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Message: [QUOTE="Dokey, post: 3529681, member: 9636"] It might come as a surprise but my wife and partner in our business, one of the largest mystery specialty bookstores and presses in the world, didn’t read a Sherlock Holmes story until she was 30. I wasn’t sure how this transfer from sf would handle Holmes but I sent her off with The Red-Headed League. She returned to say why have you been holding out on me? And so a Sherlockisn was born. It should be noted that the first appearance of the Holmes stories in the new magazine, The Strand, coincided with many of the first Brits to benefit from universal education, thus the first truly literate British population, and the lines went round the corner from the newsstands each month for the latest installment in The Adventures and Memoirs in the Strand. [/QUOTE]