Watson was a woman????

Now I have been reading an amusing speculative treatise by that learned man's man of rugged history Rex Stout.

He declares without fear of disproval that Watson is a woman! 

Of course many of you will rear back in alarm - spluttering loud enough to wake the Diogenes yelling, "Nonsense!"
"Heresy!!", "Watson - a woman?!?", "Watson cannot be a woman!", "Holmes is a woman!", some of you, perhaps the bravest, may cough discreetly and declare, "I am a woman."

Well, be that as it may - let us put this aside, such melodrama is unbecoming to the reasoning mind, the deductive faculties are only clouded by emotion.

Let us consider instead more interesting areas of investigation.
If Watson was a woman - WHICH woman? Whom? Or even Who?
Was Watson Dr Who?

And suspects - well the canon is not short of these. Mary Morstan for example -whose name bears such a resemblance to MORAN that one wonders indeed if the dreaded Colonel, he of airguns and tiger hunting,
was in fact not so much the big game shooting, card cheating cad - but rather an irate Victorian father out to rid himself of the man that had made off with his daughter...
( A tangled skein... )

For Alek Morse - some very rough notes: Florizel, Holmes etc

This is an example of some of the notes i have been making in regard to Holmes/Florizel etc. i don't know if they are of any interest. The specific notes on productions; e.g. actors, script, filming etc are being piled through now! And i'll see what is worth posting.
( some words )