Issue 26 - Autumn 2026

What's inside Issue 26 of Sherlock Holmes Magazine:

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• News

• The mystery of the Abbey Treasure 
  The story behind a never-broadcast Jeremy Brett Holmes film

• The retirement we never saw
  What happened to the Brett beekeeper footage?

• A lifetime of stories 
  T Rick Jones meets Sherlockian Peter E Blau

• The Victorian World Wide Web
  How Sherlock Holmes mastered the telegraph

• A doctor among gentlemen
  Malcolm Noble takes us inside Conan Doyle’s evening at the Albany Hotel

• The dispatch box

• Into the abyss
  Daniel L Friedman and Eugene B Friedman explore the parallels between The Man with the Twisted Lip and The People of the Abyss

• The death of Major Sholto
  A new analysis by Mike Barrett, Professor of Parasitology at the University of Glasgow

• Baker Street Ladies
  Rakshita Patel meets the star of a play celebrating the women of the canon

• What about Watson?
  T Rick Jones returns to “Sherlock’s castle” to meet the team behind a play that puts the spotlight on the good doctor

• Valley Views
  T Rick Jones goes backstage with the director of a new off-Broadway show

• The many moods of Watson
  Johanna Draper Carlson continues her comic book series

• Something a little different
  Writer Joel Meadows takes on a new challenge

• Mrs Hudson’s Diary

• The Adventure of the Missing Mathematician
  An original short story by Giles Phillips

• Books

• Crossword & cartoon