Kay Allen Holmes was born April 11, 1933, in Arroyo Grande. He died Sept. 19, 2025, in Santa Barbara at the age of 92. Kay was preceded in death by his daughter, Karen Lee Holmes. He has left behind ...

IT is in the nature of literate humanity to be sentimental about Sherlock Holmes, to desire a more intimate knowledge of the man than his cases vouchsafe, to ferret out his creator's inconsistencies ...