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The world's first and best periodical devoted to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. @bakerstreetjournal.bsky.social, @BakerStJournal@zirk.us

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28 Dec 2022
A reminder: At midnight on 31 December, as we usher in 2023, Sherlock Holmes enters the public domain in the USA. The last stories were published in 1927, and so the 95 year copyright will expire. In ACD's words 'You may marry him, murder him, or do anything you like to him.'
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The AMS Press reprint of the Baker Street Journal was advertised in the December 1860 issue.
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Sothebys sold the manuscript of The Sign of the Four for $800,000 this morning. 'Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell' and now I know.
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'at last our intimacy turned to love—deep, deep, passionate love, such love as I had dreamed of, but never hoped to feel.' ('The Lion's Mane') #ValentinesDay
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'But there is no doubt that it was a serious love affair.' ('The Lion's Mane') #ValentinesDay
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'She is not in her senses. She is madly in love. She has been told all about him. She cares nothing.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay
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'he has completely and absolutely won her heart. To say that she loves him hardly expresses it. She dotes upon him, she is obsessed by him. Outside of him there is nothing on earth.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay
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'The strongest of all holds where a woman is concerned-the hold of love.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay
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'He loves me. Yes. But do I not love him? Do I not love him even to sacrifice myself rather than break his dear heart. That is how I love him.' ('The Sussex Vampire') #ValentinesDay
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'If ever a woman loved a man with all her heart and soul, she loves me.' ('The Sussex Vampire') #ValentinesDay
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'I do not think that in our adventures we have ever come across a stranger example of what perverted love can bring about.' ('Thor Bridge') #ValentinesDay
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'She had loved him as such women can love' ('Thor Bridge') #ValentinesDay
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'Ettie threw her arms round her lover's neck. 'Give it up, Jack! For my sake—for God's sake, give it up! ' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay ...
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'Besides, what is there to be afraid of? Are we not free folks in a free country? If you love me and I you, who will dare to come between?' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay
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'There was about him also that glamour of experience and of mystery which attracts a woman's interest and finally her love.' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay
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'There are the wheels, Watson. Quick man, if you love me!' ('The Dying Detective') #ValentinesDay
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'I swear to you, Mr Holmes, that there never was in this world a man who loved a woman with a more whole-hearted love' ('The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax') #ValentinesDay
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'I have never loved, Watson; ('The Devil's Foot') #ValentinesDay
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'For years I have loved her. For years she has loved me.' ('The Devil's Foot') #ValentinesDay
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'I love him so! I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.' ('The second Stain') #ValentinesDay
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'It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers.' ('The Abbey Grange') #ValentinesDay
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