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Uncle Sherlock's Archives 100 Years Later
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Introduction:

Students of "...the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen..." will recall Mr. Sherlock Holmes telling Dr. Watson in The Adventure of the Empty House that he had stopped in France on his way home at the end his Great Hiatus: "Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpellier, in the south of France." While in Montpellier, Sherlock Holmes stayed with one of his close cousins, one of the Vernets.

A year before the passage of his good and worthy Soul, Sherlock Holmes shipped some twenty-six large steamer trunks to his cousin's daughter in Montpellier. Her father had passed away some time earlier. Sherlock Holmes adored his cousin's daughter; a brilliant, devoted and godly child, who grew even more so as she grew into a saintly mademoiselle. Their mutual affection for each other was that Sherlock Holmes considered her a daughter; she considered him son 2eme pere.

The large, wood steamer trunks were identical in size and each contained nine identical tin chests inside; packed and stacked tightly together. Each tin chest was completely stuffed full of bags made of waterproof Scottish tartan fabric, tied tight with a leather thong. Printed in big, bold, black letters on each bag was: The Sherlock Holmes Archives. The Sherlock Holmes Archives? Yes! Yes! Yes! Mon Dieu! C'est pas possible! Voila! The Sherlock Holmes Archives! The bags held The Sherlock Holmes Archives:

The Sherlock Holmes Archives
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Case files, records, notes, files, documents, diaries and other collected materials! A lion's share of the bags held prodigious files with copious notes from Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on countless unpublished cases. Dr. Watson named some of the unpublished cases in the adventures that he published!

In his own "precise hand," Sherlock Holmes penned an extensive Preface giving detailed instructions that he entitled The Sherlock Holmes Archives Preface:

The Sherlock Holmes Archives Preface
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Sherlock Holmes gave strict orders the unpublished cases were not to see the light of day for 100 years. Only then could they be published by a direct descendent, with similar God-given talents, graces and gifts.

Sherlock Holmes retired in 1903, it is now 2003, exactly 100 years later, and I am that descendent: "The Bonny Rich Gannon." His heirs en France chose me for good reason; like Sherlock Holmes, I invented my livelihood; I am Rich Gannon, the global industrialist who founded TUTT Global Industries:

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TUTT - Technologies United Trade Trust - does business with many companies and TUTT Agents in many countries around the world; trading and dealing with factories, agricultural production and food processing, industries and industrials, manufacturing and consumer goods, general commerce and trade.

Perhaps it's more accurate to say Providence forced TUTT upon me. As long as I can remember, way back into my childhood, I've felt like a bullheaded calf being pulled around, being broke to lead by Providence, like I used to do to bullheaded calves. But just the opposite of Sherlock Holmes, who discovered things, I build TUTT pages so the world will find those pages fast! "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." That's what Providence did to TUTT. The business potential is unlimited.

Sherlock Holmes once reminisced about his ancestry in The Greek Interpreter, he told Dr. Watson: "My ancestors were country squires, ...my grandmother, ...was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms." Sherlock's grandmother and my great-great-great-grandmother were one and the same Vernet: Miss Camille Vernet!

Sherlock Holmes was my great-great-great-great uncle on my mother's side of the family. Uncle Sherlock's grandmother was the sister of Horace Vernet; her name was Camille Vernet, she married Hippolyte Lecomte. There's more, but Uncle Sherlock doesn't want the world to know too much, too fast; I must follow the instructions he wrote in The Sherlock Holmes Archives Preface.

Uncle Sherlock's grandfather married his bride Miss Camille Vernet when her father Carle Vernet and grandfather Claude-Joseph Vernet were already famous French painters; her brother young Horace was on the same horse, following in their footsteps:

Father: Claude-Joseph Vernet, Famous French Painter, 1714-1789
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Son: Carle Vernet, Famous French Painter, 1758-1836
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Grandson: Horace Vernet, Famous French Painter, 1789-1863
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Family legend, Gannon folklore, a tall fairy tale from Irish leprechauns: that's what I reckoned when I heard Sherlock Holmes was kin to me. Who hasn't heard somebody famous is in their lineage? Adam and Eve are!

My Pa's side of the family, the Gannon side, were also country squires, so to speak in Iowa/Irish talk. We were pretty well off, except through the damned Depression, because we owned eight hundred acres of high ground, milked cows and raised beef cattle, hogs, chickens and turkeys. On the old Gannon plantation in central Iowa is where I grew up; twenty miles N.E. of Des Moines, as the crow flies. It was settled in 1857 by my great-great-great grandparents, John & Mary Gannon, coming from a farm in County Kilkenny, in S.E. Ireland. The 7th generation is now growing up on the Gannon Farm in Iowa.

My great-great-great grandpappy John Gannon was born 5 years before Horace Vernet was born and died 3 years after Horace died; thus making John, Horace and Camille the same generation in my kinfolk:

Map of Unmarked Graves of John & Mary Gannon
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The same Gannon family is on the same farm in Iowa and Ireland today. My Ma and Pa had 14 kids: 7 girls & 7 boys, I'm lucky kid #7. Pa said they changed Popes on him 3 times but never changed the rules! God willing and the wife holds up, we'll beat Ma and Pa and have more than 14 kids! What else is there? The twins are named Sherlock and Watson.

Gannon Farm may have the oldest and largest family-owned purebred Black Angus herd in Iowa. Once, Pa took an Angus bull to the local sale barn. The auctioneer yelled out: "This here bull is owned by John Gannon, sire of 14 kids." A farmer in the crowd yelled back: "To hell with the bull, bring out John Gannon!"

Uncle Sherlock Holmes was born in 1853, I was born exactly one hundred years later in 1953, on a Friday the 13th; in November, the Korean War ended July 27 that year. My international business career started in 1973, after my first year at college, I joined the Peace Corps and was away from home for three years straight. Lord, how I sorely missed my dear ol' Mammy and mean old Pa and the cows and pigs and farm.

From November 1973 to June 1974, I served in Southern Afghanistan like Dr. Watson did 100 years earlier. Not surprisingly, Providence put Maiwand in my territory for agricultural and business development. Dr. Watson was shot in the Second Anglo-Afghan War at the Battle of Maiwand in 1880, on another July 27. The one-eyed murdering coward Mullah Omar was born in Maiwand and founded the Taliban terrorists in Maiwand.

After six months amid the poppy fields of Southern Afghanistan, where I learned Pushtu, the Russians were moving in, so I moved on to Africa and the Sahara Desert, like Uncle Sherlock did during his Great Hiatus, but not to the English Sudan like Sherlock, I went to the French Sudan, to Mali, the former Soudan Francaise, French West Africa. There I learned French and Bambara, and spent a glorious 2 ½ years amid gentle and courteous tribes of paysans, herders, farmers, fishermen and commercants.

The gracious people of beautiful Mali made my heart bloom, flower and overflow; I was changed forever, grace a Dieu, Dieu merci. Christmas 1975 was feted in Timbuktoo, deep in the Sahara of Mali on that great River Niger; the river I love the most, with handsome river people like no other. Oh, what funny hippos in the underwater meadows of the tres belle Lac Debo!

Au Mali, she's Heaven and Hell. Blest with an idyllic life because of her God-loving people, yet cursed with the slavery of poverty and dreaded diseases like: 1) malaria, I had 7 feverious bouts of it; 2) onchocerciasis or river blindness, transmitted by the stinging bite of black flies; and 3) schistosomiasis, I caught it while swimming, transmitted by a river snail; in Bambara: ngeganne blemon, meaning "red urine," a term that tells the terrible things it does to the body. I am stupidly proud to say I had all three!

Uncle Sherlock said his genius was hereditary and that his older brother Mycroft had it to a larger degree. My inherited traits took me around the world and turned me into a global industrialist; but I grew up milking cows, milking cows is my love and all I ever wanted to do; milking cows is still what I'd rather be doing today, but Providence has another idea for the time being.

Nobody is going to believe this, and rightfully so; I don't believe it myself—and I have just begun! In the Spring of 2003, the steamer trunks came into my possession from France. There's too much material to chronicle everything in The Sherlock Holmes Archives right away. And there are too many cases to write out as adventures right now. Since I am not a writer, I need help from people who can write adventures from notes that I send to them from The Sherlock Holmes Archives. We may start publishing online a few cases that Dr. Watson named in the adventures that he published.

Dr. Watson wrote in The Musgrave Ritual that Sherlock Holmes "...had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases...One winter's night, as we sat together by the fire,...as he had finished pasting extracts into his commonplace book,...he went off to his bedroom, from which he returned presently pulling a large tin box behind him. This he placed in the middle of the floor, and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages. 'There are cases enough here, Watson,' said he, looking at me with mischievous eyes. 'These are the records of your early work, then?' I asked. 'I have often wished that I had notes of those cases.' 'Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.' He lifted bundle after bundle in a tender, caressing sort of way."

Dr. Watson's files and notes are here! Dr. Watson wrote in The Second Stain: "...I have notes of many hundreds of cases to which I have never alluded..." Dr. Watson wrote in The Solitary Cyclist: "...From the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive, Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a very busy man. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any difficulty in which he was not consulted during those eight years, and there were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most intricate and extraordinary character, in which he played a prominent part. Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. As I have preserved very full notes of all these cases, and was myself personally engaged in many of them, it may be imagined that it is no easy task to know which I should select to lay before the public..."

Dr. Watson recorded Sherlock's habit of spending days at indexing information. Surely, Sherlock Holmes would have indexed his own archives. And of course he did. Uncle Sherlock indexed his cases and materials in the The Sherlock Holmes Archives in an index that he rightfully entitled The Sherlock Holmes Archives Index:

The Sherlock Holmes Archives Index
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The cases that I'll put online right now are already written up as adventures by Uncle Sherlock or Watson, but many adventures only have notes in the files pertaining to the particular cases. It takes times to decipher what they wrote and understand the case completely, then time to write the adventure.

Crime is not my passion, I hate crime, I don't watch crime shows on TV, I need help to write the adventures, I invite others who wish to complete these adventures to contact me; I will be happy to send you copies of Uncle Sherlock's case files so that you can try your hand at writing an adventure or two. God knows there are "...cases enough..." in The Sherlock Holmes Archives.

Never in my life have I written such; I cannot write like dear ol' Dr. Watson, I cannot mold a plastic pastiche. Pastiche sounds too much like Pastis, instilling a mighty dry thirst and a hankering for that delicious licorice aperitif francaise that leads to something more substantial; which is what you will see and read and feast upon, down to cracking les os to get to the tasty marrow: Uncle Sherlock's and Dr. Watson's handwritten notes and archival materials verbatim!

However, there are places in Uncle Sherlock's cases with barn size holes that leave me hog-tied. The holes must be accurately filled in by good writing, extensive study, consulting experts, maybe going back to England, etc. With my poor imagination and writing style, it ain't gonna be me. Running international business is all I've ever done, that's all I can do. With this thrust upon me, Lord knows what Providence and Uncle Sherlock will try to do with The Sherlock Holmes Archives. Please contact me anytime:

Sincerely:

Mr. Rich Gannon
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The Sherlock Holmes Archives
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The Sherlock Holmes Archives Preface
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The Sherlock Holmes Archives Index
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That Little Affair of the Vatican Cameos
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The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
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The Adventure of the Treptoff Murder
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The Bishopsgate Jewel of Great Price
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