Sherlock Holmes Fan

I began reading Sherlock Holmes in high school, and was interested enough to read William S. Baring-Gould's "Annotated Sherlock Holmes." Today's NYT has a story that transported me back to that time, when I could actually curl up for hours on end with fiction. The story describes the work of Leslie S. Klinger, a Los Angeles lawyer, who is updating and expanding Baring-Gould's book. "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" runs 1,878 pages and includes more than 2,000 footnotes. This is, of course, child's play in comparison to Klinger's eight-volume set, "The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library." Unfortunately, I will not be reading any of Klinger's work. I am too busy attempting to decipher the mysteries of fiduciary oblication and venture capital contracts. If I need a Sherlock Holmes fix -- and it does happen from time to time -- I now turn to the Jeremy Brett adaptation, which ran on the PBS series "Mystery!" in the U.S. in the 1980s.