Discussion of Possible Book Contents
Doyle provided no evidence relating to the contents of Dynamics. This has in no way prevented people from speculating about what it contained. Here are a few essays on this topic by some famous authors, and a list of many more references:
- "The Ultimate Crime", short story by Isaac Asimov, in Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, Severn House (UK), 1985. pp. 339–355. ISBN 0-312-94400-4
- "The Dynamics of An Asteroid", short story by Robert Bloch, The Baker Street Journal, 1953 (Also found in Marvin Kaye (ed.), The Game Is Afoot, St Martin's Press (USA), 1994. pp. 488–493 ISBN 0-312-11797-3)
- "The Adventure of the Russian Grave," short story by William Barton and Michael Capobianco, collected in "Sherlock Holmes in Orbit," Fine Communications (January 1997).
- In the novel Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six, by Adam-Troy Castro, a veiled reference is made to Moriarty and his Dynamics. Here the work is said to still be the authority on orbital bombardment.
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