Leslie Klinger's The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes continues to draw notice (as all things Holmesian tend to do), most recently in the Boston Globe.
Two points must be made. In the first place, as Klinger notes in his preface, this is not a book for ''the serious student of Arthur Conan Doyle," by which he means that it is not for those who seek literary sources of the stories or reverberations in them of events in the life of their author. Or perhaps I should say ''author," for the other crucial point is what makes this work so utterly enchanting: ''Here," explains Klinger, ''I perpetuate the gentle fiction that Holmes and Watson really lived and that (except as noted) Dr. John H. Watson wrote the stories about Sherlock Holmes."
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