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Henry Holmes Smith
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The great Pegram mystery - an adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Two short stories, two parodies of Sherlock Holmes by two famous writers, both close friends of Conan Doyle. In the first case, Robert Barr presents Holmes and Watson investigating an unexplained murder; in the second case, James M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) invites us to an evening meeting with Holmes and his publisher, Mr. Doyle. Cleansings, comments and notes by Ellery Smith
Correspondence
The collection consists of correspondence with Mortimer Smith, Robert Henry Holmes, Alfred S. Cole, and Alice Smith, Holmes's secretary. It also includes obituary notices for Holmes and a sermon on him by Alfred S. Cole.
The Sherlock Holmes Companion
Sherlock Holmes remains as popular, and as fascinating, now as he ever did. Now, in this beautiful and lavishly illustrated book, Daniel Smith explores Sherlock Holmes and his world in every engrossing respect. The Sherlock Holmes Companion, a witty and informed text, provides plot summaries of every single Sherlock Holmes story, in the order in which they were written, and with good-humored and even waspish assessments of their relative merits. There are compact biographies of Holmes, Moriarty, Watson, and Conan Doyle—whose own life and earnest preoccupations remain of enduring interest. The book contains many original interviews with some of the actors who’ve played Holmes, or written ...
Robert Holmes Letter
Includes one handwritten letter (with typescript) written by Robert Holmes to his cousin Francis Holmes. At the time the letter was written, Robert was living in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, while his cousin Francis was living in Iowa. The letter mentions the disastrous summer of 1855, when the "Mormon Crickets" virtually destroyed the Mormon crops. The letter also mentions other Mormons including John Benbow, Thomas Benbow, John Cole, William and Mary Jenkins, and Benjamin and Mary Taylor.
Robert Smith Papers
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Life and Death on the 'Royal Charter'.
The auxiliary steamship 'Royal Charter' was wrecked at Moelfre, Anglesey, North Wales, on the 26th of October, 1859, with great loss of life and a fortune in gold. This book tells the background to the voyage and the story of the disaster using may of the newspaper reports of that era.
