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First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing, 1997
This revised and updated edition published by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, 2009
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Contents
Foreword
by RICHARD LANCELYN GREEN
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Life and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by MIKE ASHLEY
PART I: EARLY YEARS
The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity
DEREK WILSON
The Affray at the Kildare Street Club
PETER TREMAYNE
PART II: THE 1880s
The Case of the Incumbent Invalid
CLAIRE GRIFFEN
The Adventure of Vittoria, the Circus Belle
EDWARD D. HOCH
The Darlington