Darlene A Cypser
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Darlene A Cypser

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Darlene is an attorney, author, and historian. She has been an avid follower of Sherlock Holmes for over 50 years.

She was Chief Surgeon of Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients, the Colorado scion of the Baker Street Irregulars, from 2012 to 2024. She is also a member of the Hudson Valley Sciontists and The Hounds of the Internet.

Her first Sherlock Holmes novel was The Crack in the Lens which is followed by The Consulting Detective Trilogy. Combined the four novels tell the story of the young Sherlock Holmes surviving tragedy at 17 and his struggles and triumphs to become the Great Detective. She is currently working on a fifth book related to that series: The Adventures of Jonathan Beckwith. After that is complete she intends to write a biography of Doctor Watson.

In 2026 Darlene began publishing Trifles: A Quarterly for Devotees of Sherlock Holmes a journal filled with essays, fiction, games, trivia quizzes and illustrations.

The Baker Street Journal (the official publication of the Baker Street Irregulars) published four of her essays: “Barker, The Hated Rival” and “A Capital Mistake: An Apocryphal Rebuttal,” in the 1980s, "Adventures in Copyright" in 2014, and "This Singular Business: Observations and Deductions on 'The Musgrave Ritual' in 2025.
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She is licensed to practice law in Colorado. She has a Master of Arts degree in U.S. History concentrating on the 19th century. She taught Colorado History and History of the American West at the Community College of Denver from 2019 to 2021.

Darlene's first fiction published was a ghost story published in October 1992 by the Boulder Daily Camera. Darlene has written number of papers and articles which were published in magazines and professional legal and scientific journals on international space law, liability for induced seismicity, landlord and tenant law, intellectual property law, tax law and motion picture production and distribution.
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