz 2026 - No. 87 • “Empty House” puzzle6 points for the correct answer • He's a liar, my dear Watson!... • Harry T. Morey • Tony Steedman • Jean-Baptiste Greuze
John Noble
Comics The Hound of the Whiskervillesin Picsou Magazine No. 596 • The original 1960 version • “Empty House” puzzle3 points for the correct answer • The Case of Page Turner... • Václav Voska
Breaking news!It is 10 p.m. and the arrival of new documents in the investigation into Sherlock Holmes's secretaries requires postponing the articles planned for this issue, because previously unseen material must be added to the file. The next instalment of our summer series on the secretaries will therefore appear in a day or two.For now, we are quickly remaking the front page with current news.The game's afoot!
Quiz 2026 - No. 85 • “Empty House” puzzle4 points for each correct answer • Sherlock Holmes's Holidays... • Maria de Medeiros • Jessie Matthews • Roberta Haynes • Jill St John • Charlie Hall • William-Adolphe Bouguereau • Andrea Palladio • Henri Lanos
The Buffalo News, October 11, 1980, page 21Sherlock Holmes still has cases to solveBy Philip Revzin
InvestigationSherlock Holmes's secretariesfrom 1975 to 1982by Thierry Saint-JoanisThanks to Alexis Barquin and his archives of the British press • An unusual job in Baker Streetby Gordon E. Rowley in 1976 • Bucks Free Press, 1980, 11, 07, page 33Evening Despatch, 1980, 10, 31, page 28Holmes's assistant is always busyby Margaret Stevenson • The secretary appears on television • Quiz 2026 - No. 84 • “Empty House” puzzle5 points for each correct answer • Elementary, that's... Two! Hello... • William Rushton • Christian Slater • Josephine Tewson • Andre Van Gyseghem • Héléna Manson
It is as though Bazlinton, aged 72,had accumulated old love letters.
InvestigationSherlock Holmes’s secretariesfrom 1975 to 1982by Thierry Saint-Joanis • 5 - Chris Bazlinton: 1975 to 1982 • The strange story of Sherlock Holmes’sreal-life secretaryby C. T. Scott • Quiz 2026 - no. 83 • “Empty House” Puzzle5 points for each correct answer • Clip-clop, clip-clop, here comes... Averell? • Rachel Hurd-Wood • Thomas Sydney Blakeney • Julian Fellowes • Anthony Valentine
Read in Pravda, in 1975
InvestigationSherlock Holmes’s secretariesfrom 1973 to 1975by Thierry Saint-Joanis • 4 - Lesley Whitson: 1973 to 1975 • Read in The Sherlock Holmes Journal, winter 1973 • Read in The Baker Street Journal, March 1975 • Read in The Journal, 27 August 1974 – Page 6 • Read, among others, in...Hull Daily Mail, 5 August 1974, page 5Evening Telegraph, 24 August 1974, page 10Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 1 November 1974, page 9 • Quiz 2026 - no. 82 • “Empty House” Puzzle3 points for the correct answer • I couldn’t have put it better myself... • Stewart Granger • Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen
3 - Miss Hutton & Mister Jones:1971 to 1973
InvestigationSherlock Holmes’s secretariesfrom 1947 to 1973by Thierry Saint-Joanis • 1 - Samuel Morton: 1947 to 1951 • 2 - John Greaves: 1951 to 1957 • Quiz 2026 - no. 81 • “Empty House” Puzzle3 points for the correct answer • No fire here!... • Thomas Penson De Quincey • And also...
InvestigationWho were Sherlock Holmes’ssecretaries?by Thierry Saint-Joanis
Quiz 2026 - no. 80 • “Empty House” Puzzle3 points for the correct answer • The cat that... fiddles! • Francis Ford • Hermann Speelmans • Colin Campbell
Letters to Sherlock Holmes (1985)The mail received at 221Bcompiled by Richard Lancelyn Green
The strange caseof the Paris telephone directory Chapter 259 of the president’s memoirs... • Quiz 2026 - no. 79 • “Empty House” Puzzle3 points for the correct answer • The gentleman burglar... • Charles Macaulay • Roger Emerson Garris
A project for USA NetworkSherlock’s Secretary______Will the letters addressed to Sherlock Holmesbecome the subject of a television series?
An address that eventuallybegan receiving mail • Quiz 2026 - no. 78 • “Special Eclipse” Puzzle5 points for each correct answer • Henry Reuterdahl • Peter Woodthorpe
AdaptationBack in the Sherlockian universe in 2013Alexander Adabashyanby Oksana Shishkina-Korolenko
Quiz 2026 - no. 77 • “Empty House” Puzzle3 points for each correct answer • Obstruction of Justice! • Henry Lloyd-Hughes • Sadi Carnot
AdaptationBarrymore in the 1981 Russian "Hound"Alexander Adabashyanby Oksana Shishkina-Korolenko
Quiz 2026 - no. 76 • “Mystery” Puzzle5 points for a correct answer-50 for a wrong answer • The Lamar case... • James O'Neill • Terence Christopher Rigby
PastichesJean Ray and Harry DicksonThe American Sherlock Holmes4/4by Pierre-André Sauvageot
SSHFThe 221st day of 2026Celebration at the club museum • Quiz 2026 - No. 75 • SpecialAnnual John H Watson Canonical Treasure Hunt2 points for each correct answer • Bread-and-butter, my dear... • Sir John Bernard Partridge • Peter Madden
PastichesJean Ray and Harry DicksonThe American Sherlock Holmes3/4by Pierre-André Sauvageot
Quiz 2026 - No. 74 • SpecialAnnual John H Watson Canonical Treasure Hunt2 points for each correct answer • The Literary Agent • Alan Napier • Keith Barron • Henri de Vries • Simon Lack • Charles Harold St. John Hamilton • Sir Godfrey Kneller
PastichesJean Ray and Harry DicksonThe American Sherlock Holmes2/4by Pierre-André Sauvageot
Quiz 2026 - No. 73 • SpecialAnnual John H Watson Canonical Treasure Hunt2 points for each correct answer • Banga? Tango?... • Larry Martyn • Sue Lloyd • David Duchovny • Alexei David Sayle • - Edward Hardwicke, born August 7, 1932:see May 16 The
PastichesJean Ray and Harry DicksonThe American Sherlock Holmes1/4by Pierre-André Sauvageot
Quiz 2026 - No. 72 • SpecialAnnual John H Watson Canonical Treasure Hunt2 points for each correct answer • One Moriarty may hide another... • Reece Dinsdale was born on August 6, 1959. The British actor played Sherlock Holmes in the episode • Frank Finlay was born on August 6, 1926 (died January 30, 2016). The English actor played Inspector Lestrade in the film • HardwickeActor Cedric Hardwicke died on August 6, 1964. He played Sherlock Holmes in • William Palmer was born on August 6, 1824 (died June 14, 1856). Nicknamed “the Rugeley Poisoner” or the “Prince of Poisoners,” he was an English doctor convicted of murder in one of the most famous cases of the nineteenth century. Charles Dickens called Palmer the “greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey.” • On August 6, 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle married Louisa Hawkins. Arthur Conan Doyle and Louise were united by the Rev. S. R. Stable at St Oswald’s Church in Thornton-in-Lonsdale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Their witnesses were Bryan Waller (Arthur’s friend) and Julia Waller, Emily Hawkins (Louise’s mother), Innes Doyle (Arthur’s brother), Mary Doyle (Arthur’s mother) and Constance Doyle (Arthur’s sister). They travelled to Dublin, Ireland, for their honeymoon.
ComicsHergé’s Quick and FlupkeThe Blaes Street Irregularsby Frank Griese
TheatreMurdering Sherlockon stage in the United Kingdom in 2027 • Quiz 2026 - No. 71 • SpecialAnnual John H Watson Canonical Treasure Hunt2 points for each correct answer • Look for the woman... • John Huston
GameMoriA.I.RTy is an investigationand puzzle video gamedeveloped by Red Meat Games
The Ultimate Sherlockian QuizThe Annual John H Watson Canonical Treasure Huntpresented by The John H Watson Society • Quiz 2026 - No. 70 • The “FINA” riddle3 points for each correct answer • Hat snatched... • Gustave Von Seyffertitz • More on Robert Hardy
InterviewAlexandre TraunerThe production designer of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
ErratumThe end of the article about the Conan Doyle Encyclopedia • Quiz 2026 - no. 69 • The "FINA" riddle3 points for the correct answer • Hat snatched... • Robert Hardy • John Gardner • Sir Roger Casement