Philip Farmer - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Peerless Peer

The true name of the ducal mansion Watson called Holdernesse Hall in “The Adventure of the Priory School.” A description of the estate is found in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Editor.

For a fuller description of this involvement, see my definitive biography of Lord Greystroke. Editor.

It is the English custom to address the sons of noblemen with an honorary title, though legally the sons are commoners. The duke had several secondary titles, the highest of which was Marquess of Saltire. Thus, the duke’s son was known as Lord Saltire. Editor.

The parentheses are the editor’s. Watson had crossed out this phrase, though not enough to make it illegible. Editor.

This disclosure definitely invalidates some of my speculations and reconstructions in my biography of Greystoke. These will be corrected in a future issue. Lord Greystoke himself had admitted that Holmes’ theory is correct. See “Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystoke,” Mother Was A Lovely Beast , Philip José Farmer, editor, Chilton, October 1974.

The parentheses are the editor’s, indicating another passage crossed out by Watson.

Apparently, Watson forgot to describe Holmes’ comment. Undoubtedly, he would have inserted it at the proper place in the final draft.

The Evil In Pemberley House , Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert, Subterranean Press, 2009.

Interestingly, both Peer and “Madmen” may have been different drafts written by Watson, and each manuscript may contain large elements of the truth, despite the replacement of the Jungle Lord in Peer by Mowgli in “Madmen.” Dennis E. Power has reconciled the two manuscripts in “Jungle Brothers, or, Secrets of the Jungle Lords,” Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe, Win Scott Eckert, ed., MonkeyBrain Books, 2005.

In fact, the Ape-Man’s ire had significantly cooled by the late 1990s, enough to allow Farmer to write an authorized entry in the series of semi-biographical novels covering his adventures. Farmer’s The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel was published by Del Rey Books in 1999.

It appeared in the aforementioned collection Venus on the Half-Shell and Others .

“O’Brien And Obrenov,” Adventure, V. 115, N. 5, March 1946; Pearls from Peoria , Paul Spiteri, ed., Subterranean Press, 2006.