I have not yet found references to ACD's work with Scotland Yard but he was
a regular reader, it seems, of a weekly magazine called 'Truth' and also
'the Police Review'. He refers to these magazines in a letter to The Daily
Telegraph on March 11 1907 in which he mentions the Edalji case. This was
just one of a quick series of letters on this case, to The Daily Telegraph,
but also to The British Medical Journal (19 January 1907), the latter on
myopic astigmatism - Mr Edalji was accused of mutilating a pony in a large
field, by night. Doyle was very 'Holmesian' in this letter, stating:



'Do you consider it physically possible for Mr George Edalji.... to have set
forth without glasses on a pitch dark night with neither moon nor stars: to
have crossed country for half a mile, climbing fences, finding gaps in
hedges, and passing over a broad railway line; to have found and mutilated a
pony which was loose in a large field, to have returned half a mile, and to
have accomplished it all under thirty-five minutes, the limit of the
possible time at his disposal?'



The point was Mr Edalji suffered sever myopic astigmatism which would have
markedly compounded the difficulty of undertaking any such enterprise.



-----Original Message-----
From: SherlockHolmesSocietyofIndia@...
[mailto:SherlockHolmesSocietyofIndia@...] On Behalf Of pinaki
roy
Sent: 20 November 2005 13:31
To: sherlockholmessocietyofindia@...
Subject: [sherlock holmes society of india] What's the matter?



Dear Sherlockians,



It is really strange but for the last few weeks I have been
noticing a remarkable period of inactivity for the esteemed Sherlockians!
What is the matter? Is it not high time that we began writing again?



Sir Doyle, after the death of his first wife, worked with the Scotland
Yard as a detective for a few weeks. Can any one throw more light on this?



Yours sincerely,



Pinaki Roy















From:



Pinaki Roy,

Lecturer,

Department of English,

Faculty of Post-graduate Studies,

Malda College





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