Jim Beaver writes:
>BTW, according to Baring-Gould, I think, Wolfe was
Holmes's illegitimate
>son, or some such. At least he provided some amusing
interconnections in
>his book on Wolfe.
Correct. B-G's view was that Wolfe and Marko Vucic
(proprietor of Rusterman's) were in fact twins (presumably
fraternal) born to Irene Adler as the result of an affair
with The Great Detective. He gives their birthplace as
Trenton, NJ, which offers one possibility as to the mystery
of whether Wolfe is a native of America (he states
unequivocally in one book whose title escapes me at the
moment that he was "born here," but Wolfe lies a lot) or of
Serbo-Croatia. There used to be a group called The Wolfe Pack
which was similar in purpose to the Baker Street Irregulars,
and some of the ideas expressed in Baring-Gould's NERO WOLFE
OF WEST 35TH STREET is drawn from papers delivered at Wolfe
Pack gatherings. I've no idea if the group is still active.
PB
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