Mr. and Mrs. Homes Make an Important Confession
(1903)(The second book in the Shylock Homes series)
A Novella by John Kendrick Bangs
"What," you may well ask, "is this strange story by John Kendrick Bangs?"
It's is the second part of a newspaper series Bangs published in 1903, after the "death" of Sherlock Holmes, poking some (posthumous) fun at the series and character.
At that time, newspapers were slim publications (many only 16 pages or less), and they carried not just news, comics, and of course advertisements (as we see today), but poetry and fiction. Weekly installments of series were quite common, and Bangs published numerous pastiches and parodies in their pages, including the "Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs" series. They were not quite enough of the Shylock Homes tales, when all had been published, to form a book (although a fan publisher released them as such in an extremely rare limited edition in the 1970s). Otherwise, Ellery Queen reprinted one in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, but most have never been seen by modern readers.
We have been diving deep into newspaper archives to find the original publications, and here is the second one. (The first appeared in Black Cat Thrillogy #12: The Sherlock Holmes Parody Thrillogy).
Eventually we plan to collect them all. I'm sure all dedicated Sherlockians will find them amusing!
-- from the Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt
Genre: Mystery
It's is the second part of a newspaper series Bangs published in 1903, after the "death" of Sherlock Holmes, poking some (posthumous) fun at the series and character.
At that time, newspapers were slim publications (many only 16 pages or less), and they carried not just news, comics, and of course advertisements (as we see today), but poetry and fiction. Weekly installments of series were quite common, and Bangs published numerous pastiches and parodies in their pages, including the "Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs" series. They were not quite enough of the Shylock Homes tales, when all had been published, to form a book (although a fan publisher released them as such in an extremely rare limited edition in the 1970s). Otherwise, Ellery Queen reprinted one in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, but most have never been seen by modern readers.
We have been diving deep into newspaper archives to find the original publications, and here is the second one. (The first appeared in Black Cat Thrillogy #12: The Sherlock Holmes Parody Thrillogy).
Eventually we plan to collect them all. I'm sure all dedicated Sherlockians will find them amusing!
-- from the Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt
Genre: Mystery
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