Christopher Clausen,
in The Georgia Review (Spring 1984), Uni-
versity of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30602.
Sherlock Holmes surely would have enjoyed unraveling the mysteries of his own existence.
Starting with A Study in Scarlet, in 1887, author Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) made a career for his famous character that spanned three other novels and 56 short stories over 40 years. The Holmes canon cov- ers so much ground, writes Clausen, who teaches at the Virginia Poly- technic Institute, that it...