Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript - Hardcoverby Daniel D. Victor (Author) During his first trip to England in 1899, murder was the last thing that Hamlin Garland, the so called "Dean of American Letters," expected to find. More predictable were his descriptions of American baseball and visits with notables like Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw. Yet when Garland tells Sherlock Holmes of a suspicious death that occurred at Hearthstone Hall, the detective replies, "You have described the