Canadian Holmes 2023

Canadian Holmes, Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto

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Volume 46 Number 1 – Winter 2022/2023
  • Traces of Bootprints – By JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • ACD as a master of slang
  • Dispatches from the Moor: Newspapers and The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Tallying cab costs in the Canon
  • Not a shot fired – in anger: ACD as a war correspondent
  • Looking beyond the Moss-rose to the green consulting detective
  • The Curious Encounter of Lord Peter Wimsey and Sherlock Holmes
  • London Scrubbed Clean in the Canon
  • The Case of the Missing Case

Volume 46 Number 2 – Spring 2023
  • Traces of Bootprints – By JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window – By Barbara Rusch
  • Gone fishin’ with Sherlock Holmes – By Brian Clark
  • “A pathological and morbid process” – By Donald A. Redmond
  • The murder of Sherlock Holmes: Deaths in the life of Arthur Conan Doyle – By Daniel L. Friedman & Eugene B. Friedman
  • The Porlock Twist – By Bruce Harris
  • Arthur Conan Doyle and the mysterious case of the Queen of Crime – By Stefan Weishaupt
  • “a few lines upon a sheet of paper” – Conan Doyle’s other work for The Strand Magazine – By Mark Jones
  • Letter to the Editors
  • “Holmes gave me a brief review”
  • Bootmakers’ Diary

Volume 46 Number 3 – Summer 2023
  • Traces of Bootprints – By JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window – By Barbara Rusch
  • The Bootmakers: A half-century retrospective – 1972 – 2022 – By Donny Zaldin
  • Drebber’s dirty book – Boccaccio’s Decameron in A Study in Scarlet – By Ron Levitsky
  • Mysteries, signs and tainted legacies: Conan Doyle’s Moonstone trilogy – By Paul M. Chapman
  • What was the name of that sea captain? – By Jim Ballinger
  • Conan Doyle’s Canadian investment at the Lakehead – By Mark Alberstat
  • She is always the woman – By Rob Nunn
  • “a few lines upon a sheet of paper” – Conan Doyle’s other work for The Strand Magazine – By Mark Jones
  • Strictly Personal
  • “Holmes gave me a brief review”
  • Bootmakers’ Diary

Volume 46 Number 4 – Fall 2023
  • Traces of Bootprints – By JoAnn and Mark Alberstat
  • The view from the bow window – By Barbara Rusch
  • Science and Sherlock Holmes – By Dana Richards
  • Conan Doyle and boxing – By Clifford S. Goldfarb and Hartley R. Nathan
  • The bright heart of “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” – By Karen Campbell
  • Holmes and Chaplin – By Ray Rawlings
  • Strictly Personal
  • “a few lines upon a sheet of paper” – Conan Doyle’s other work for The Strand Magazine – By Mark Jones
  • “Holmes gave me a brief review”
  • Forthcoming books of Sherlockian/Doylean interest
  • Bootmakers’ Diary

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