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...SHERLOCK HOLMES," THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS - August Derleth-Mycroft & Moron...
...Watson often tried to deduce a man's occupation from his appearance, but Sherlock Holmes almost always had to set him right. Police medical examiners who lack Holmes's deductive powers but must often try to determine the occupation of a person brought in dead, unconscious, amnesic or deliberately lying can get some ideas from a guide published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week by Dr. Francesco Ronchese of Providence, R. I. and Boston University...
...Like Sherlock Holmes, he used narcotics, to brighten up the dull months of idleness. But he took the cure regularly, never allowed morphine to disturb his meticulous planning. Nevertheless, drugs were his undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...
This is one mystery that keeps you guessing, not only about who did it but about what the crime was. Detective Andrews shows a fine knowledge of everything from cheap Scotch whiskey to "Brooklyn dames" as he uses clues that would have stumped Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mess and corral the miss...
...Profile by Gaslight (Simon & Schuster: $2.75), edited by Edgar W. Smith, a collection of serious Holmesian studies and whimsies by 36 Holmes admirers, including the late Heywood Broun, Dorothy Sayers, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Rex Stout; The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Little, Brown: $2.50), edited by Ellery Queen, 33 Holmesian parodies by Doyle idolaters, from Mark Twain to Vincent Starrett; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Harcourt, Brace: $2), which reprints five famous Holmes stories, edited and copiously annotated by Christopher Morley...