A Day-by-Day Chronology
of Mr. Sherlock Holmes
According to Zeisler and Christ
A detailed day-by-day account of the events in the career of the world's most celebrated detective from his first case, A Study in Scarlet, to his last case, His Last Bow and including some events that took place before the first case!
- Follows the careful and precise chronologies of Dr. Ernest B. Zeisler (1953) and Professor Jay Finley Christ (1947) and includes
- month, day, year, and day-of-the-week for each event
- has references to the page numbers from the Zeisler and Christ chronologies
- also has references to the page numbers in the Doubleday edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes
- has a bibliography that includes references to six chronologies
- starts with Saturday, May 1, 1847 (Death of Lucy Ferrier's mother - Study in Scarlet)
- ends with Sunday, August 2, 1914 (Capture of Von Bork - His Last Bow)
- Contains five illustrations by the Sherlockian illustrators Nancy Beiman and Philip Cornell
- Has two indexes: one for titles of the cases and one for people, places, and things
- Has four appendices
- Baring-Gould's dating of "The Retired Colourman"
- Zeisler's dating of "The Engineer's Thumb"
- Christ's dating of "The Abbey Grange"
- Dorn's dating of "The Three Gables
Here are a few typical entries where D refers to the Doubleday edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, C refers to the Christ chronology, and Z refers to the Zeisler chronology.
- Tuesday, April 17, 1888 - Toby led Holmes and Watson on a creosote trail (D, 117)
- Wednesday, April 4, 1883 - Dr Grimesby Roylott died from a snake bite (C, 15; D, 272)
- Sunday, September 8, 1889 - Victor Hatherley lost his thumb at about 2 am (Z, 77; D, 283)
- Friday, October 19, 1900 - Holmes and Watson shot and killed the Hound of the Baskervilles (Z, 122; D, 757)
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