Sherlock, John, and Trevor

About the Book

“Sherlock, John, and Trevor” is a collection of three stories. Sherlock Holmes is prominent in all three, which take place early in the 20^th century. The first two stories, “The Adventure of the Dozen Doctored Gutties” and “The Adventure of The Beleaguered Cub Fan” involve Sherlock Holmes visiting America. The third, “The Adventure of The Departed Loved Ones”, Sherlock Holmes has traveling to South America, Africa, and Asia in pursuit of an old nemesis. Dr. John Watson appears prominently in the first two stories. He has only a minor role in the third story. Trevor Waterford is prominent in all three stories and narrates the third story. As a child Trevor was a member of “The Baker Street Irregulars” and helped obtain vital evidence in many of Mr. Holmes’ cases.

In our first pastiche, baseball’s Hall of Fame pitcher and sports equipment mogul, A.G. Spalding, hires our trio to protect the famous golfer, Harry Vardon, in his pursuit of the first U. S. Open Golf Championship, in 1900. Vardon’s caddy has mysteriously fallen off a cliff in Scotland. Trevor Waterford becomes Harry’s new caddy.

The second pastiche involves the Chicago Cubs’ journey to the World Series of Baseball in 1906. Trevor Waterford is framed for the murder of a bookie. Sherlock Holmes visits quake ravaged San Francisco to solve a disappearance for A. P. Giannini, famous bank founder. On his way back to England, Holmes visits Chicago, in the nick of time for Trevor.

About the Author

C. C. Williamsen is the pen name of Charles William Clifford, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Charles attended the Catholic grade school, Our Lady of Victory.

The most significant thing he remembers there was the entire school chanting “Weasel, Weasel, Weasel” a name the pastor of the school, the Rev. Joseph Musch, had given him. “Charlie”, as he liked to be called, had braces and a paper route.

Charlie graduated from Brooklyn Center High School, a much friendlier place, in 1970. He was a member of the Golf and Basketball teams there. He was “OK” at golf, but a poor basketball player. He went on to earn a Biology degree from the University of Minnesota, in 1975. While a student, he worked as a busboy at La Casa Coronado and as a janitor at NWNL. He learned COBOL computer programming at NWNL and did that for twenty years. He also worked as a contractor at the Postal Service. Charlie now studies web programming at St Paul College, with the thought of maybe working as a programmer again some day, if he has to.

Charlie likes to read the original Sherlock Holmes stories, the “Canon” as they are known to Sherlockians. He often writes summaries of the monthly Sherlock Holmes Study Group meetings, which are held at 2PM, the third Saturday of each month, in a local library or at The University Club (at one time frequented by F. Scott Fitzgerald). Charlie has created two Sherlockian websites: “TheMinnesotaSherlockian.net” and “HolmesToATee.com”; the latter benefits the University of Minnesota Libraries. Charlie is very attached to his two Tabby cats, Annastasia and Cecelia.

Why does our author use the pen name of C. C. Williamsen? Charlie always thought Samuel Clemens was cool for having ‘Mark Twain’ for a pen name. Like they say, “‘Mark Twain’ is already taken.”