Once more Holmes has displayed to me uncharacteristic enthusiasm for this issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, which includes three of our adventures, my own “The Adventure of the Priory School,” as well as a rendering from my notebook by Paul Hearns, while Bradley Harper has provided an intriguing look at Holmes’s nemesis Professor Moriarty.
In addition, my colleague Mr Kaye has included a bit of whimsy by Ed DeJesus and an unusual tale of the American West by Jim Robb. In it events are ably handled by U S Marshal Wyatt Holmes and his friend Dr John Henry Watson. I asked Holmes if he knew of an American branch to his family, but he said no, although it was quite possible. I am inclined to believe it to be accurate, however, because I do know of an American branch of the Watson clan.
The nonfiction section of this issue contains two items concerning my literary agent Arthur Conan Doyle as well as (my blushes) a complimentary discussion of yours truly by one of our regular contributors Gary Lovisi.
And now a few words from Mr Kaye.
—John H Watson, M D
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Stories by regular SHMM contributors T.J. Glenn, Laird Long and Stan Trybulski will appear in the next issue (#26) as well as a new entry by Steve Shrott. Our occasional editorial assistant Eugene D. Goodwin has another adventure of the Colorado policeman Warren Sutton, while the illustrious Archie Goodwin will provide a new, authorized Nero Wolfe adventure. Finally, two Holmes tales derived from Watson’s notebooks have been supplied by our regular writer Jack Grochot and by an East Indian writer S. Subramanian.
Canonically Yours,
Marvin Kaye