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Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Lyndsay Faye, Lloyd Rose, Steve Hockensmith, Robert Pohle, Loren D. Estleman, Victoria Thompson, Gillian Linscott, Bill Crider, Paula Cohen, Daniel Stashower, Matthew Pearl, Carolyn Wheat, Jon L. Breen, Michéal Breathnach, Michael Walsh, Christopher Redmond, A. Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes In America

Copyright © 2009 by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower

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Introduction: “‘American, as you perceive,’” copyright © 2009 by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower

“The Case of Colonel Warburton’s Madness,” copyright © 2009 by Lyndsay Faye

“Ghosts and the Machine,” copyright © 2009 by Lloyd Rose

“Excerpts from an Unpublished Memoir Found in the Basement of the Home for Retired Actors,”

copyright © 2009 by Steve Hockensmith

“The Flowers of Utah,” copyright © 2009 by Robert Pohle

“The Adventure of the Coughing Dentist,” copyright © 2009 by Loren D. Estleman

“The Minister’s Missing Daughter,” copyright © 2009 by Victoria Thompson

“The Case of Colonel Crockett’s Violin,” copyright © 2009 by Gillian Linscott

“The Adventure of the White City,” copyright © 2009 by Bill Crider

“Recalled to Life,” copyright © 2009 by Paula Cohen

“The Seven Walnuts,” copyright © 2009 by Daniel Stashower

“The Adventure of the Boston Dromio,” copyright © 2009 by Matthew Pearl

“The Case of the Rival Queens,” copyright © 2009 by Carolyn Wheat

“The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarters,” copyright © 2009 by Jon L.

“The Song at Twilight,” copyright © 2009 by Michéal Breathnach

“Moriarty, Moran, and More: Anti-Hibernian Sentiment in the Canon,” copyright © 2009 by

Michael Walsh

“How the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Brought Him to America,” copyright © 2009 by

Christopher Redmond

INTRODUCTION: “AMERICAN, AS YOU PERCEIVE” by Jon L. Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower

“It is always a joy to meet an American,” declares Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” “for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same worldwide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes. ”

It should not come as a surprise, then, to find that the Sherlock Holmes stories are fairly bursting with Americans. The Great Detective’s very first outing, A Study in Scarlet, features a lengthy flashback set in the Mormon community of Utah, while the novel The Valley of Fear turns on an account of nefarious doings in the coal-mining communities of Pennsylvania. Americans feature prominently in several of the most popular Holmes adventures, including The Five Orange Pips and The Adventure of the Dancing Men, and no less a figure than the woman, the legendary Irene Adler “of dubious and questionable memory” who bested Sherlock Holmes, hailed from New Jersey. If further evidence is required, one need only recall that Holmes himself posed as an Irish-American spy named Altamont to outwit the German spymaster Von Bork in His Last Bow.