Profile by Gaslight

Edgar W. Smith, Howard Collins, George F. McCleary, Charles Goodman, P M Stone, Belden Wigglesworth, W. S. Hall, Rufus S. Tucker, Logan Clendening, E. E. Kellett, Stephen Vincent Benét, Julian Wolff, James Keddie, Helene Yuhasova, Robert Keith Leavitt, Felix Morley, Elmer Davis, Alexander Woollcott, Harvey Officer, Buttons., Evoe.

Collection of essays and poems by various writers, dealing with the "private life of Sherlock Holmes," edited by Edgar W. Smith. Includes maps, illustrations, coats of arms, genealogical tables, portrait. Contents: To a very literary lady / Vincent Starrett -- Sherlock Holmes and the Pygmies / Heywood Broun -- The profile emerges / Howard Haycraft -- To an undiscerning critic / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Ex libris Sherlock Holmes / Howard Collins -- Was Sherlock Holmes a drug addict? / George F. McCleary -- Triolet on the immortality of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson / "Buttons" -- Clinical notes by a resident patient / Christopher Morley -- Was the later Holmes an imposter? / Anthony Boucher -- Sherlock Holmes in the news / Charles Honce -- The dental Holmes / Charles Goodman -- The other friendship : a speculation / P.M. Stone -- The coat of arms of Sherlock Holmes /...

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