Investigate a Literary Legend

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Book Club of California

312 Sutter
San Francisco, CA 94108

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Region: North Beach/ Chinatown

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The many interpretations of Sherlock Holmes floating around in the multimedia ether make it too easy to forget his literary roots. (The current BBC series Sherlock is outstanding; the overblown Guy Ritchie movies starring Robert Downey Jr. are not.) For those who would like to sweep away the mythologizing and mediafication, get thee to the exhibition “You Know My Methods: A Collector’s Approach to the Sherlockian Canon.” Thirty-five years in the making, Glen S. Miranker’s collection of Holmesiana began as a way to balance his graduate studies in computer science. Miranker went on to become a long-serving vice president at Apple Inc. Now, the Book Club of California — which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year — draws from Miranker’s collection to display original manuscript pages and Sidney Paget illustrations from one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s best-known Holmes novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Also included in the exhibition are pieces of related ephemera, such as playbills and posters from the many stage and film adaptations of Baskervilles. The exhibition opens today with Miranker discussing the evolution of his collection and the items on display.
Mon., June 4, 5 p.m., 2012