"Ideal Interview: Sherlock Holmes."
By Anyhow (who could have been S. L. Bensusan, Charles W. Forward, or H. S. Muller).
First appearance: The Bohemian, October 1893.
Short short story (6 pages).
Online at Hathi Trust (HERE and below).
(Note: Pages 212 and 213 duplicated in Hathi text.)
"I am a real, regular, right-down, rampant, vice-exterminating, blasé, cynical, callous, keen-scented, ready-witted, never-thwarted, demoniacal detective, with melodramatic effects."
SOME commentators have decided that the character of Sherlock Holmes as evolved by Conan Doyle is, to employ that trite but still useful phrase, "too good to be true." These same critics seem to harbor suspicions that there must be something wrong with him. Maybe, they say, he is, to use another worn phrase, "not all there." Today's interviewer, hiding behind the pseudonym Anyhow, would say, if we are to believe his account, that "not all there" doesn't even come close . . .
References:
- "the Odyssey" (HERE; Wikipedia).
- "the Crystal Palace" (HERE; Wikipedia).
- "the Cimmerian gloom" (HERE; Wikipedia). "A description of 'Haynsen' in the Kingdom of Georgia, its inhabitants and history is contained in La Fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient by Hayton of Corycus, written around 1307, translated into English in 1520, and later reproduced in the travellers' tales of Samuel Purchas published in 1614. Purchas uses the term 'Hamsem' to designate the region and concludes that this is the place of the original Cimmerian gloom of Homer's Odyssey."
- "Dr. Conan Doyle" (HERE; Wikipedia).
- "a bottle of embrocation" (HERE; Wikipedia).
- "the Imperial Institute" (HERE; Wikipedia).
The bottom line:
Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.
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