Best reference book about Holmes?

[Patrick]

What are everyone's thoughts about what the best reference work about Holmes is?

[Cara]

The annotated Sherlock Holmes by Baring-Gould. The original and still the best! Comes in two volumes.

[Derrick]

I don't think there is one Be all, end all" reference work on Holmes. You need both the new and original annotated editions as well as The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana by Jack Tracy. Even then, there are so many wonderful reference works on the series that you are just scratching the surface.

[Karl]

And Ron de Waal....

[Steven]

I think about the best reference book about Holmes.I think A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the best.I think original book is the best

[Duffy]

Cara wrote: "The annotated Sherlock Holmes by Baring-Gould. The original and still the best! Comes in two volumes."

I second this comment! Find it to be helpful and thorough ...

[Karl]

Duffy wrote: "Cara wrote: "The annotated Sherlock Holmes by Baring-Gould. The original and still the best! Comes in two volumes."

I second this comment! Find it to be helpful and thorough ..."

OK, I'll agree that his contribution to plethora of reference books remains among the best, but his Chronology.....

[Cara]

Oh yeah, I'd sooner believe Holmes and Watson were traveling with Doctor Who than the timeline Barring-Gould suggests. But otherwise his annotations are so wonderfully detailed!

[Sherlock]

Cara wrote: "The annotated Sherlock Holmes by Baring-Gould. The original and still the best! Comes in two volumes."

Definitely. I'm re-reading it now, as a matter of fact. I love that there is information about the era as well as tons of theory about canon.

[Karl]

Still, Klinger's effort is worthy of a mention. His annotated edition comes very close to topple Baring-Gould's from the summit. I'd also like to point to
Martin Dakin's single-volume 'Commentary' . It was issued in the early seventies ( if I remember correctly), but remains among the best of it's kind.

[Steve]

A frank review of the canon is 'Eliminate The Impossible' by Alistair Duncan.