Watson Writes: The Moncrieff Mystery - Bibliography
The following is an in-progress bibliography of works consulted whilst writing The Moncrieff Mystery. All of the works are freely available to read online.
Spoiler warningInevitably, the bibliography contains hints as to the game's content.
Sherlock Holmes (Canon)
Short stories
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/834
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/108
His Last Bow, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2350
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69700
Novels
A Study in Scarlet, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/244
The Sign of the Four, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097
The Hound of the Baskervilles, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2852
The Valley of Fear, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3289
Periodicals
Illustrated London News 1842-2003, https://archive.org/details/pub_illustrated-london-news
Misc
The Blue Book of the Thames Angling Preservation Society (London, 1881), https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Blue_Book_and_Rules/Xogm1I0G_c8C
Dickens’s Dictionary of London, 1882 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1882), https://archive.org/details/dickenssdictiona00dick
Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames, 1885 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1885), https://archive.org/details/dickenssdictiona1885dick
Encyclopaedia Britannica, VII, 9th edn (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877), https://archive.org/details/encyclopaedia-britannica-9ed-1875/Vol%207%20%28DEA-ELD%29%20193916234.23
A Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum (1909), https://archive.org/details/guidetoegyptianc00brituoft/
Post Office Guide (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1881), https://archive.org/details/BPOG1881
The Suburban Homes of London (London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Suburban_Homes_of_London/9zcQAAAAYAAJ
Toilers in London (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1889), https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Toilers_in_London/ATMNAAAAYAAJ
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Further details forthcoming.