Subcutaneously, My Dear Watson. Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit [SIGNED, 1st Edition]

Tracy, Jack / Berkey, Jim

ISBN 10: 091873603X / ISBN 13: 9780918736031

Published by James A. Rock & Company Publishers, Indiana, 1978

About this Item

91pp, [3], bound in illustrated stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. In a protective mylar sleeve. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. Inscribed and signed by Jack Tracy.

Seller Inventory # 007313

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subcutaneously, My Dear Watson. Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit [SIGNED, 1st Edition]
• Publisher: James A. Rock & Company Publishers, Indiana
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 091873603X
• ISBN 13: 9780918736031
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: McCall, Paul M.
• Edition: First Canadian Edition
• Condition: VERY GOOD ++
• Signed: BOOK INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUT

About this title

Synopsis

A detailed study of the use of cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal Detective stories. It provides an insight into the attitudes prevalent in the late nineteenth century toward the use of and addiction to cocaine. The authors trace the effects of Holmes's drug habit on his career as a detective and on his relationship with Doctor Watson. The concise and interesting style is enhanced by many illustrations giving graphic historical perspective to the narrative. The book is a must for the Holmes buff and for those interested in early Anglo-American beliefs about cocaine and its effects. 89pp, 5"x8", pub 1978, illustrated. The text and format were planned by James A. Rock & Jack Tracy, typography by Lynne A. Rock. Composed in 12 pt Baskerville type, printed on creme-white Sebago, 60 pound stock. The entire book was printed by the web-offset method by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, of Chicago, Illinois.

About the Author

Jack Tracy, a noted Sherlockian and member of the Baker Street Irregulars and received their 1977 Lew D. Feldman Morley-Montgomery Award for the best article to appear in the Baker Street Journal, his Encyclopedia Sherlockiana eas nominated for an "Edgar" award and won a 1999 Poll as the most important Sherlockian book of the 20th Century, beating out titles by W. S. Baring-Gould and Vincent Starrett.