Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II by Bill Peschel

Author:Bill Peschel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Peschel Press
Published: 2016-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons

Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson

James Francis Thierry

One wonders why it took so long for someone to take the Holmes parody to novel length, but James Francis Thierry (b. 1887) gave it a game try as part of a contentious, undistinguished career notable in its variety. He started his career writing poetry, although one book (The Deluge of England and Other Poems, 1911) appears lost, and at 128 pages, the sole copy of another (Heaven; a poetic vision of the better part of the next world, 1927) is perhaps best left unread.

The same year that he published “The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons,” he ran for Congress in his native Ohio. His religion and anti-Prohibition stance drew the attention of The Menace, a virulent anti-Catholic newspaper, which lashed Thierry as a proponent of “Rome, rum and boodle” on its front page under the headline “Braying Papists for Congress.” He lost, but maintained his interest in politics by penning pamphlets defending Catholic politician Al Smith (The Protestant Plot Against Al Smith, 1928) and a scattershot satire of Franklin Roosevelt’s policies that left one wondering whose side he was on (When Roosevelt Is Dictator—and How!, 1936).

Thierry seemed to have a problem with authority figures of any kind. He was arrested in 1926 for sending a poison-pen letter to a magazine editor over the rejection of his travel article, and he sued the American Newspaper Guild when it refused to print the Roosevelt pamphlet. During World War II he supported the war effort by writing a poem, “Kill the Japs,” that was read into The Congressional Record. His last recorded work was in 1948 when he registered the copyright to Southern Old Timers, a comedy based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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