The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (1944, edited by Ellery Queen)

First published in 1944, it consists of 4 Parts - featuring stories by
authors dating from 1892 - 1941.

"PART ONE - BY DETECTIVE-STORY WRITERS" - this has 9 short stories by such
writers as: Robert Barr, Maurice Leblanc, Carolyn Wells, Vincent Starrett,
Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, &
Stuart Palmer.

"PART TWO - BY FAMOUS LITERARY FIGURES" - stories by Sr James M. Barrie,
Mark Twain, Bret Harte, & O. Henry.

"PART THREE - BY HUMORISTS" - stories by R. C. Lehmann, John Kendrick Bangs,
and Stephen Leacock.

"PART FOUR - BY DEVOTEES AND OTHERS" - stories by Zero (Allan Ramsay),
R. K. Munkittrick, Oswald Crawford, Julies Castier, A. E. P., August Derleth,
William O. Fuller, Hugh Kingsmill, Rachen Ferguson, Frederic Dorr Steele,
Frederric Arnold Kummer and Basil Mitchell, Logan Clendening, M.D., Richard
Mallett, S. C. Roberts, and Manly Wade Wellman.


R. Holmes & Co. - Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq.,
Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth
First published in 1906 (this book was actually endorsed by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle himself!)

About the book:
"The family of writer Jenkins is temporarily out of town. On a blistering
hot night he is dozing in a hammock on the fire escape when a nocturnal
visitor climbs up it and pops into his flat. Surprised to say the least,
Jenkins follows the burglar to his library, where he finds him perusing
royalty statements. The visitor is Raffles Holmes, son of Sherlock and
grandson of A. J., and he is there to suggest, if he finds these statements
satisfactory, that Jenkins record some of his exploits for mutual financial
gain. Besides which, he says, Jenkins needs some new ideas for his fiction.
Ouch!

Fans of Holmes and Raffles will find this collection amusing and some of
the planning and execution worthy of old Hawkface himself. The criminal
collation tends more to the Rafflian turn of phrase than the Holmesian,
and I must admit I laughed out loud when, after Raffles Holmes whacks
Jenkins on the shoulders and almost topples him into the fireplace,
the former declares .Don.t be a rabbit. The thing will be as easy as
cutting calve.s-foot jelly with a razor.. It.s well worth spending an hour
or two with Bangs when readers fancy something a little lighter than usual
in the criminous literary line."

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