Once more we reach the last issue of the year - our tenth year of publication. We are planning some exciting changes next year, including changing the title of the magazine which from issue 47 will be called simply SHERLOCK.

But for now it’s time to draw the curtains, throw another log on the fire and settle down to peruse this issue and see what it has in store for you. 

Contents

1. NEWS AND VIEWS
2. MYSTERY: CAUGHT ON THE NET 
   Bob Byrne is wise to the Web
3. CANONICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
   Exploring The Abbey Grange, first published in The Strand in September 1904
4. REMEMBERING JEREMY BRETT 
   The final part of our Jeremy Brett retrospective
5. UNDER THE GASLIGHT 
   Roger Forsdyke asks whether it was Jack or Jill the Ripper
6. WATSON’S CHRISTMAS TRICK 
   Bob Byrne’s seasonal treat and tribute to the mini book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. MR AND MRS SLEUTH 
   Alan Perry mixes matrimony and murder in his feature on couples and crime fighting
8. SHERLOCK STATESIDE 
   Pat Ward with the latest news from America
9. THE OTHER DETECTIVES 
   Martin Edwards takes some legal steps with Cyril Hare’s detective creation, Francis Pettigrew
10. HOLMES OF THE MOVIES 
    David Stuart Davies reviews of The Royal Scandal, starring Matt Frewer as the great detective
11. SHERLOCK HOLMES, BUNGLER? 
    J P Pivard defends allegations against Holmes that he wasn’t particularly good at his work
12. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE REICHENBACH SECRET 
    A new Holmes story by David Stuart Davies illustrated by Chris Senior
13. THE SOUND OF FOUR 
    A report on Holmes returning to Radio Four
14. SLEUTHING THE SHELVES 
    The latest books scrutinised in our reviews section
15. IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN 
    An analysis of Sherlock Holmes and society discussed by Paul M Chapman
16. BODY OF EVIDENCE 
    Calum McLeod investigates teh contemporary crime fiction writer Peter Robinson
17. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER 
    Mike Ripley is brought to book
18. HOLMES OFF THE CUFF 
    John Hall on the early days at Baker Street
19. TELLY ’TECS 
    Kathryn White reivews Murder Rooms, the BBC’s dark Sherlock Holmes series starring Joseph Bell
20. SOCIETIES FORUM 
    Conducted by Roger Johnson with Gerard’s Hussars society illuminated by Brian Pugh
21. MORIARTY’S MUTTERINGS