Holmes and Watson (35 page)
Authors: June Thomson
I should like to thank the following people for their generous help with the research for this book: H. M. Brodie, Archivist of Blackheath Football Club; Catherine Cooke, Curator of the Sherlock Holmes’ Collection at Marylebone Library who also read the manuscript and gave invaluable advice; Julia Sheppard, Archivist of the Contemporary Archives Centre at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; and Geoffrey Yeo, former head of the Archives Department at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
I also thank Professor B. J. Rahn for her very special assistance, and Rita and Malcolm de Selincourt for their help with the binomial theorem.
Finally, I should like to pay tribute to the memory of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the canon and creator of those two immortal characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson MD, without whom this book could not have been written.
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UNE
T
HOMSON
, a former teacher, has published over thirty novels, twenty of which feature her series detective Inspector Jack Finch and his sergeant, Tom Boyce. She has also written six pastiche collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Her books have been translated into many languages. June Thomson lives in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
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First published in Great Britain in 1995.
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T
HOMSON
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