Captain Carey

From Black Peter: “I have a few dates here which will give the career of the dead man, Captain Peter Carey.  He was born in ’45 — fifty years of age. He was a most daring and successful seal and whale fisher. In 1883 he commanded the steam sealer Sea Unicorn, of Dundee.”      …

Was Holmes an ‘Artist’?

“Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art’s sake….” I wonder if Sherlock Holmes considered himself an artist? He frequently berates Watson for not writing up the cases as if they were syllogisms, so one can’t help but wonder — whatever strange forms art may take in the blood — if the Master…

postscript

In the previous entry and to make clear, the Collier’s Weekly  publication was, also, like the Strand Magazine’s publication, in the year: 1904

Publication of ACD’s “Black Peter”

From the end-notes in the Oxford Sherlock Holmes: First published in the Strand Magazine, (March of 1904) with seven Paget illustrations; published in Collier’s Weekly, February of with six Steele illustrations — including the cover in color, a copy of which can be seen on an earlier post on the blog.