An extra eight pages were added to the magazine’s size from issue 27. And just to squeeze in more fabulous articles, the editor even took the decision to decrease the point size of the text...

Contents

1. I HEAR OF SHERLOCK EVERYWHERE
   Our news and views column
2. JOTTINGS FROM WATSON’S JOURNAL 
   John Hall continues to look at the life and character of Doctor John H Watson
3. A STUDY IN CELLULOID 
   Michael Cox, the producer of Granada Television’s Sherlock Holmes series, continues his fascinating behind-the-scenes story
4. CANONICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
   The Musgrave Ritual
5. THE WORLD’S SECOND GREATEST DETECTIVE 
   J W Mort throws some light on the career and exploits of Inspector Lestrade
6. MAY I COUNT ON YOUR VOTE, MR HOLMES? 
   An appeal to Holmes by Gillian Linscott to support the Votes for Women
7. THE OTHER DETECTIVES 
   Bert Coules gets into the Cadfael habit
8. HOLMES OF THE MOVIES 
   Peter Cushing’s return to the role of Sherlock Holmes in The Masks of Death
9. SHERLOCK STATESIDE 
   Pat Ward, our special American correspondent reports
10. THE CATER STREET HANGMAN 
    David Stuart Davies and Paul Chapman consider the lastest Victorian detective on television
11. THE NORTH WALK MYSTERY 
    The concluding part of this new Holmes story by Denis O Smith
12. THE SHERLOCK TRAIL 
    HRF Keating on the development of crime fiction
13. WHAT’S NEW SHERLOCK? 
    The reviews section
14. UNDER THE GASLIGHT 
    Real Victorian crime presented by Roger Forsdyke
15. TWO EVENTS IN TWO BOOK SHOPS 
    David Stuart Davies raises glasses at Murder One and Crime in Store
16. CRIME WRITING WITH ATTITUDE 
    Mike Ripley examines trends in British crime writing in the last decade
17. BAKER STREET LETTER BOX 
    Your letters and commentsSCARLET THREADS Gaynor Coules enthuses about contemporary crime writer Minette Walters
18. SOCIETIES FORUM 
    Conducted by Roger Johnson with Michael Ross on Von Herder Airguns Limited
19. MORIARTY’S MUTTERINGS