Holmes Reads Holmes: Reflections on the Real-Life Links Between the Jurist & the Detective in the Library, in the Courtroom, and on the Battlefield

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Notes

1 A Study in Scarlet (1887); The Sign of the Four (1890).

2 “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893).

3 W. E. Butler, Sherlockian Bookplates (1992).

4 Catherine D. Bowen, Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (1944). The editors have the highest opinion of Justice Holmes. But, for the sake of balance, it must be noted that he was the author of Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 207 (1927), opining that “three generations of imbeciles are enough,” language used by Nazis at the Nuremberg trials as a justification for the Holocaust.

5 Perhaps it was because the story is out of copyright. See Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate, 755 F.3d 496 (7^th Cir. 2014).