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Philip K Jones (aka The Ill Dressed Vagabond) is one of the USA's leading Sherlock Holmes Reviewers. Here he reviews 'Baker Street Beat' by Dan Andriacco - a collection of Holmes items that the Sherlock Holmes Society of London describes as "it gives you the same sort of feeling as when you're chatting over a drink with a knowledgeable fellow-Holmesian". "This is a collection of personal reminiscences, early fiction and literary commentary by a long-time Sherlockian. It contains a personal history of one man’s lifelong fascination with the Canon. It also presents glimpses of other Sherlockians, their personalities and foibles,...

From the District Messenger, the newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, comes a review of Dan Andriaccos unusual and fascinating new collecition of "scribblings" about Sherlock Holmes. "Baker Street Beat by Dan Andriacco is subtitled An Eclectic Collection of Sherlockian Scribblings, which sums up the book rather well. There’s nothing particularly profound or abstruse in its 140 pages. Rather, it gives you the same sort of feeling as when you’re chatting over a drink with a knowledgeable fellow-Holmesian. After explaining how he came to be an enthusiast – his principal allegiance is to the Tankerville Club of Cincinnati...