Basil of Baker Street (Library Edition)

Baker Street Mice -- Beware!

So far the twins are safe. They'll stay that way if you do what we say. We've decided to make your Baker Street cellar the headquarters for our gang. Everybody must be out in 48 hours. It's Basil's job to move you all out, just the way he moved you in. Better make it fast! And leave the furniture -- we need it.

This is the only warning you'll get. And listen -- if you don't follow our orders, you'll never set eyes on those twins again!

Eve Titus (1908-2002) was the author of many children's books, including those about the French cheese-tasting mouse Anatole. Of Basil of Baker Street, Adrian M. Conan Doyle wrote to the author, "It is simply a wonderful creation, and I can assure you that my father would have revelled in every page." The book was also made into a Disney movie, The Great Mouse Detective, in 1986. Numerous Sherlockian collectors prize the Basil mysteries, which include Basil of Baker Street, Basil and the Cave of Cats (originally published as Basil and the Pygmy Cats), Basil in Mexico, Basil in the Wild West, and Basil and the Lost Colony.