I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 119: A Brace of Interviews

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We were pleased to see <b>Lynsday Faye, BSI</b> ("Kitty Winter") at an event at Otto Penzler's Mysterious Bookshop, launching her newest book <i>The Whole Art of Detection</i>. We managed to take her gently by the elbow and lead her away from her admiring fans to have a few words. Those words included "Watson," "Doyle," "voice," and many others. You'll enjoy the way they're strung together with this multiple-Edgar nominated author.</div>
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And at a separate event at the Rosenbach Library, we met <b>Ed Pettit</b>, the new manager of public programs for the institution. He gave us a rundown of the latest exhibit, "Clever Criminals and Daring Detectives," touching upon Poe, <i>Dracula</i>, and the original manuscript of "The Adventure of the Empty House."</div>
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1:32 It's time!<br />
4:17 Sponsor: Wessex Press<br />
5:45 Hand-crafted ads like no other<br />
7:02 A brace of interviews<br />
10:16 Welcome Irregular, Adventuress of Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street Babe, and author Lyndsay Faye<br />
19:43 The Jezzail Bullet cocktail<br />
20:41 Sponsor: The Baker Street Journal<br />
22:12 Visiting the Rosenbach Library with the Ancient Order of Free Sherlockians<br />
24:23 Welcome Edward G. Pettit, Manager of Public Programs for the Rosenbach<br />
36:09 Letters between Rosenbach and Christopher Morley, and a report from the Amateur Mendicant Society of Detroit<br />
39:23 Don't forget...<br />
40:31 The Sherlock Holmes Brand Hansom Cab<br />
42:26 The game's afoot!<br />
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<li><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Art-Detection-Mysteries-Sherlock/dp/0802125921">The Whole Art of Detection</a></i></li>
<li><a href="http://mysteriousbookshop.com/">The Mysterious Bookshop</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lyndsayfaye.com/">Lyndsay Faye</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rosenbach.org/">The Rosenbach Library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rosenbach.org/visit/exhibitions/clever-criminals-and-daring-detectives/">"Clever Criminals and Daring Detectives"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://rosenbach.org/blog/philly-poe-guy-edward-g-pettit-joins-the-rosenbach/">Ed Pettit</a></li>
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Episode 119: A Brace of Interviews

"he braced himself to tell his story" [BERY] It's always a treat to have guests on our show when we air i...

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Baker Street Elementary — The Engineer's Dumb

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Have you ever wondered how engineers do what they do? We're not referring to the type of engineer in the overalls and striped cap behind the controls of a locomotive, although that's a very literal definition of an engineer.<br />
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No, we're talking more along the lines of civil,mechanical, and structural engineering — the kind who make mathematical calculations concerning volume, mass, torque, load bearing, and more. Victor Hatherley was a bit of a hybrid of the two: a hydraulic engineer. He needed to understand physics but his job also required some working knowledge of a type of engine controlled by the flow of water.<br />
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Just what do such professionals need to know, and how do they make their calculations? One such answer lies within the walls of Baker Street Elementary...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — The Engineer's Dumb

"the calculation is a simple one" [SILV] Have you ever wondered how engineers do what they do? We're not referring to ...

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Interview with David Marcum on Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street

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Sherlockian editor and author David Marcum is always involved in multiple Sherlock Holmes projects. He just released the highly successful two volume anthology <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Holmes-Away-Adventures-Great-Hiatus-ebook/dp/B01MRU43BB" target="_blank"><i>Holmes Away From Home: Tales of the Great Hiatus</i></a>, and the sixth volume of his legendary <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sherlock-Holmes-Stories/dp/1787050874" target="_blank"><i>The MX book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories</i></a> will be released on May 22nd. Between these two anthologies, Mr. Marcum decided to go back to the early days of Sherlock Holmes and edit the anthology <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/sherlock-holmes-before-baker-street" target="_blank"><i>Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street</i></a> which is currently being funded via a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/sherlock-holmes-before-baker-street">Kickstarter campaign</a>.<br />
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We asked David about the days of Sherlock Holmes before he met his Boswell.<br />
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<b>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: Holmes and Baker Street seem inseparable. Why set a story collection outside of 221B Baker Street?</b></h4>
<b>David Marcum:</b> The simple answer is that there is so much more to the story of Sherlock Holmes than what occurs during the Baker Street years, or what is presented in the pitifully few 60 stories of the original Canon.<br />
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I play The Game with deadly seriousness. The Game postulates that Holmes and Watson were real historical figures. Being real, they had childhoods and old ages in addition to those other more famous times of their lives that spring so easily to mind. Having read and collected and chronologized literally thousands of traditional Holmes adventures over the last 40+ years, I’ve seen all parts of Holmes's and Watson’s lives chronicled – youth and old age. For instance, there are stories that are set in the 1840s, where Holmes’s parents meet and marry. Many tales show incidents in their boyhoods and on into young adulthood. These only help to add to the rounded picture of our heroes. There was a lot of living and learning that went on for both Holmes and Watson before they first met in that lab at Barts on January 1st, 1881, when they were 26 (almost 27) and 28-½  years old, respectively.<br />
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There can never be enough new Holmes stories, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to fill in the cracks in certain areas, such as reading about what happened before Baker Street.<br />
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<b>DM: </b>Many of the stories in <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/sherlock-holmes-before-baker-street" target="_blank"><i>Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street</i></a> are set in Montague Street, and we see Holmes acting with confidence, but sometimes with a lot still left to learn. Personally, I’m fascinated with this time in Holmes’s life, when he was in the process of becoming the individual that’s admired the world over. On all three of my Holmes Pilgrimages to London (and other parts of England), I’ve visited Holmes’s lodgings at No. 24 Montague Street, and on the second and third Pilgrimages, I was even fortunate enough to stay there, as it’s now part of a small hotel.<br />
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Holmes explains in “The Musgrave Ritual” that, before he moved to the more famous Baker Street, he settled in Montague Street, next to the British Museum, where he set about learning his craft. This was the time when Holmes had come up to London to create a new profession, that of a Consulting Detective. Before that, he had been a university student, likely preparing for a conventional career. (Famed Holmes biographer William S. Baring-Gould indicated that Holmes’s father wanted him to be an engineer.) Although he’d had numerous adventures growing up and while at school, as chronicled in various narratives, Holmes hadn’t really considered becoming a detective professionally until the events of “The Gloria Scott”.<br />
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Following his decision, he dived in wholeheartedly and began to educate himself in those aspects that he thought would be useful. However, he was still quite unknown and somewhat inexperienced in those days, and not the knowledgeable and world-famous Holmes that would later state, “There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can’t unravel the thousand-and-first.” This was the period of time when Holmes was accumulating those thousand details at his finger ends.<br />
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<b>DM: </b>This collection begins in 1862, when Holmes is eight years old, in a story by Jayantika Ganguly called “The Adventure of the Bloody Roses.” We see, even then, that Holmes has some amazing observational skills, and we also get a look at fifteen-year-old Mycroft, giving indications of the man that he would become. Also, this story shows a wonderful connection between the two brothers.<br />
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The stories proceed chronologically throughout the book, with Holmes at university and then when he’s moved to Montague Street. The adventures continue through the 1870’s, including a trip to America when Holmes was an actor with the Sasanoff acting company, a part of Holmes’s early life originally revealed in Baring-Gould’s biography of Holmes, and later explored over the years by other “editors” of Watson’s notes. Finally, the book ends with a pair of stories set in 1880, leading to Holmes’s fortuitous meeting with Dr. Watson at Barts, and his subsequent move to Baker Street.<br />
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In this volume, there are a few stories that don’t involve Watson at all, either narrated by someone who encountered Holmes and chronicled the events in his own words, or some told in third person. However, Watson appears in most of these narratives, as he is told about this or that past case by Holmes. Thankfully Watson preserved all of these pre-Baker Street adventures in his tin despatch-box.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> This collection won’t show Holmes doing anything that is unexpected. There are no stories where he is secretly a wizard or a time-traveler or a criminal or Professor Moriarty’s son. He’s still Sherlock Holmes – possibly a little less skilled about what he’s doing, and certainly not as respected yet by Scotland Yard. But it’s easy to see that he’s on the path to become the Sherlock Holmes that is loved and admired around the world.<br />
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<b>DM:</b> I’ve found the calm in the eye of the storm that lets me balance a lot of things right now, and hopefully that will last for a while. In addition to spending time with my family and work as a civil engineer, I’m involved in various Holmesian projects that continue to fulfill my interest in supporting the true Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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I’m continuing to edit the MX anthologies, and the upcoming volume, <i><b>The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Part VI: 2017 Annual</b></i>, will be published on May 22nd, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday. The next three volumes after that are already planned out, and amazingly I’m receiving a sizable number of stories for all of them. (The next, <i>Part VII: Eliminate the Impossible</i>, will be out in Fall 2017, <i>Part VIII: 2018 Annual</i> in Spring 2018, and <i>Part IX: Some Untold Cases</i> in Fall 2018.) The author royalties continue to go to support the Stepping Stones School at Undershaw, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former homes, and to this point we’ve raised around $20,000.<br />
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In addition to those books, I’m involved in editing another Holmes collection of a different sort, and I’ve also written a still-secret and very exciting Holmes-related project – both of which I can’t discuss further at this point, except to say that I’m very happy to be involved with each of them. Finally, I’m working on a new Holmes novel and various short stories for different anthologies, with an eye towards collecting all of these loose tales from the past few years into a new short story collection.<br />
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As always, thank you very much for the opportunity to be interviewed, and special thanks to all the authors who have contributed to this and other projects, helping make it all possible. Sherlockians – and especially these Sherlockians! – are absolutely the best people!<br />
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For more on David Marcum, visit his <a href="http://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/David-Marcum/e/B00K1IKA92" target="_blank">Amazon page</a>. You can back <i><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/sherlock-holmes-before-baker-street" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street</a></i> on Kickstarter until April 24th.<br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "times new roman";">Derrick Belanger is the author of the #1 bestselling book in its category <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="1519511957" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-asin="1519511957" data-amzn-link-id="9e2003200f68f2fe44eb4bcdd1a73f6d" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Peculiar Provenance" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Adventure-Peculiar-Provenance/dp/1519511957/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=9e2003200f68f2fe44eb4bcdd1a73f6d&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_3292728" rel="nofollow" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Peculiar Provenance</a><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial;"><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_3292728" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=9e2003200f68f2fe44eb4bcdd1a73f6d&_cb=1451973203084" style="border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 0px;" width="0" /></span>, which was in the top 200 bestselling books on Amazon. He also is the author of the MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes books, the latest of which is <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B017862MVS" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-asin="B017862MVS" data-amzn-link-id="5293cce6e7483fecbc2d08a80a6fd7fa" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Curse of the Deadly Dinosaur" href="http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Dinosaur-MacDougall-Sherlock-Holmes-ebook/dp/B017862MVS/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=5293cce6e7483fecbc2d08a80a6fd7fa&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_7842789" rel="nofollow" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Curse of the Deadly Dinosaur</a><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial;"><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_7842789" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=5293cce6e7483fecbc2d08a80a6fd7fa&_cb=1451973247482" style="border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 0px;" width="0" /></span>, and he edited the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle horror anthology <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B00P4E8AVI" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-asin="B00P4E8AVI" data-amzn-link-id="a71c0c4edf6b4a9c56848bf35d8b468a" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural" href="http://www.amazon.com/Study-Terror-Revolutionary-Stories-Supernatural-ebook/dp/B00P4E8AVI/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=a71c0c4edf6b4a9c56848bf35d8b468a&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_5010397" rel="nofollow" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural</a><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial;"><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_5010397" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=a71c0c4edf6b4a9c56848bf35d8b468a&_cb=1451973259426" style="border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 0px;" width="0" /></span>. Mr. Belanger has recently started the publishing company <a href="http://www.belangerbooks.com/" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Belanger Books</a> which released the Sherlock Holmes anthology <a data-amzn-asin="1533202273" href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Watson-Sherlock-Anthology-Stories/dp/1533202273/" style="color: #006f85; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Beyond Watson</a>. He resides in Colorado and continues compiling unpublished works by Dr. John H. Watson.</i><br />
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Interview with David Marcum on Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street

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Episode 118: The Future of Sherlockian Scholarship

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1:35 YEAH!<br />
5:14 A new feature: Unnecessary Pastiche Censorship<br />
9:41 Sponsor: Wessex Press<br />
11:21 The Future<br />
12:36 It all began with Ronald Knox...<br />
21:09 Conan Doyle - why didn't his Jesuit education prepare him for the religious/literary criticism?<br />
24:07 Being paid by Sherlockians<br />
26:39 Christopher Morley's "Was Sherlock Holmes An American?"<br />
33:56 From the Golden Age to the Silver Age<br />
40:49 The Basic Holmesian Library - the Shaw 100<br />
45:27 The future of Sherlockian scholarship is_____<br />
47:04 Sponsor: the Baker Street Journal<br />
48:48 Gas-Lamp<br />
55:52 Follow up and translation</div>
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<li>Ronald Knox: <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/knox.html">Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes</a></li>
<li><i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/grandgamev2.html">The Grand Game</a></i></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/holmes/Shaw100.pdf">The Shaw 100</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose56">Episode 56: Sherlock Peoria</a> (interview with Brad Keefauver)</li>
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Episode 118: The Future of Sherlockian Scholarship

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Baker Street Elementary — The Con-fidence Game

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Sherlockians descended on Atlanta this weekend to celebrate <a href="http://221bcon.com/" target="_blank">221B Con</a>. Well, that is they descended as much as their delayed and befuddled airlines would allow them to do so.<br />
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Hundreds of Sherlock Holmes fans of all types, ages, and predilections gathered to celebrate everything that they love about Sherlock Holmes. From panel discussions to performances, there was a bit of everything, so that from the newest convert to the most curmudgeonly dyed-in-the-wool aficionado could find something to occupy themselves.<br />
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Even the <i>Baker Street Journal </i>— that "one fixed point in a changing age" — got into the act, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23221BCon%20from%3ABakerStJournal&src=typd" target="_blank">tweeting quotes of relevance</a> with the #221bcon hashtag throughout the weekend. Did it help drive interest in subscriptions? <a href="https://twitter.com/IHearofSherlock/status/850820395485810689" target="_blank">The jury is out</a>, but we hope some of the newer attendees took notice.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — The Con-fidence Game

"the free, less conventional attitude" [ABBE] Sherlockians descended on Atlanta this weekend to celebrate 221B Con . Well,...

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The Adventure of the Incognita Countess — A Review

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“the vampire was not necessarily a dead man” [SUSS]</h4>
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On the periphery of Sherlockiana, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X3T8DWB" target="_blank">The Adventure of the Incognita Countess</a></i> by Cynthia Ward comes from the world of literary mash-up. If you are not the sort of person who enjoys hypothetical scenarios like “what if Mina Harker’s daughter met Tarzan, and Carmilla of vampiric fame, on the RMS <i>Titanic</i>,” then this delightful short novel will not be your cup of tea. If such a scenario, peppered with figures historical as well as literary, piques your interest, then you won't be disappointed. <br /><br />The Sherlockian connection is slight, but important. The main character is Lucy Harker, daughter of Mina and the product of Dracula’s attentions before he was staked. Mina and Jonathan Harker are now divorced. Mycroft Holmes, of all people, becomes Lucy’s stepfather. Ms. Ward briefly acknowledges the apparent absurdity of this with a recalled comment by Lucy’s unnamed but instantly recognizable step uncle. He disparages Mycroft's falling in love, to a divorced victim of a vampire no less, but later appears to harbor some affection of his own for his new niece. The Holmes men are, after all, still human. And, if you are the less than charitable type, you can always assume Mycroft married Mina Harker just to mold her half-vampire daughter into an ideal secret agent.<br /><br />The story starts in London, 1912. The events described in H.G. Wells’s <i>War of the Worlds</i> are historical fact, and Britain has benefitted greatly from its appropriation of Martian technology. An officer carrying plans for the fabled <i>Nautilus</i> is on his way back to America aboard the new steamer <i>Titanic</i>, and the British government wants to make sure the plans arrive safely. Lucy Harker is chosen for the job, as she is a capable spy and her half-vampiric heritage gives her advantages over mere mortals. Naturally, things go somewhat awry.<div>
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<br /><br />Also on board are a thinly veiled version of Lord Greystoke, a.k.a Tarzan, who is more than happy to voice his opinions on the hypocrisies of “civilized” society, and the Countess Karnstein, who is clearly based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire, Carmilla. There are also a pair of German soldiers, whose conversations foreshadow the ‘pure race’ sentiments of the future Nazi party. The mystery itself is basic, and the conclusion dramatic. Much of the story centers around Lucy’s inner reflections on herself, her country and society, to a point where the mission is almost just background scenery. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it's different from what I expected. When the climax of the case happened, it was almost a surprise reminder that there was a mission involved in the first place. Predictably, history runs its course. As <i>War of the Worlds</i> taught us, Earth doesn’t like aliens. They aren’t a match for our microbes, and their technology won’t stop an iceberg. <br /><br />Ultimately, this is a love story between a female secret agent and a suicidal vampire, and a character study in feminism and being a woman in a patriarchal society. Though she constantly chafes under the condescension she must endure from men she could literally tear apart, Lucy is so convinced of the men who control her life being right that she never questions the evidence before her eyes until an ‘unrefined’ woman (none other than the unsinkable Molly Brown) who isn’t afraid of bucking societal conventions and speaking her mind tells her what’s what. There's a wonderful moment where Lucy remembers her step uncle’s lesson never to theorize before the facts, which ultimately leads to the realization that most of her life has been based on non-factual theories that women are the weaker sex, and that vampires are by necessity evil.<br /><br /><div>
The book’s ending is wide open for a sequel, with plenty of potential for more figures of legend to meet. Ms. Ward has done a wonderful job setting up her world, and the future challenges her characters will have to face. Of course, if a concerned step uncle were to make more of an appearance, that'd be excellent, but just knowing he's there along with the whole literary universe in the background is good fun too.<br /><br /><i>The Adventure of the Incognita Countess</i> is available<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X3T8DWB" target="_blank"> on Kindle and in print</a>.</div>
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The Adventure of the Incognita Countess — A Review

“the vampire was not necessarily a dead man” [SUSS] On the periphery of Sherlockiana, The Adventure of the Incognita Countess by Cynt...

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by Katie Magnusson

Celebrate World Rat Day with Sherlock Holmes

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As you probably know, April 4 is <a href="http://www.worldratday.com/" target="_blank">World Rat Day</a>.<br />
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Oh, you weren't aware? Well, we can't fault you. You're probably still hung over from celebrating <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/ferret-day/" target="_blank">Ferret Day</a> on April 2. Now, please put <a href="https://youtu.be/lxKYxHkMPqE?t=19m4s" target="_blank">Teddy</a> down and give us your full attention.<br />
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The most famous of rodents from the Sherlock Holmes story never actually appeared as an adventure. As one of the most mysterious and tantalizing of the untold tales, the mere mention of the giant rat of Sumatra leaves readers on the edge of their seats, wondering exactly what the case might have concerned.<br />
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You'll recall from "<a href="http://ignisart.com/camdenhouse/canon/suss.htm" target="_blank">The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire</a>":<br />
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As such, it has become one of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Rat_of_Sumatra#In_Sherlockiana" target="_blank">the most popular topics of pastiche and parody</a>.<br />
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And while the very topic might seem to be a flight of fancy — a literary device or invention out of thin air — giant rats actually do exist.<br />
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Dr. Karl Shuker informs us that giant rats are a <a href="http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-giant-rat-of-sumatra-zoological.html" target="_blank">zoological fact, not fiction</a>. They were first identified in the 1880s by a mammalogist at London's Natural History Museum. But it wasn't until 1983 that researchers determined that the species actually belongs to the genus <i>Sundamys</i>, not the previously assumed <i>Rattus </i>genus.<br />
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And in these remote areas of Indonesia (which isn't all that distant from Sumatra), there are still giant rats roaming today. We even <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/12/giant-rat-of-sumatra-suss_17.html#.WOOtCPkrLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reported on one found in the "lost world"</a> of these islands.<br />
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Perhaps one way to celebrate World Rat Day is by listening to The Firesign Theatre's album <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IXHcSBhfkx8" target="_blank">The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra</a>. If you're a fan of puns, this is a treasure trove. If you're not, the first five minutes should suffice.<br />
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However you celebrate, try to stay away from eating too much cheese.<br />
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<i>Image credit: <a href="http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-giant-rat-of-sumatra-zoological.html">Karl Shuker</a></i><br />
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