In keeping with the jolliness of the festive seaon, this issue focuses on the happy subject of parodies, which have always been a part of the Sherlockian and crime writing scene...

Contents

1. I HEAR OF SHERLOCK EVERYWHERE 
   Our news and views column
2. JOTTINGS FROM WATSON’S JOURNAL 
   John Hall on Watson as an author in his continuing series looking at Holmes’ friend
3. CANONICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
   The Reigate Squires
4. HOLMES, THIS IS AMUSING! 
   Brian Adrian researches some early examples of Sherlock Holmes parodies
5. ARE YOU THERE MORIARTY? 
   Colin Dexter on the trials and tribulations of appearing in the Inspector Morse television series
6. A STUDY IN CELLULOID 
   Michael Cox continues his behind the scenes story of Granada Television’s Sherlock Holmes series
7. SHERLOCK STATESIDE 
   Our special American correspondent Pat Ward reports
8. SCARLET THREADS 
   Gaynor Coules looks at contemporary crime writer Simon Brett
9. HOLMES OF THE MOVIES 
   David Stuart Davies reviews Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s The Hound of the Baskervilles
10. UNDER THE GASLIGHT 
    Victorian crime and criminals analysed by Roger Forsdyke
11. THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS BAUBLE 
    A new case for Sherlock Holmes written by John Hall and illustrated by Chris Senior
12. WHAT’S NEW SHERLOCK? 
    The reviews section
13. THE OTHER DETECTIVES 
    Schlock Homes gets the once over from Jean Upton
14. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER 
    The Talented Mr Ripley’s new column about today’s crime fiction
15. THE CASE OF THE DANISH PRINCE 
    Barbara Roden shows that Conan Doyle was not averse to sending up his hero
16. SHERLOCK’S CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD 
    Conducted by Roger Johnson with Michael Ross on Von Herder Airguns Limited
17. SOCIETIES FORUM 
    Hot gossip from Roger Johnson and Ivor Guffaw
18. MORIARTY’S MUTTERINGS