Presented to the Gryphon Club at Oxford in 1911 and published in Blue Book Magazine in 1912, this essay by Ronald A. Knox (then a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, but eventual becoming mystery writer, Bible and bio translator, and convert Catholic priest) laid the groundwork and established the primary areas of investigation for the “Great Game” of Sherlockian mock-scholarship.
Bible scholars, English majors, and Holmes fans will probably get a lot more of the in-jokes, but it’s pretty funny stuff for anybody. (The first paragraph betrays Knox’s indebtedness to Chesterton, but the rest takes off into his own territory.)
“Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes”, Part 1
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I’m really quite fond of the Deutero-Watson idea, which hasn’t gotten enough play in the past century. No doubt all the fictional Deutero-Watsons found in re-set Holmes stories are evidence of the subtle power of this shadowy figure. 
Ronald Knox, who reported the 1926 destruction of Big Ben by trench mortars …
Daniel Mitsui found Two Limericks by Ronald Knox.marialectrix reads Knox discussing Sherlock Holmes in her two posts #328: Part 1, “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes” by Ronald A. Knox, and the second,#329: Part 2, “Studies in the Literature…