Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) at its peak after the success of his single "Baker Street" and album "City to City" a year earlier. In the US, "Days Gone Down" was used as the lead single from "Night Owl" instead. The B-side on the original "Night Owl" single was the fourth track from the same album, "Why Won't You Talk To Me". Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) "Night Owl" is a song by Gerry Rafferty. It is the second track on his 1979 album of the same name. It features a Lyricon solo played by "Baker Street" saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. The song made the top
Sherlock Holmes pastiches the Cambridge Apostles (Moore, Hardy, Keynes...) Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Annie Besant and of course, Aleisteir Crowley as a perfect villain. Michael Dibdin's novel "The Last Sherlock Holmes Story" (1979) confronts a somewhat psychopathic Sherlock Holmes with the crimes of Jack the Ripper, whom Holmes suspects to be none other than James Moriarty. Raymond Smullyan wrote "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" (1979), in which Holmes (with Watson) applies retrograde analysis to solve chess problems. The detective novelist Loren D. Estleman wrote several short stories and two novels featuring Holmes; the novels pit the detective against Count Dracula and Dr.