The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual

Review: This is a fine collection of essays.

John Hall dates the case - and Roger Matthews, with equally sound reasoning, finds a different date. Catherine Cooke, Richard Lancelyn Green and Owen Dudley Edwards look at ACD’s inspirations. Dixon Smith surveys the illustrations, and Barbara Roden the dramatisations. David Stuart Davies considers the Holmes and Musgrave. Frank Darlington sets Brunton in the tradition of smart servants, and John Hall identifies the butler’s real accomplice. It’s comprehensively introduced by Christopher Roden, and produced to Calabash’s very high standards.

I look forward to more.

Reviewed by: Roger Johnson, [District Messenger 163, 1996]