As ever, my friend Holmes is looking forward to the next issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine because its contents will be devoted wholly to his adventures. Meanwhile, the current number includes my report on the crooked man. In the nonfiction section, our regular contributor Bruce Kilstein, M D, discusses my literary agent Conan Doyle’s doings as a medical practitioner, which you may know is how he began his career.
—John H Watson, M D
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In addition to Dr. Kilstein, three regulars appear in these pages: Teel James Glenn, Laird Long, and Dianne Neral Ell. Di, as I like to call her, wrote an excellent “caper” novel, The Exhibit, which the publisher forced her to cut more than they should have. I am pleased to report that an expanded version has been reissued.
Marion McMahon Stanley makes her first appearance here and the issue also includes a new Nero Wolfe story, in which the Great Detective defends none other than Inspector Cramer. And in the tradition of John Dickson Carr’s fat sleuth H.M., who turned defense counsel in The Judas Window, so does Mr. Wolfe in a courtroom drama presided over by a distaff judge based on a real New York City woman who gave an inspiring lecture on women’s rights in the mystery class I once taught at New York University.
Issue # 25 will feature both a new Holmes story and an article about Dr. Watson by Gary Lovisi and other Canonical tales by Paul Hearns, Bradley Harper and Jim Robb.
Canonically Yours,
Marvin Kaye
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