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Introduction: One Reader's History
I'll be the first to admit that I have yet to read all of Morley's works: but I shan't let that stop me from writing about him nonetheless. I started as most people who like such things have done: I read The Haunted Bookshop, loaned to me by a one-time friend who occasionally had decent taste in literature. I read the book, enjoyed it a great deal, and promptly forgot about it for several years.
Then, as it usually happens, I stumbled across another copy of The Haunted Bookshop, this time a paper-bound edition from the early '80s. I bought it, re-read the book, and promptly began another of my quests. I decided to seek the remainder of Morley's works, and have been doing so, on and off again, for the past four years. I've recently found a cache of them at a second-hand bookshop in Kansas City, and am slowly buying up those that they have (although if you should write to me and ask nicely, I might tell you which shop it is...).
One of the few Morley titles still in print is, oddly enough, not really a book by Morley at all, rather, it is a collection of the author's essays on another of my secret vices, and deep and abiding love for the Sherlock Holmes tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Morley created a society, which he punningly called the Standard Doyle Company, to further the appreciation of Doyle's works in the United States. Those items collected in the book of the same name, The Standard Doyle Company (Fordham University Press, 1991), range from essays to introductions written for collections to poems and epigraphs.
-- more to come
-- William Nedblake
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