Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective is a 1962 novel by William S. Baring-Gould. The book purports to be a biography of Sherlock Holmes. Some aspects of the book were loosely based on the life of Baring-Gould's paternal grandfather, Sabine Baring-Gould. Five years later, Baring-Gould would go on to publish an "Annotated Sherlock Holmes", which would be considered definitive, at least until Leslie S. Klinger published "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" in 2004–2005. Baring-Gould used many biography details he invented in "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street" for his
Canon of Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes" (1917) This essay was featured in the "Strand Magazine" as a Christmas treat to its readers. It talks of the way Holmes had caught the public imagination and Conan Doyle’s view on his character. "The Truth About Sherlock Holmes" (1923) An essay from "Collier's Weekly", in which Doyle explains exactly where Holmes came from. It contains, at the end, J. M. Barrie’s "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators". "Mr. Sherlock Holmes to His Readers" (1927) This appeared in "The Strand Magazine" to introduce a competition to name the best Sherlock Holmes adventures. The same essay, with two