Author: Fran Martin

Fran Martin became a member of The Bootmakers of Toronto in 1987 and The Stormy Petrels of B.C. in 1988. She has attended several Sherlockian conferences including: In 1992 "Aspects of Holmes" in Bradford, England (hosted by The Northern Musgraves); In 2006 "ACD at 35" in Toronto (hosted by The Bootmakers of Toronto); 2013 "Sherlock Holmes Through Time & and Place" in Minneapolis (hosted by The Norwegian Explorers); 2014 "Gillette to Brett IV" in Bloomington (hosted by Wessex Press); 2015 SherlockCon in Seattle; 2015 "A Scintillation of Scions VIII" in Baltimore (hosted by Watson's Tin Box); 2016 "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes" (hosted by The Norwegian Explorers); in 2018 in Dayton, Ohio for the "Holmes, Doyle & Friends" conference (hosted by the Agra Treasurers). Fran has held several positions with The Stormy Petrels of B.C. including secretary, vice-president, special events coordinator and is currently president and editor of the "Petrel Flyer". She was honoured with being awarded the title of "Master Bootmaker" in 2014. She was very pleased to present a paper to a meeting of Sir Hugo's Companions in Chicago in 2017. Fran has contributed articles to Canadian Holmes magazine, the Watsonian and Chris Redmond's "About Sixty" and "Sherlock Holmes is Like...". In May, 2018 she attended the 78th annual Speckled Band of Boston dinner. She was very honoured to have been one of the first women invited.

“Steel True, Blade Straight”

It has come to my attention, through Roger Johnson of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, that several items of interest to the Doylean world will go under the hammer later this week.

The items include: a signed studio prortrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; a photo of Sir ACD with Patrick Leckie Forbes in uniform; a sword which has a presentation inscription from ACD – the engraving reads: “P Leckie from his uncle A Conan Doyle 1915”

These items are estimated to go for 1,000 – 1,500 pounds.

Anyone interested in more information can contact Mr. Richard Bromell, Partner, at Charterhouse in Sherborne, Dorset: 011-44-1935-812277. The auction will take place on Friday, Sept. 25th.

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OCTOBER MEETING

Watson: “Well, I can’t possibly leave you.”
Holmes: “Yes you can, Watson. And you will, for you have never failed to play the game.”

The next regular meeting of the Stormy Petrels of BC will take place chez Wood, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:00 pm. The story for discussion will be “The Mazarin Stone”

Holmes: ” I am sure you will play it to the end.”

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“SILVER BLAZE” RACES

The next special event for the Stormy Petrels is our annual “Silver Blaze” race which takes place at “Toad Hall” on Saturday, Sept. 12th at 2:30 pm. The first race takes place at 3:00. A supper will follow the final race and presentation of the prizes.

New horses have been donated by Fred and the jockeys will sport the proper canonical colours as per the story (thanks to Len)

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SHERLOCK’S CAFE

The Stormy Petrels enjoyed a lively evening in this wonderful New Westminster estblishment thanks to Tim, who arranged the venue, and to Andy, the proprietor and host who supplied our refreshments and joined us for our meeting set among the vast variety of British sweets and treats and British football merch.

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