Stark House Press will release Gary Lovisi’s A Sherlock Holmes Notebook: A Cornucopia of Sherlockania in May 2022. This nearly 200 page trade paperback is packed full of essays, trivia, and collective treasures sure to please and enlighten fans and followers of the great detective’s adventures. Like many, I was introduced to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson while still in school. I read many of Doyle’s stories and watched quite a few of the movies and TV series produced over the years, but I had no idea of the extent to which the creation inspired first pastiches, and later new adventures, once the Canon fell into the public domain.
Lovisi shares the fruits of his lifelong pursuit of all kinds of Sherlockania with readers. Whether you’re a die-hard fanatic or a casual fan, there is plenty to delight in here through his series of over 20 articles and reviews, complemented with dozens of cover images of collectable first editions, paperbacks, translated volumes, card sets, plays, films, and even Doyle’s correspondence with Robert Louis Stevenson. Although Holmes is the center of all the attention, Lovisi does include a bit on Doyle’s other fan favorite, Professor Challenger, of The Lost World, The Poison Belt, and The Land of Mist.
A Sherlock Holmes Notebook by Gary Lovisi is a joy to read from first page to last. Whether you’re a serious collector of Sherlockania or a casual fan, you’ll find numerous leads to pursue in secondary markets out of curiosity or to satisfy a newly-stoked fervor.
