3 MAY 1968, Page 30

'Eliminate the impossible ...'

Sir: Sir Paul Gore-Booth's review of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (26 April) contains the statement `. • the painful truth that the only automobile mentioned in the .canon is a Ford.'

This occurs, of course, in `His Last Bow.' However, near the beginning of this story we read: . . whose huge 100-horsepower Benz car was blocking the country lane. . .

John E. Robson Midwinter, Clapper's Meadow, Alfold, Cran- leigh, Surrey