BBB Sites of the Week

The Bogus-Boggess Blog (BBB) features cool "site-ings" each Friday. ... Surely, you have had an experience where you recall details about a "story-within-a-story", like "Wasn't there a story about a giant rat referenced in some Sherlockian tale? What was it called? For that matter, in which Sherlock Holmes adventure was it mentioned?"

For those moments, you need a reference that lists fictitious books (or monographs) included in actual works of literature. Could there be such helpful information available at your fingertips? You bet! Just surf over to invisiblelibrary.com, look up author Doyle, and scroll down the listings. There it is, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire with the story-within-a-story called "The Giant Rat of Summatra" (which, by the way, was the title of a great comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre).