Table of Contents

Introduction - Joseph Coppola                                     

 1
   
The Master of Disinformation - Joseph W. Moran ,             2
Mycroft Holmes - David Forest Hitchcock                            30

Mycroft's Journal - E.W.McGinley                                      

 32
Mycroft - Stu Shiffman                                                           40

Images of Mycroft - Mary Campbell                                  

41

The Diogenes Club - J. Randolph Cox                          

72
Sherlock Holmes in Disguise - Stu Shiffman                       75

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

 in re: Mycroft Holmes - Bruce D. Aikin                         

76
Holmes and Watson - Stu Shiffamn                                       90

Brother Mycroft - Joan Brieaddy                                     

 

 93

The Adventure of the Unanswered Correspondence

 - Greg Hmiel                                                                          

94

Mycroft as the Ultimate Holmes - Joan Brieaddy              

 

 100
Sherlock Holmes Master of Espionage - Carl L. Heifetz     109

The Great Mycroft Hoax (or Why Doyle Did it)

 - Don Dillistone                                                                     

120
Mycroft Holmes Private Detective - J. Randolph Cox 126

Brothers in Arms - Rosemary Michaud                                

133

Sherlock Holmes - Stu Shiffman                                          

 

 152
Occasionally the British Government - E.W. McGinley      153

Introduction

Mycroft Holmes naturally occupies a special place in the hearts of the members of the Mycroft Holmes Society of Syracuse.  Since there seems to be a scarcity of publications completely devoted to brother Mycroft we decided to assemble a collection of poems, scholarship, art, and pastiche about Mycroft.  This has taken about five years longer than originally anticipated but here it finally is.

My profound thanks to the many authors who have waited patiently to see their words in print and my heartfelt gratitude to Carol Cavalluzzi and my wife Elaine for their efforts in proofreading and their encouragement to complete this project.

It is in The Greek Interpreter that Sherlock Holmes describes his brother as having "…better powers of observation than I…" and being "…seven years my senior."  In The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans we learn that Mycroft has made a specialism of omniscience within the government and as Sherlock says, "You would be also right in a sense if you said that occasionally he is the British Government."

So come with me now, from his Pall Mall lodgings to Whitehall and the Diogenes Club where we will be introduced to Mycroft Holmes by those who know him best.