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 paragraphs cut, appears as the preface to "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". "How I Made My List" (1927) This is the sequel to the article mentioned above. In it, Conan Doyle listed what he thought were the best Holmes adventures. He noted that had he been able to include stories from "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" he would certainly have included "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" and "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client". The list is as follows: Richard Lancelyn Green's "The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes" also includes five prefaces to the various editions of Sherlock Holmes stories and novels,