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gasogene

[ gas-uh-jeen ]

noun



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While saying hello to Steven Doyle of Gasogene Books — the field’s leading publisher — I learned that he had just revived the Sherlock Holmes Review.

Yet another Gasogene title might have been designed expressly for me: “The Finest Assorted Collection: Essays on Collecting Sherlock Holmes,” edited by Peter Eckrich and Rob Nunn.

Bostrom even mentions various specialty publishers, including Gasogene Books, for which he and Matt Laffey have been compiling “Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers,” an ongoing series of archival volumes reprinting hundreds of early reviews and articles about the detective, a true labor of love — like so much that goes on in the Sherlockian world.

He gives an engaging account of his first contact with Sherlock Holmes while growing up in Montana, puzzing over the unfamiliar Victorian objects and regalia: “A gasogene? A tantalus? New Coke had just come out.”

"I thought prapss you want to fiss," she replied, turning away and looking at the gasogene of black water again.

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