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Episode 164: Sherlock Holmes, Popeye and More

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The town of Chester, Illinois contains a few interesting items. One is the Chester Baskerville Society. Another is the Popeye and Friends Character Trail. And the common bond between both of them is Mike McClure, BSI ("Stimson & Co."), a member of the Baker Street Irregulars.</div>
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Mike tells us about his involvement with Sherlock Holmes, about the early days of Elzie C. ("E.C.") Segar, creator of Popeye, and how the town of Chester and Sherlock Holmes are irrevocably connected with him. That led Mike to another mission: commissioning the first-ever permanent Sherlock Holmes statue in the United States.</div>
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We also learn about a new game called Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, which Mike is creating. Both the game and the statue hold an opportunity for Sherlockians and Sherlock Holmes societies to get involved and have themselves or their loved ones honored.</div>
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We also have another installment of "As We Go to Press" with Mattias Boström, co-editor of the <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/newspaper4.html"><i>Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers</i></a> series. Try your hand at the latest <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz, see if you can figure out the story we're referring to, and you might win a prize.<br />
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<li>This episode: <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose164" target="_blank">ihose.co/ihose164</a></li>
<li>Baskerville Productions (<a href="https://www.baskervilleproductions.com/">website</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/baskervilleproductions">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BaskervillePrd">Twitter</a>)</li>
<li>Get in touch with Mike: watson7654321 AT gmail DOT com</li>
<li><a href="http://popeye.com/timeline/">A history of Popeye</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chesterill.com/character-trail/">The Popeye and Friends Character Trail</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yrmHpwk5Yk">Private Eye Popeye (1954)</a></li>
<li>"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GV5o5xNqU">The Babbit and the Bromide</a>"</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/">The BSI Trust</a></li>
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Episode 164: Sherlock Holmes, Popeye and More

“clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea-jacket,” [SIGN] The town of Chester, Illinois contains a few interesting items. One...

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The Baker Street Almanac

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"An almanac!" [VALL] </h4>
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Titled "an annual capsule of a timeless past & future," the <i><a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/bsa.html?fbclid=IwAR00bbB0H3ymytRrxJnsvPL1w9oUxTGJxV3bkRrMm1CI7_0j_j6-h2WO79g">Baker Street Almanac</a></i> is the brainchild of Ross Davies, BSI ("The Temple"). Followers of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere may recall when Ross appeared on our show to discuss <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose137">Boxes from Royalty</a>.<br />
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Now in its second year, the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> is a publication of both print and electrons, and Ross indicated what this volume might be <a href="http://www.rossdavies.org/misc/Baker%20Street%20Almanac%20-%20readable%20(2018).pdf">in the inaugural edition last year</a>:<br />
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"If all goes well, next year’s <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> will not be like the scrap of paper you are holding now. It will be a plump book of Sherlockian data — substantial, elaborate, fact-and-fun-filled.  There will be records of — and refletions on — 2018: lists and timelines and tables and directories and maps and so on. And there will be sprinklings of miscellaneous morsels — all Sherlockian, or nearly so. It will be our first big “annual capsule of a timeless past and future.” And it will be available in two formats: electronic (for free online to all) and ink-on-paper (for a pittance to all who pay)." </blockquote>
Last year's edition also included an article from <i>Ford Times</i>, a magazine similar to <i>Reader's Digest</i> or <i>Yankee Magazine</i> published by Ford Motor Company (your editor's former employer — as you'll see below) from 1916:<br />
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"In 1916, Henry Ford and Arthur Conan Doyle spoke out on opposite sides of the question of American neutrality in World War I, as the editorials reproduced on page 2 of this edition of the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> show. But disagreement did not deter Ford and Doyle from capitalizing on each other’s iconic creations. Ford went first, using Doyle’s icon — Sherlock Holmes — to appeal to Britons to buy Ford cars. In August 1916, the Sherlockian parody, “ The Disappearance of Alice Nosegay” — featuring detective Sheerluck Jones — appeared in the U.K. edition of <i>Ford Times</i>, Ford Motor Company’s consumer-oriented magazine. (This was about a century before the brass at Ford got smart and hired "Corporal Henry Wood" to sharpen the cutting edge of their marketing communications.) In the story, a Ford car is an important prop in Sheerluck Jones’s successful romancing of Alice Nosegay.  The unspoken but obvious message: Find a Ford, find true love.  The original version of “ The Disappearance of Alice Nosegay” is reproduced on page 3 of this edition of the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i>."</blockquote>
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Due to the success of the first edition, Davies was able to recruit contributors for the 2019 edition of the <i>Almanac</i>, and we're all beneficiaries of this fine curatorial work. There are two versions of the 2019 <i>Baker Street Almana</i>c: the limited <i><a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/bsabuy.html">Sense of Humour Edition</a></i> (it features an ink-on-paper format, and some copies — to be honest, the ones that people actually pay for — include a few accessories), and the unlimited <a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/BSA2019.pdf">Staunch Witnesses Edition</a> (it features an electrons-on-internet format, and it is free).<br />
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What to expect in this edition:<br />
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<li>An around-the-world round-up of Sherlockian activities and organizations from all points of the globe</li>
<li>A full year of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</li>
<li>A year-by-year catalog of all I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere episodes</li>
<li>A listing of all Baker Street Babes episodes</li>
<li>A suggested Sherlockian library </li>
<li>A listing of artefacts in Denny Dobry's recreation of 221B Baker Street</li>
<li>Many commentaries</li>
<li>A look ahead at 2019</li>
<li>And much more!</li>
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Hop on over to the <a href="http://greenbag.org/BSA/bsa.html"><i>Green Bag</i> website</a> and see which version of the <i>Baker Street Almanac</i> appeals to you.<br />
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Charles Prepolec, BSI ("The Man with the Twisted Lip") shared the following on Facebook:<br />
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I'd posted about the 2019 Baker Street Almanac the other day, and ‪the print edition arrived yesterday. Card cover wrapped in a map, bound with ribbon and a postcard stuck on front. It’s a thing of beauty. I was almost loath to open it, it’s so lovely, but there was more within! The wrapper unfolds to a double sided 18 x 25.5 inch double sided map and poster, on one side a reprinting of ‘The Adventure of the Clothes-Line’ (1915) with great FDS illustrations reproduced and on the other side a cartographical presentation of ‘How Watson Learned the Trick’. The interior was not without surprises as well, a bookmark cryptically hand numbered numbered 3001, a reproduction Turf cigarette card and a Hound of the Baskervilles library punch card repro.<br />
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As always, I am in awe of the creative talent and effort expressed by BSI classmate, Ross Davies, in putting things like this together. This is a wonderful package. While you can read the contents free online, there's plenty to commend about the print edition.</blockquote>
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The Baker Street Almanac

"An almanac!" [VALL] Titled "an annual capsule of a timeless past & future," the Baker Street Almanac is the ...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – What a Gulli-Bull

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“the young giant's naive astonishment” [MISS] </h4>
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You'll recall that <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2019/02/baker-street-elementary-alls-well-that.html#.XIR81yhKjb0">in last our last Baker Street Elementary strip</a>, we discussed the connection between H.G. Wells and Sherlock Holmes, made through Manly Wade Wellman's work <i>Sherlock Holmes's the War of the Worlds</i>.<br />
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The original <i>The War of the Worlds</i> was developed into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)">a radio drama in 1938</a> by <i>The Mercury Theater on the Air</i> (more on that shortly) famously directed and narrated by Orson Welles (no relation to H.G.) on October 30, 1938. The production was so convincingly done that some listeners mistook it for a program of real news bulletins and some broadcasters called for better regulation of the new-ish audio medium.<br />
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The Mercury Theater on the Air was created by Orson Welles and first aired on July 11, 1938 on CBS Radio. Welles' idea was to adapt classic literary works to an hour-long radio drama and use his Mercury Theater repertory company (established in 1937). The first episode was <i>Dracula</i>, followed by <i>Treasure Island</i>. Interestingly, both Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson were contemporaries and associates of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br />
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But just one month prior to the now-infamous <i>The War of the Worlds</i> episode – on September 25, 1938 – the Mercury Theater performed an adaptation of William Gillette's play <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>. Welles took the title role, with Ray Collins as Dr. Watson (Collins later went on to portray Lt. Tragg in <i>Perry Mason</i> on television. Interested followers can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_gTHOCm4c">listen to the episode on YouTube</a>.<br />
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One other connection of interest: Orson Welles later went on to play Professor Moriarty in the <a href="https://archive.org/details/1CharlesAugustusMilverton">John Gielgud / Ralph Richardson radio adaptations</a> <i>The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> from 1955.<br />
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Collector Alert: Otto Penzler's Collection Up for Auction

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<b>"a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes" [EMPT] </b></h4>
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One look at the library of Otto Penzler's country home, and you'd think you're in a Barnes and Noble.<br />
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Otto's name is well-known in the world of detective and mystery fiction. He established <a href="http://mysteriouspress.com/">Mysterious Press</a> in the 1970s and opened <a href="https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/">The Mysterious Bookshop</a> soon thereafter. Each January during the BSI Weekend, Otto hosts an open house at his store for Sherlockians.<br />
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We've chatted with Otto twice before on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: once in <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose17">Episode 17</a> to talk about his collection and again in <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose87">Episode 87</a> on the release of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Sherlock-Holmes-Stories/dp/1101870893/">The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories</a></i>.<br />
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We were chatting with Otto during the BSI Weekend this year, and were surprised to learn that Otto's collection is up for sale (auction, really) over the next few years, <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946493+4294967055&type=friend-consignorpreview-notice">beginning next week</a>. Otto updates his Facebook page:<br />
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"The first sale has only about 300 books (of the 5,300 that Heritage Auctions will be selling over the next couple of years) but they are pretty terrific. If you would like to see some of the highlights of the American hard-boiled titles, plus a few other books, <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946493+4294967055&type=friend-consignorpreview-notice">here's the link</a>.<br />
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"The books will be exhibited at the Heritage New York office from noon Sunday [March 3] and on Monday and Tuesday, then the auction will be held at noon on Wednesday [March 6]. I'm deeply depressed about parting with my much-loved books but also looking forward to seeing what happens and what homes they will find. I was asked to write an introduction to the catalogue and a small piece for <i>National Review</i>, and have been extensively interviewed by a radio syndicate and the <i>New York Post</i>. The sale is a big deal in book collecting circles!"</blockquote>
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In <a href="https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/1502/Otto-Penzler-1.phtml">an interview</a> with <b>Nicholas Basbanes</b> (author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Madness-Bibliophiles-Bibliomanes-Eternal/dp/0979949157/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Gentle+Madness&qid=1551558255&s=gateway&sr=8-1">A Gentle Madness</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Among-Gently-Mad-Perspectives-Book-Hunter/dp/0805051597/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31PNSDWSTPVU7&keywords=among+the+gently+mad&qid=1551558297&s=books&sprefix=among+the+gentl%2Caps%2C178&sr=1-1-spell">Among the Gently Mad</a></i>) in <i>Fine Books and Collections</i>, Otto very correctly called his library of some 60,000 volumes “the greatest collection of mystery fiction you’ll find anywhere in the world.”<br />
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Otto isn't kidding. In browsing through the Heritage Auctions site of his collection, it's absolutely breathtaking. It certainly shows the discerning eye of an expert collector, with the attention to detail, multiple inscribed and signed first editions, and dust jackets galore.<br />
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Words alone can't describe what he's assembled. So, here are a few items from the current auction. Warm up your credit cards!<br />
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James M. Cain. <i><b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, association copy, inscribed by the author: "To Mr. Samuel Marx / A tough baby to / do business with. / He earns his money / James M. Cain." Samuel Marx was an author, screenwriter, and producer who worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the production company behind the 1946 adaptation starring Lana Turner and John Garfield. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/james-m-cain-the-postman-always-rings-twice-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-1934-first-edition-association-copy-i/a/6208-45015.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Raymond Chandler. <i><b>The Big Sleep</b></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper with the note: "With kindest regards." Donald A. Yates's copy with his ownership signature in ink. [Don Yates was a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and founder of the Greek Interpreters of Lansing.] <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/raymond-chandler-the-big-sleep-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-1939-first-edition-signed-by-the-author-on-the-fro/a/6208-45021.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Dashiell Hammett. <i><b>The Maltese Falcon</b></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. A remarkable copy, nearly fine in a near fine jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell case by Dragonfly Bindery. Perhaps the highspot of the hard-boiled canon. The first book to feature Sam Spade. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/dashiell-hammett-the-maltese-falcon-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-1930-first-edition/a/6208-45038.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Edgar A[llan]. Poe. <b><i>Tales</i></b>. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. First edition, first printing, with the copyright notice in four lines, and the imprints on the copyright page: "Stereotyped by T. B. Smith, 216 William Street, New York. H. Ludwig, Print." A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Queen's Quorum 1 ("the first important book of detective fiction, the first and the greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers' or collectors' guide, the highest of all highspots"). "The 1845 edition includes for the first time in book form all three Dupin stories - 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'The Mystery of Marie Roget,' and 'The Purloined Letter.' 'The Gold-Bug is also included, but not Poe's fourth detective story, Thou Art the Man'" (Queen's Quorum). <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/edgar-a-llan-poe-tales-new-york-wiley-andamp-putnam-1845-first-edition-first-printing-with-the-copyright-notice/a/6208-45061.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Anthony Boucher. <b><i>The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars</i></b>. New York: 1940. First edition, inscribed, with an advance copy. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/anthony-boucher-the-case-of-the-baker-street-irregulars-new-york-1940-first-edition-inscribed-with-an-adva-total-2/a/6208-45242.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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O. Henry. [Miniature Book]. <b><i>The Sleuths</i></b>. New York: 1914. First separate edition (?) with copyright certificate. About fine, housed in a custom clamshell case. Uncommon Sherlock pastiche, featuring Shamrock Jolnes. Originally issued in cigarette packages (Arcadia Falcone, "Sherlock Holmes's Infinite Case Book," Ransom Center Magazine, April 2013). <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/o-henry-miniature-book-the-sleuths-new-york-1914-first-separate-edition-with-copyright-certificate/a/6208-45303.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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<b>[Pinkerton Detective Agency]. Allan Pinkerton. Group of Sixteen Detective Books</b>. New York and Chicago: [1874-1884]. First editions, some inscribed. Sherlockians will recall the major role of Pinkerton's in <i>The Valley of Fear</i>. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/-pinkerton-detective-agency-allan-pinkerton-group-of-sixteen-detective-books-new-york-and-chicago-1874-1884-first-ed-total-16/a/6208-45329.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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And while the following don't specify that they're from Otto's collection, <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=49+793+794+792+2088+4294946447&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Nty=1&Ntt=Sherlock&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316">a search for "Sherlock Holmes"</a> in the <b>March 6 Rare Books Signature Auction Featuring The Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction, Part One</b> yields some astonishing results.<br />
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All 12 stories that appeared in <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, in their original monthly serial appearance in <i>The Strand Magazine</i>, July 1891 - June 1892. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-july-1891-june-1892-original-monthl/a/6208-45076.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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While you're at it, why not add all twelve stories from <i>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</i>? Original appearance in The Strand Magazine, December 1892 - December 1893. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-dec-1892-dec-1893-original-monthly-s/a/6208-45077.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Both of these collections can be had as book form, in their first editions published by George Newnes, 1892 and 1894, respectively. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-1892-first-edition-first-state-wit-total-2/a/6208-45083.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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Of course, Holmes had a brief hiatus (or an interminably long one, from the public's perspective) before returning in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, as serialized in nine issues of <i>The Strand Magazine</i>, August 1901 - April 1902. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-london-george-newnes-aug-1901-april-1902-original-monthly-s/a/6208-45078.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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<i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> officially occurred in the pages of <i>The Strand Magazine</i> from October 1903 - December 1904, in thirteen issues. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-return-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-oct-1903-dec-1904-original-monthly-se/a/6208-45079.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-SearchResults-120115&lotPosition=2|0">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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It took 14 issues over six years to complete the collection known as <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> in <i>The Strand Magazine</i>. <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/a-rthur-conan-doyle-the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes-london-george-newnes-oct-1921-april-1927-original-monthl/a/6208-45081.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515">Full listing here</a>.<br />
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That's exactly what Heather Holloway and Crystal Noll did, after discovering they each enjoyed Sherlock Holmes, albeit from two very different origins. Throw in the Canon, the BBC, Waffle House, and ground central for fan conventions, and you've got <a href="https://www.221bcon.com/">221B Con</a>.</div>
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As you'll hear, Heather and Crystal went about things all wrong. But they were successful beyond their wildest imagination, and now 221B Con is in its seventh year. Listen to how this fascinating and multifaceted event came together and what you can expect if you attend the next 221B Con in Atlanta from April 5-7, 2019.</div>
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Sherlock Holmes Brings Home Major Film Awards

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While most of the public was aware of or watched the 2019 Academy Awards last night, there was another Hollywood celebration of film happening. We of course refer to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards">Golden Raspberry Awards</a>, or the <b>Razzies</b>.<br />
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The role of Sherlock Holmes is much more complex and nuanced than the public typically understands. This means that actors need to turn in more than a two-dimensional performance. While no actor has received an award for playing Sherlock Holmes, there are actors who have played Sherlock Holmes and separately have received Academy Award nominations and/or the Oscar itself for Best Actor or Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Here is the list:<br />
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Played Justin Playfair, who thought he was Sherlock Holmes in <i>They Might Be Giants</i>. (1971)<br />Nominated for <i>Anatomy of a Murder</i> (1960), <i>The Hustler</i> (1962), and <i>The Hospital</i> (1972).<br />Won for <i>Patton </i>(1970).<br /><br /><br />
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Played Sherlock Holmes (voice only) in <i>Sherlock Holmes and A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, Sherlock Holmes and The Baskerville Curse, </i>and <i>Sherlock Holmes and The Valley of Fear</i> (1983)<br />Nominated for <i>Lawrence of Arabia</i> (1963), <i>Becket</i> (1965), <i>The Lion in Winter</i> (1969), <i>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</i> (1970), <i>The Ruling Class</i> (1973), <i>The Stunt Man</i> (1981), <i>My Favorite Year </i>(1983), and <i>Venus </i>(2007).<br />Won an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2003. <br /><br />
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Played Reginald Kincaid, an actor who was hired to play Sherlock Holmes in <i>Without a Clue</i> (1987)<br />Nominated for <i>Alfie</i> (1967), <i>Sleuth </i>(1973), <i>Educating Rita</i> (1984), and <i>The Quiet American</i> (2003).<br />Won for <i>Hannah and Her Sisters</i> (1987) and <i>The Cider House Rules</i> (2000).<br /><br />
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Played Sherlock Holmes in <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> (2009) and <i>Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows</i>. (2011)<br />Nominated for <i>Chaplin </i>(1993) and <i>Tropic Thunder</i> (2009)<br /><br />
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Okay, the reason you're here. The lips and tongue have spoken, and the Golden Raspberries for 2019 have brought four — count 'em, four — Razzies:<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — All's Well that Ends Wells

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“did you say you wished to travel?” [3GAB] </h4>
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 The genre of science fiction owes its beginnings to a handful of writers. Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) is perhaps one of the best known and the earliest. But H.G. Wells (1866 – 1946) was another, and he was a contemporary of Conan Doyle.<br />
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Naturally, there's an intersection between Wells and Sherlock Holmes, and it comes partly through the artifice of Manly Wade Wellman, BSI ("Wisteria Lodge") and his son. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman">Manly Wade Wellman</a> (not wanly made) was a science fiction writer of note whose association with Sherlock Holmes goes back to the early days of the BSI.<br />
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Ellery Queen included one of Wellman's stories in <i>The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, which was published and celebrated at the famed Trilogy Dinner in March 1944. And later on, together with his son, Wellman birthed <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes%27_War_of_the_Worlds">Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds.</a></i><br />
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Here, Peter Blau, BSI ("Black Peter") remembers Wellman in Vol. 36, No. 3 of <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-baker-street-journal/">The Baker Street Journal</a></i>:<br />
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Manly Wade Wellman, who died on April 1986, was a fine writer in the worlds of mystery, science fiction, and fantasy, and in ours. His 1941 pastiche “But Our Hero Was Not Dead” was chosen by Ellery Queen for reprinting in <i>The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, and his contributions to the <i>Journal </i>ranged from tales-in-verse to an article suggesting that Bertie Wooster’s valet Jeeves was Sherlock Holmes’s son. In 1975 he and his son Wade Wellman combined all of his enthusiasm in <i>Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds</i>, pitting Holmes, Watson, and Challenger against the invading Martians. The loss of his varied talents is sad indeed.</blockquote>
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Baker Street Elementary — All's Well that Ends Wells

“did you say you wished to travel?” [3GAB] The genre of science fiction owes its beginnings to a handful of writers. Jules Verne (...

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by Scott Monty

Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Who Will Never Die

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"That seems final, does it not?" [BRUC]</h4>
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In 1927, when <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes</i> was published, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in its preface that "Mr. Sherlock Holmes may become like one of those popular tenors who, having outlived their time, are still tempted to make repeated farewell bows to their indulgent audiences."<br />
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Outlived his time, never; but farewell bows, yes indeed, and frequently, in the 60 canonical tales created by Conan Doyle and John H. Watson over a 40-year period. Thus it is no surprise that in one of the later tales, "The Three Garridebs," Watson cheerfully remarks that this adventure "is not the first we have shared, Holmes. I hope it may not be the last."<br />
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Indeed it was not. But behold a list of the stories—no fewer than ten of them—that were, in their day, the "last" Sherlock Holmes story:<br />
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<b><i>A Study in Scarlet</i> (1887) </b></h3>
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The original published adventure of Sherlock Holmes, and with no hint that there might ever be a second one, it was last as well as first.<br />
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<b><i>The Sign of the Four</i> (1890) </b></h3>
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A more sophisticated novel than its predecessor, <i>The Sign of the Fou</i>r again appeared with no indication that a series was in prospect. Indeed, Watson tells Holmes as the adventure ends that "I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods."<br />
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<b>"The Final Problem" (1893) </b></h3>
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This came as the 24th short story in a quick succession following those two novels. Its title could hardly be clearer as an indication that it was meant to put a period (in British terms, a full stop) to the detective's career. Indeed, Watson describes it as "the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished". <br />
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<b><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> (1902) </b></h3>
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While this was definitely a new story, it was antedated to avoid the implication that Sherlock Holmes lived again. Doyle said that it was "a reminiscence, not a resurrection" of Holmes. It was definitely a one-off, the 27th story and, for a time, the last.<br />
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<b>"The Abbey Grange" (1904) </b></h3>
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This was one of the short stories that would soon be collected in <i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i>. Nothing in the tale itself suggests that it might become the last adventure, but in "The Second Stain,"  published just a month later (see below), Watson writes that he "had intended" "The Abbey Grange" to be the last "which I should ever communicate to the public."<br />
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<b>"The Second Stain" (1904) </b></h3>
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Coming at the end of <i>The Return</i>, this was a natural stopping-place for a reluctant author. And Conan Doyle prefaces it with an unusually long, and unusually dull, first paragraph in which he explains that Holmes has now retired and "notoriety has become hateful to him." As a result, he says, there will be no more: "this long series of episodes should culminate in the most important international case."<br />
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<b>"His Last Bow" (1917) </b></h3>
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"His Last Bow" is the story of Holmes's involvement in espionage before World War I, a later era than is reflected in any of the other canonical stories, and its title — subsequently borrowed for the entire collection in which it appears — strongly suggests that the hero detective would appear on the stage no more.<br />
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<b>"The Lion's Mane" (1926)</b> </h3>
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This tale one of the stories that would be collected in <i>The Case-Book of Sherlock Holme</i>s. Nothing in it actually says that there will be no further tales, but it is set in 1907, at or beyond the end of Holmes's career, and told in Holmes's own voice, rather than that of Watson, because it is set "after my withdrawal to my little Sussex home," when detective and doctor have almost lost contact. <br />
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<b>"Shoscombe Old Place" (1927) </b></h3>
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This was in fact the last of the Doyle/Watson tales ever to be published. It is very suitable for that position: a story of degeneration, death, and old bones, whose final words are "old age."<br />
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And yet when <i>The Case-Book</i> was compiled and published in 1927, to be followed by <i>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</i> in 1930, "Shoscombe Old Place" no longer stood last.<br />
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<b>"The Retired Colourman" (1926)</b></h3>
That honour of the last story, if it can be called such, eventually went to "The Retired Colourman," another 1926 story, and another story about the bleakness of old age. Perhaps the reference to retirement was the reason for placing it last, or perhaps it was the sentence that now stands at the very end of the volume for a reader who goes through the Canon in order: "Some day the true story may be told." <br />
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Until it is, <i>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</i> is, like Holmes's own monograph about the polyphonic motets of Lassus, "said by experts to be the last word upon the subject." One might also quote Holmes himself, from "The Norwood Builder":<br />
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For the stories just keep coming. In 1948, "The Man Who Was Wanted" was published as the 61st canonical tale, and it took a considerable while before evidence surfaced that its author was neither ACD nor Watson but Arthur Whitaker. In 1978, Michael Dibdin wrote a pastiche under the title <i>The Last Sherlock Holmes Story</i>, and in 2004 Michael Chabon produced <i>The Final Solution: A Story of Detection</i>. <br />
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But neither book was the end, and the end is not yet in sight. We may hope that it never will be.<br />
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[<b><i>Editor's note</i></b>: <i>today, February 21 (or 2/21 in U.S. calendar format) would seem to be the perfect day to review <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/10/celebrate-national-poetry-day.html#.XG7BEOhKjb0">Vincent Starrett's iconic poem "221B,"</a> which contains the lines "Here dwell together still two men of note / Who never lived and so can never die"</i>]<br />
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