Foreword

The forty-eighth issue of the JSSE contains seven essays and two reviews. In “Coding and Decoding in ‘The Red Circle’” Edward H. Cohen reads an atypical Sherlock Holmes story in which he points out significant departures from the conventional patterns as strategies for decoding the shape and meaning of the case. His study of the above particulars leads him to claim that it stands as a milestone on the road to World War I and prefigures the ethnic violence that has littered the landscape of r..