The Grand Game
Subtitle: a celebration of Sherlockian scholarship
By: edited, with an introduction and commentary by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Contributors: Baker Street Irregulars (Organization : U.S.)
Publisher: Baker Street Irregulars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780979555084; 9780979555091
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Appreciation; Characters; Sherlock Holmes; Art appreciation
Other titles: From piff-pouff to backnecke: the full story.
Notes: Volume One, 1902-1959; Volume Two, 1960-2010.

Set also includes a copy of: From Piff-Pouff to Backneck: the Full Story: Ronald Knox and 100 years of "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes."

Three part set issued in a case.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Volume One: 1902-1959; title: Volume Two: 1960-2010.; title: VOLUME ONE; title: Publisher's Preface  -- by Michael F. Whelan; title: Introduction  -- by Laurie R. King -- THE CORNERSTONE; title: Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes  -- by Ronald A. Knox (1912) -- EARLY CRITICISM; title: "The Hound of the Baskervilles" at Fault  -- by Frank Sidgwick (F.S.) (1902); title: Sherlock Holmes' Plots and Strategy  -- by J.B. Mackenzie (1902); title: Some Inconsistencies of Sherlock Holmes  -- by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1902) -- TEXTUAL CRITICISM; title: The Date of "The Sign of Four"  -- by H.W. Bell (1934); title: Part One (excerpt)  -- by Pope R. Hill, Sr. (1947); title: The Journeys of Sherlock Holmes  -- by Paul Gore-Booth (1948); title: Baker Street Chronology (excerpt)  -- by Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler (1953); title: "7. Knowledge of Chemistry -- Profound"  -- by Leon S. Holstein (1954); title: The Chronological Holmes (excerpt)  -- by William S. Baring-Gould (1955); title: Early Days in Baker Street  -- by John Ball, Jr. (1955); title: "'What Was the Month?"  -- by Nathan Bengis (1957); title: The Date of the Study in Scarlet  -- by Percy Metcalfe (1959) -- HIGHER CRITICISM; title: Holmes, the American? Was Sherlock Holmes an American?  -- by Christopher Morley (1936); title: Letter re Holmes as an American  -- by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945) -- OXFORD OR CAMBRIDGE?; title: Holmes' College Career  -- by Dorothy L. Sayers (1934); title: Oxford vs. Cambridge (excerpt)  -- by O.F. Grazebrook (1949); title: Oxford or Cambridge  -- by Gavin Brend (1951) -- ON DR. WATSON; title: A Note on the Watson Problem  -- by S.C. Roberts (1929); title: The Medical Career and Capacities of Dr. John H. Watson  -- by Helen Simpson (1934); title: The Mystery of the Second Wound  -- by James Keddie, Jr. (1944); title: Dr. Watson's Christian Name  -- by Dorothy L. Sayers (1944); title: Dr. Watson and the British Army  -- by Crighton Sellars (1947); title: Marriage and Its Problems -- by Gavin Brend (1951).; title: A Résumé of the Medical Life of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical ...  -- by Vernon Pennell (1956); title: The Singular Bullet  -- by J.W. Sovine (1959); title: The Adventure of John and Mary  -- by Ebbe Curtis Hoff (1959) -- 221B BAKER STREET; title: Letter re Camden House  -- by Gray Chandler Briggs (1931); title: No. 221B Baker Street  -- by Vincent Starrett (1933); title: This Desirable Residence  -- by G.B. Newton (1956); title: Where was 221B?  -- by James Edward Holroyd (1959); title: The Backyards of Baker Street  -- by Bernard Davies (1959) -- ON SHERLOCK HOLMES; title: Nummi in Arca, or the Fiscal Holmes  -- by R.K. Leavitt (1940); title: The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes  -- by Earle F. Walbridge (1940); title: Annie Oakley in Baker Street  -- by R.K. Leavitt (1944); title: The Distaff Side of Baker Street  -- by Esther Longfellow (1946); title: On the Remarkable Explorations of Sigerson  -- by Winifred M. Christie (1952); title: The Gastronomic Holmes  -- by Fletcher Pratt (1952); title: Sherlock Holmes -- Rare Book Collector  -- by Madeleine B. Stern (1953); title: The Nefarious Holmes  -- by Red Smith (1953) -- On MORIARTY; title: On the Nomenclature of the Brothers Moriarty  -- by Anthony Boucher (1941); title: Moriarty Was There  -- by Robert Pattrick (1958) -- PROBLEMS IN INDIVIDUAL CASES; title: The Significance of the Second Stain  -- by Felix Morley (1944); title: Thumbing His Way to Fame  -- by Bliss Austin (1946); title: The Three Students in Limelight, Electric Light and Daylight  -- by W.S. Bristowe (1953); title: Thumbs Up: Thumbs Down?  -- by Jay Finley Christ (1954); title: A Final Illumination on the Lucca Code  -- by Donald A. Yates (1955); title: Moriarty Was There  -- by A. Carson Simpson (1957) -- LOCATIONAL ISSUES; title: Three Identifications: Lauriston Gardens, Upper Swandam Lane, Saxe-Coburg Square  -- by H.W. Bell (1940); title: Inner or Outer Rail -- by Norman Crump (1952).; title: "A Case of Identity"  -- by James Montgomery (1955) -- SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS; title: The Literature Relating to Sherlock Holmes  -- by T.S. Blakeney (1932); title: The Mystery of Mycroft  -- by Ronald A. Knox (1934); title: A Scandal in Identity  -- by Edgar W. Smith (1944); title: The Problem of the Case-Book  -- by D. Martin Dakin (1953); title: The Effect of Trades Upon the Body  -- by Remsen Ten Eyck Schenck (1953); title: Clergymen in the Canon  -- by Rev. Otis R. Rice (1954) -- RADICAL CRITICISM; title: Watson Was a Woman  -- by Rex Stout (1944); title: That Was No Lady  -- by Julian Wolff (1944) -- MIDRASH; title: Dr. Watson Speaks Out  -- by A.A. Milne (1929); title: The Singular Adventures of Martha Hudson  -- by Vincent Starrett (1934); title: Mrs. Hudson Speaks  -- by ZaSu Pitts (1947); title: Art in the Blood  -- by James Montgomery (1950); title: The Napoleon of Crime -- Prolegomena to a Memoir of Professor James Moriarty, Sc. D.  -- by Edgar W. Smith (1953); title: Inspector G. Lestrade  -- by Holstein, Leon S. (1958); title: Two Canonical Problems Solved -- by S. Tupper Bigelow (1959).; title: VOLUME TWO; title: The curious behavior of the ritual in the daytime  -- Poul and Karen Anderson; title: The blue enigma  -- S. Tupper Bigelow; title: Dr. John H. Watson at Netley (exerpt)  -- Elliot Kimball; title: Meeting in Montenegro June 1891  -- William S. Baring-Gould; title: Baker Street finance  -- A.M. Robertson; title: The mews of Marylebone  -- Bernard Davies; title: Lunatic banker's royal client -- Dr. Watson tried semi-fiction  -- Lord Donegall; title: The unknown Watson  -- H.B. Williams; title: Where was the "bar of gold"?  -- Alan Wilson; title: Some chemical problems in the Canon  -- Donald A. Redmond; title: Seventeen out of twenty-three  -- Henry T. Folsom; title: The Jezail bullet  -- W.B. Hepburn; title: Conan Doyle's dying detective  -- William Ober; title: "I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street" (exerpt)  -- William S. Baring-Gould; title: The truth about Moriarty  -- W.S. Bristowe; title: Bakerville Hall  -- Roger Lancelyn Green; title: Reflections on "the Sign of Four", or, Oreamnosis once removed  -- Percy Metcalfe; title: Sherlock Holmes and the railways  -- B.D.J. Walsh; title: The early years of Sherlock Holmes  -- Trevor H. Hall; title: A tourist guide to the London of Sherlock Holmes (exerpt)  -- Charles O. Merriman; title: "Our client's foot upon the stair"  -- James Edward Holroyd; title: The engineer's thumb  -- D. Martin Dakin -- Mr. Holmes comes to town / -- Michael Harrison; title: A note on "The Five Orange Pips"  -- Ian McQueen; title: The guns of Sherlock Holmes  -- Scott McMillan and Garry James; title: Who was Tonga?  -- Julia Carlson Rosenblatt; title: The case against Mr. Holmes  -- Andrew F. Fusco; title: The amoral Mr. Holmes  -- Belden WIgglesworth; title: "The matter is a perfectly trivial one ..."  -- Peter E. Blau; title: Who was Mrs. Turner?  -- Michael Clark; title: Who was Porlock  -- Donald Alan Webster; title: The commonplace murder of Mary Sutherland  -- Howard Brody; title: "Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay"  -- Robert E. Robinson; title: Cornwall the the Devil's foot -- David L. Hammer.; title: The Priory School map: a re-examination  -- Irving Kamil; title: The true identity of Stapleton  -- Shin-Ichi Kanto; title: Your department, Watson?  -- Grant Eustace; title: Ballarat revisited  -- Alan Olding; title: The secret life of Mycroft Holmes  -- Steven Rothman; title: A suggested two-thirds of "The Missing Three-Quarter"  -- Marshall S. Berdan; title: "It is horribly contagious"  -- Robert Katz; title: The Martha myth  -- William Hyder; title: Silver Blaze: a corrected identification  -- Wayne B. Swift; title: "I came to Baker-Street by the Underground"  -- Roger Johnson; title: The polyphonic motets of Lassus  -- Edward R. Staubach; title: Scandal and reunion  -- June Thomson; title: "What was the month?"  -- John Hall; title: The Odessa file: Sherlock Holmes and Imperial Russia  -- Wladimir V. Bogomoletz; title: Headlines and deadlines: how Sherlock Holmes used the press  -- Peter Calamai; title: The boys in the (speckled) band  -- Chris Redmond; title: Who was Bruce-Partington? (exerpt)  -- Michael Kean; title: Operation Bruce-Partington  -- Reggie Musgrave; title: The path of the Colonel's bullet  -- Leslie S. Klinger; title: A vindication of Stapleton  -- Donald A. Yates; title: "The politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant"  -- Nicholas Utechin; title: A GLORious history  -- Rosane McNamara; title: A Norwegian named Sigerson  -- Nils Nordberg; title: Case closed: The Long Island cave mystery solved  -- Steven T. Doyle; title: Watson's war wound  -- Laurie R. King; title: "Angels of Darkness" and "A study in scarlet": can they both be true?  -- Greg Darak; title: Controversity debate ---- Nicholas Utechin and Guy Marriott.