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COPY NO. 1 OF 100

The Very First Numbered Copy of the Limited Collector’s First Edition

There are planners you use for a year and throw away.

This is one you’ll want to keep—and this particular copy is the very first in the edition.

This is Copy No. 1 of only 100 individually numbered copies of the first edition of The Baker Street Casebook.

Inspired by Sherlock Holmes and the beautifully made books of the Victorian era, The Baker Street Casebook is a 6 × 9-inch luxury hardcover planner, journal, and curiosity book created for readers who still love the feel of a handsome book in their hands.

Bound as a substantial hardback, printed on carefully selected premium uncoated paper, and designed throughout in an elegant Victorian style, the Casebook feels less like an ordinary planner and more like a personal volume from the shelves of 221B Baker Street.

Inside is a practical dated planner covering October 2026 through December 2027, accompanied by Sherlock Holmes quotations, puzzles, forgotten expressions, period curiosities, observation challenges, and illustrations from the extraordinary world in which Holmes first appeared.

A YEAR OF CASES TO BE SOLVED

Each week becomes a new case log.

Record your appointments.

Make observations.

Keep track of matters requiring investigation.

Write down the things that absolutely must not be forgotten.

Turn the page and occasionally discover something unexpected from the Victorian world: a curious expression, a Sherlock Holmes quotation, an observation challenge, an old puzzle, or a classic illustration from the original age of The Strand Magazine.

INSIDE THE CASEBOOK

October 2026–December 2027

The planner begins in October 2026, so there is no need to wait until New Year’s Day to begin using it, and continues through the entire 2027 calendar year.

Weekly Case Logs

Thoughtfully designed weekly pages provide generous room for appointments, plans, observations, priorities, notes, and the week’s most important “case.”

Monthly Planning Pages

Plan ahead with monthly calendars for important dates, engagements, deadlines, travel, and other matters requiring attention.

Sherlock Holmes Quotations

Memorable lines selected from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original public-domain Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.

Sidney Paget Illustrations

Selected period illustrations by Sidney Paget, the artist whose drawings for The Strand Magazine helped establish the enduring visual image of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Victorian Curiosities

Small, strange, funny, and occasionally astonishing glimpses of nineteenth-century life drawn from genuine period books and reference works.

Passing English

Forgotten Victorian expressions drawn from J. Redding Ware’s remarkable Passing English of the Victorian Era.

Observation & Deduction

Short challenges inspired by Holmes’s famous principle that there is a considerable difference between seeing something and actually observing it.

Puzzles & Amusements

Occasional ciphers, number problems, card puzzles, and other diversions adapted from genuine nineteenth-century books of games, conjuring, puzzles, and popular amusements.

MADE AS A BOOK, NOT A DISPOSABLE PLANNER

This is a proper 6 × 9-inch hardcover book, designed to have the weight, texture, and presence of a small collector’s edition.

The substantial hardback binding is paired with a rich navy-and-antique-gold cover inspired by late-Victorian bookmaking.

Inside, the pages are printed on premium uncoated text stock, selected for its pleasing weight, warm tactile quality, and comfortable writing surface.

The format provides enough room to write naturally while remaining compact enough to carry in a briefcase, handbag, backpack, or travel bag.

The design deliberately avoids the glossy, disposable feeling of many mass-market planners. The result is something quieter and more substantial: a handsome volume to use every day and keep on the shelf when the year is over.

DRAWN FROM THE VICTORIAN BOOKSHELF

The quotations, historical facts, expressions, puzzles, and curiosities are drawn from identifiable public-domain works and historical sources.

Among them are Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon, J. Redding Ware’s Passing English of the Victorian Era, Francis Galton’s Finger Prints, Enquire Within Upon Everything, How to Become a Magician, collections of old English customs and curiosities, and other period works.

A source section identifies the historical books behind the material appearing throughout the Casebook.

COPY NO. 1 OF 100

The first edition of The Baker Street Casebook consists of only 100 individually numbered hardcover copies.

This is Copy No. 1—the very first numbered copy in the entire edition.

It will be marked:

FIRST COLLECTOR’S EDITION
No. 1 / 100

Because this is a dated 2026–2027 edition, this exact edition will never be printed again once the 100 copies are gone.

Future Casebooks may contain different dates, curiosities, puzzles, quotations, and illustrations—but this will always remain the first copy of the first edition.

THE BAKER STREET CASEBOOK

Copy No. 1 of 100
First Collector’s Edition
6 × 9-inch luxury hardcover
October 2026–December 2027
Premium uncoated writing paper
Victorian curiosities, puzzles, and quotations
Classic Sidney Paget artwork