Word: 221b
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street, London, England; it was postmarked Cleveland, Miss. Wrote 19-year-old Coed Laquita Joyce Bell of Delta State Teachers College: "Dear Mr. Holmes: My English teacher told me something would happen if I wrote you. He refused to tell me what. This aroused my curiosity, so here I sit, feeling rather silly, writing...
...221B Baker Street something did happen that not even Miss Bell's English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...
Yours Sincerely. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories in 1887, he picked 221B Baker Street because there was no such address; the numbers stopped short of 200. But in 1931, an eight-story office building was put up at 220-223 Baker Street by the Abbey National Building Society. Ever since, the London post office has turned over to the company an average of five letters a month addressed to Holmes at 221B, and the company has dutifully answered them...
From now on, all letters to 221B will "be delivered to 32-year-old Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine. An ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British army veteran, Hall got the idea for his magazine one day when he was strolling along Baker Street. The post office agreed to recognize the mythical 221B as a real address and assign it to the magazine, although Hall and his staff of four have had to set up temporary offices two miles away on Lower Belgrave Street...