Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (June 23 - June 30, 2013)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDM4SnbeyN8k5yVDNzm89e5J6aPEferjLwxml8spQtx0JnFcPqIVnes5_Jlq5eVi5CimQfXovlzuUSzfioADqPNgx1B2Ldh4Y0VPIP4lo6N1qxglro_1CyfupATjvRFejVYR3iSO152yyd/s430/1895.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDM4SnbeyN8k5yVDNzm89e5J6aPEferjLwxml8spQtx0JnFcPqIVnes5_Jlq5eVi5CimQfXovlzuUSzfioADqPNgx1B2Ldh4Y0VPIP4lo6N1qxglro_1CyfupATjvRFejVYR3iSO152yyd/s200/1895.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i>"I hammered away until Friday." </i><br />               - 'The Stock-broker's Clerk'<br /><br />Today we start a new tradition on the site. As we prepare to combine our work here with that of <a href="http://ihearofsherlock.com/" target="_blank"><b>our audio work</b></a>, we thought it was time to expand our editorial offerings. We still have a fine lineup of authors who occasionally pitch in with excellent contributions from the corners of the Sherlockian world that grab their attention.<br /><br />Now we add Matt Laffey to that list. If you don't know Matt, he is a dedicated Sherlockian from Brooklyn with an eye toward the online world and an affability that makes him excellent company at gatherings in the offline one. In short: a classic Sherlockian. His web site <b><a href="http://always1895.net/">Always1895.net</a></b> is a treasure trove of material, with a weekly feature that he calls "Friday Sherlock Links Compendium."<br /><br />To us, that means that he's somewhat of a modern-day weekly <b><a href="http://redcircledc.org/index.php?id=39" target="_blank">Peter Blau</a></b>. And we're proud to welcome Matt and his weekly contributions here on our site, as we thought this comprehensive round-up would make an excellent addition here. In the future, Matt will be posting his work directly under his own byline. We welcome your comments and feedback, and if you have any material to include in the weekly roundup, please send to <a href="mailto:always1895@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">always1895@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br /><h3><a href="http://always1895.net/post/54085854958/friday-sherlock-links-compendium-june-23-june-30" target="_blank"><a name='more'></a>Always1895.net Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (June 23 - June 30, 2013)</a></h3><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://thenorwoodbuilder.tumblr.com/post/53996344805/thenorwoodbuilder-so-after-having-tried-my" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Chronology of Sherlock and The Canon"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Norwood Builder</span></a> has fearlessly plunged headfirst into that - to paraphrase Watson - great cesspool into which all the obsessives and pedants of Canonical Studies are irresistibly drained; that is he’s attempted to construct a chronology of ACD’s Canon, from scratch: “this is, naturally, only my <em>personal</em> timeline: I intentionally avoided going back to my <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/892295.The_Annotated_Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Baring-Gould's Annotated Sherlock Holmes (1967)">Baring-Gould</a></span> or other chronologies, compiled by other people, so as not to be influenced." Let us pause for a moment and remember those intrepid Sherlockianmadmen, scattered throughout the 20th century, who have attempted to piece together a coherent ‘linear’ timeline of events in the Canon: <span style="font-weight: 700;">H.W. Bell</span> in <em>Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson The Chronology of Their Adventures</em>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jay Finley Christ</span> in <em>An Irregular Chronology Of Sherlock Holmes Of Baker Street</em>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Gavin Brend</span> in <em>My Dear Holmes: A Study in Sherlock</em>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler</span> in <em>Baker Street Chronology: Commentaries on the Sacred Writings of Dr. John H. Watson</em>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">William Baring-Gould</span> in <em>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</em> and my personal favorite <span style="font-weight: 700;">D. Martin Dakin</span> in <em>A Sherlock Holmes Commentary</em>.Sherlockian scholar <span style="font-weight: 700;">John McGowan</span> put together an extremely useful online "<span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.221b-baker-street.com/IndexOfChronologies.php?ThisIndex=BG2" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Index of Internal Chronologies">Index of Internal Chronologies</a></span>" which compares/lists each chronologists’ datings of the sixty stories from the Canon. I look forward to studying this intensely detailed chronology at length this weekend.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thenorwoodbuilder.tumblr.com/post/53996344805/thenorwoodbuilder-so-after-having-tried-my" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for full Canon timeline"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/e5792de1ffef63d6affce1c94f05d108/tumblr_inline_mp2zo0BgqT1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span><small style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;">[A small sampling of The Norwood Builder’s comprehensive and impressive chronology - where it’s always 1895! <a href="http://thenorwoodbuilder.tumblr.com/post/53996344805/thenorwoodbuilder-so-after-having-tried-my" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Canon Timeline">Click</a> for the entire document.]</small></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><small><br /></small></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23047390" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and London will be the subject of a new exhibition to open in 2014."><span style="font-weight: 700;">BBC News</span></a> (and <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/watching-the-detective-how-the-victorians-shaped-sherlock-8672683.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Watching the detective... how the Victorians shaped Sherlock"><em>The Evening Standard</em></a>) announced an upcoming exhibit ‘Sherlock Holmes’ set to open in 2014 at <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Corporate/Press-media/Press-releases/Sherlock+Holmes+exhibition+announcement.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Announcement of Holmes exhibit">The Museum of London</a> exploring the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and London. The exhibit “will “look beyond the familiar deerstalker, pipe and cape" in search of the “real, complex and multi-faceted" Sherlock Holmes. It claims the show will “mirror the way he used his own remarkable observational powers and analytical mind to reveal the truth". The Great Detective is clearly ‘so hot right now’ with curators considering the epic sounding <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SherlockHolmesExhibition" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes">International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes</a> opens this Fall at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OMSI.Museum" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="OMSI on Facebook">Oregon Museum of Science and Industry</a> as well. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/a-hansom-cab-stand-50594" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger version of Hansom Cab Stand"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/bdb8339b1f572b481411ef87b2a2be3a/tumblr_inline_mp1enl77wZ1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">A Hansom Cab Stand</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;"> by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">P. Stahl</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">. Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 25 cm Collection: </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/galleries/collections/museum-of-london-882" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Museum of London online paintings">Museum of London</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/britain-s-secret-homes/series-1/episode-1-britain-s-secret-homes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Britain's Secret Homes">Britain’s Secret Homes</a></span> on ITV is a new British show “which reveals the stories of the people and houses that have changed the history of Britain and the world." In the very first episode <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonyhurst_College" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Stonyhurst College">Stonyhurst College</a>, the Jesuit school which <span style="font-weight: 700;">Arthur Conan Doyle</span> attended, was featured. I haven’t had a chance to view it yet but <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.com/2013/06/britains-secret-homes.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Duncan critical of Stonyhurst segment">Alistair Duncan</a></span> posted a piece that was highly critical of the episode saying that “it was not exactly right to imply that the [Stonyhurstlibrary] and ACD’s memories of it led to the creation of <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em>." And even though Mr Duncan takes issue - rightly I think - with host <span style="font-weight: 700;">Anthony Horowitz</span>’s claim that “the practice of allowing dogs in the grounds fed the idea of the hound itself.," the picture (cf. below) of Elsa the Irish Bloodhound on <a href="http://www.stonyhurst.ac.uk/news/?pid=3&nid=2&storyid=558" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Pictures from Stonyhurst episode">Stonyhurst’s website</a> is almost enough to change my mind.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.stonyhurst.ac.uk/news/?pid=3&nid=2&storyid=558" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Stonyhurst's own take on show"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/5f8889a441d441f092ab590712bee768/tumblr_inline_mogwy6ssCB1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Clearly, this was the inspiration for the “enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog." (</span><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles/Chapter_14" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="HOUN Chapter 14">HOUN</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">)]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.licensing.biz/news/11574/VEGAS-2013-First-Sherlock-Holmes-Elementary-deal" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Titan to release 'Elementary' novels"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Licensing.biz</span></a> announced that <a href="http://titanbooks.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Titan Publishing website">Titan Publishing Group</a> will release a series of original novels based on CBS’s <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/elementary/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="CBS's Elementary"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Elementary</em></a></span>: the “series of original novels, created in conjunction with the show’s production team, will allow fans to “immerse themselves in Sherlock Holmes’ eccentric life in contemporary New York City"." To date, <a href="http://titanbooks.com/search/?search=Sherlock%20Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Titan's Sherlock Holmes-related books">Titan has released over 25 Holmes-related</a> fiction and non-fiction books including <a href="https://twitter.com/DStuartDavies" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Follow David Stuart Davies on Twitter"><span style="font-weight: 700;">David Stuart Davies</span></a>‘ <a href="http://titanbooks.com/starring-sherlock-holmes-revised-edition-3366/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Starring Sherlock Homes by DSD"><em>Starring Sherlock Holmes</em></a> (Revised Hardcover Edition) and <a href="http://titanbooks.com/the-further-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-the-veiled-detective-4521/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Veiled Detective by DSD"><em>The Veiled Detective</em></a>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">DanielStashower</span>’s <em><a href="http://titanbooks.com/the-further-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-the-ectoplasmic-man-4523/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Ectoplasmic Man">The Ectoplasmic Man</a></em> and<em> <a href="http://titanbooks.com/the-further-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-the-scroll-of-the-dead-4524/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Scroll of the Dead">The Scroll of the Dead</a></em> and possibly the best Titan Holmes-related book available, <a href="http://moriarty%20-%20the%20hound%20of%20the%20durbervilles/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Moriarty by Kim Newman"><em>Moriarty - The Hound of the D’Urbervilles</em></a> by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Kim Newman</span>, who gave the <a href="http://philosophymom.livejournal.com/11617.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of Kim Newman's BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture"><span style="font-weight: 700;">BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture</span></a> at <a href="http://www.bsiweekend.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BSI Weekend 2013">BSI Weekend 2013</a>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/3cf27d6b2d515685584c106ce9b04eec/tumblr_inline_mort86AbCe1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[I couldn’t find any cover art for the Titan </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">Elementary</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;"> novels, so here’s the cover for Kim Newman’s awesome ‘biography’ of Professor Moriarty from the sinister - and dare I say at times hilarious - perspective of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Col. Sebastian ‘Basher’ Moran</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/columnists/kevin-gordon-world-s-greatest-detective-retired-to-sussex-1-5213345" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Worlds greatest detective retired to Sussex"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sussex Express</span></a> published a piece by a former police constable who “later became the HOLMES liaison officer for the <a href="http://www.btp.police.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="British Transport Police">British Transport Police</a>, although in this sense it is an acronym for the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System. I was such a fan of the sleuth that, on the night before my wedding, I arranged to stay in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undershaw" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Undershaw">Undershaw</a> Hotel atHindhead, Surrey, where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived between 1897 and 1907." The role of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sussex">Sussex</a> (this appearing in the <em>Sussex Express</em> after all) in the Great Detective’s adventures, primarily as the location of Holmes’ retirement in 1907, is explored via reference to the<a href="http://www.diogenes-club.com/bowpreface.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Preface to His Last Bow">Preface from <em>His Last Bow</em></a>, "<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/lion.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="LION">The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane</a>”, "<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/seco.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Second Stain">The Second Stain</a>" ("he has definitely retired from London and betaken himself to study and bee-farming on the Sussex Downs") and "<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/cree.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="CREE">The Creeping Man</a>" ("Now we have at last obtained permission to ventilate the facts which formed one of the very last cases handled by Holmes before his retirement from practice") reaching the conclusion that: “Sherlock Holmes retired to a building located between Eastbourne and Seaford (there are no cliffs east of Eastbourne). The location has to be inland as you can’t keep bees on a cliff edge, so five miles would make the location East Dean or maybe Friston."</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/lion.htm" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for LION text and illustrations"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/aeb4b56d3ebf1a9f554efb66cb196f27/tumblr_inline_mp1do9FWoh1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">["The place was deserted and there was no sign of life save for two sea-birds circling and screaming overhead….For a long time I stood in deep meditation while the shadows grew darker around me. My mind was filled with racing thoughts. You have known what it was to be in a nightmare in which you feel that there is some all-important thing for which you search and which you know is there, though it remains forever just beyond your reach. That was how I felt that evening as I stood alone by that place of death. Then at last I turned and walked slowly homeward." (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Lion%27s_Mane" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="LION">LION</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">)]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://middletownpress.com/articles/2013/06/26/entertainment/doc51cb2a8d85704000841406.txt" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Gillette Castle to offer free outdoor performances again this summer"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Middletown Press</span></a> announced that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette#Gillette_Castle" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Info on Gillette Castle">Gillette Castle</a> will offer free outdoor performances this summer - in particular “on July 6 and running until Aug. 11, "<span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band</span>" takes the outdoor stage." For more information on this free adaptation of Gillette’s dramatized version of “The Speckled Band", see <a href="http://www.ehsco.org/performances/sherlock_holmes_radio2013/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="East Haddam Stage Company present The Speckled Band">East Haddam Stage Company</a>. For those unfamiliar, <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Castle_State_Park" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Gillette Castle and State Park">Gillette Castle</a></span>, situated on the banks of the Connecticut River, was commissioned and designed by early 20th century actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette#Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="William Gillette"><span style="font-weight: 700;">William Gillette</span></a> who of course played the role of the master sleuth in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(play)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes the play"><em>Sherlock Holmes</em></a> (penned by Gillette himself) onstage starting in 1899 more than 1,300 times over a thirty year period. I’ve always felt that the power and influence of seeing Gillette don the role of Holmes was best articulated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_Tarkington" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Booth Tarkington">Booth Tarkington</a> (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) who told Gillette, “I would rather see you play Sherlock Holmes than be a child again on Christmas morning." The legendary actor and Holmes aficionado resided at Gillette Castle until his death in 1937.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?A=2716&Q=325204" style="clear: right; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for Gillette Castle visitor information"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/5c0e84010d0893dc2da58e68a4941d32/tumblr_inline_mp1hpcGMjq1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">["In 1943, the Connecticut state government bought the property, renaming it Gillette’s Castle and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Castle_State_Park" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Gillette Castle Park">Gillette Castle State Park</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">. Located in 67 River Road, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Haddam,_Connecticut" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="East Haddam">East Haddam, Connecticut</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">, it was reopened in 2002. After a four years of restoration, costing $11 million, it now includes a museum, park, and many theatrical celebrations. It receives 100,000 annual visitors."]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.com/2013/06/le-figaro-interview-about-bbc-sherlock.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Le Figaro interview"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Doyleockian</span></a>’s Alistair Duncan alerted us to an upcoming interview conducted by French newspaper<em> Le Figaro</em> on Mr Duncan’s views regarding BBC <em>Sherlock</em> and Sherlockianmatters in general. Though the interview will be published in French, Duncan assures us that he’ll publish his pre-translated answers in a few days time. Equally exciting for Mr Duncan is his pending debut in the Summer 2013 edition of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Subscribe to the BSJ today!"><em>Baker Street Journal</em></a> with an article titled “The Changing Face of the Sherlockian" comparing and contrasting long time Sherlockians with their neophyte counterparts. And speaking of the<em> BSJ</em> Summer 2013 edition, <a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/343091527603585024" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BSJ Summer 2013 cover">@BakerStJournal</a> posted a photo of the cover art and it appears to be an illustration of Sherlock Holmes qua Altamont, as described in "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Last_Bow" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="LAST">His Last Bow</a>" - and what a remarkable cover it is….</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/343091527603585024" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger image"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/42943bcc412165195285e3f18dd34ea4/tumblr_inline_mp3c3avSen1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">["[Altamont] was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features and a small goatee beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam." (</span><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/His_Last_Bow.-_The_War_Service_of_Sherlock_Holmes" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="LAST text">LAST</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">)]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorlyndsayfaye/posts/591543974211644" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Faye Fall Book Tour 2013!">Lyndsay Faye</a></span> - author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11890816-the-gods-of-gotham" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Gods of Gotham on Goodreads"><em>The Gods of Gotham</em></a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4543979-dust-and-shadow" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Dust and Shadow on Goodreads"><em>Dust and Shadow</em></a> - announced dates/locations for her upcoming U.S. book tour: 9/18: <a href="http://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mysterious Bookshop">The Mysterious Bookshop</a>, NYC. 9/19-9/22: <a href="http://bcon2013.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Boucheron 2013 in Albany, NY">Bouchercon</a>, Albany, NY. 9/23: <a href="http://www.onceuponacrimebooks.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Once Upon a Crime">Once Upon a Crime</a>, Minneapolis, MN. 9/24:<a href="http://www.murderbooks.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Murder By the Book">Murder by the Book</a>, Houston, TX. 9/25: <a href="http://poisonedpen.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Poisoned Pen">Poisoned Pen</a>, Scottsdale, AZ. 9/26: <a href="http://www.mystgalaxy.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mysterious Galaxy">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, San Diego, CA. and 9/27: <a href="http://www.powells.com/locations/powells-books-at-cedar-hills-crossing/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Powell's of Portland">Powell’s Books</a> at Cedar Hills, Portland, OR. If you reside in/near any of the cities so mentioned, I strongly encourage you to check out one of my favorite Sherlockian authors Ms Lyndsay Faye as she drops the sequel to <em>The Gods of Gotham</em>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Secret-Lyndsay-Faye/dp/0399158383" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Seven For a Secret"><em>Seven For a Secret</em></a>, on an unsuspecting world. I was fortunate enough to receive an advanced copy and I can confidently say that if you enjoyed the hair-raising, urban decaying, how-the-hell-did-people-even-survive-back-then, exploits of 1850s NYC ‘copper star’ Timothy Wilde and friends (and enemies), you’ll feel like you were thrown right back into the filth, pestilence and chaos of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Five Points">Five Points</a> and Lower Manhattan from the moment you crack open <em>Seven For a Secret</em>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Secret-Lyndsay-Faye/dp/0399158383" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Order Seven For a Secret on Amazon"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/95b79977b8cb5021e2a47fec099b16ec/tumblr_inline_mp1j0pe1Lx1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Break out your copy of George W Matsell’s </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1449541.Vocabulum" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="The Rogue's Lexicon"><em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Vocabulum: Or, The Rogue’s</span></em><span style="font-weight: 700;"> Lexicon</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;"> (1859), send the kinchinoff to bed and pour yourself a glass of something 180 proof because </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">Seven For a Secret</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;"> is another intense trip to mid-nineteenth century NYC.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://94.172.81.207:8080/tsosh/" style="clear: right; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Secret of SH website"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/88775b354c50714a87226a91bf82aac2/tumblr_inline_mp3atiK1XD1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">Click to download a PDF of the original theater program.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://94.172.81.207:8080/tsosh/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Secret of SH scans and audio"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Secret of Sherlock Holmes</span></a>, the play written by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Paul</span> featuring <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Brett</span>and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Edward Hardwicke </span>(during a Granada filming break c. 1989), is one of the bestSherlockian pastiches in existence. You may recall that two years ago I posted about the discovery/release of a <a href="http://always1895.net/post/5789362036/full-recording-of-secret-of-sherlock-holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Full Recording of The Secret of Sherlock Holmes">full audio recording of a Secret of Sherlock Holmes performance</a>which was available as a free download. Now as an added bonus, David Somen (a fellow member of the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114565123495685504221" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Google Plus Sherlock Holmes">Google+ Sherlock Holmes community</a>) scanned <a href="http://bit.ly/tsosh-pdf" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Secret of Sherlock Holmes theater program PDF">the original theater program</a> and put together a small website containing the scans plus the audio as well as his reminiscences of attending the play in 1989 at the Alexandra theater in Birmingham, UK. If you haven’t listened to this play yet, you’re in for a giant Sherlockian treat! On a related, though less cheerful note, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Patrick Garland</span> - director of <em>The Secret of Sherlock Holmes</em> -<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/apr/22/patrick-garland" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Patrick Garland obituary">passed away</a> this past April at the age of 78.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><small></small><br /><small></small></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2013/06/nothing-lasts-forever-even-shilling.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Keefauver on the 2013 mid-year letter to the BSI"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock Peoria</span></a> commented at length on a recently sent-out BSI 2013 Mid-Year Letter from the leader of the <span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Street Irregulars</span> (aka ‘Wiggins’) <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/12/episode-14-michael-whelan-wiggins-of.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Listen to an IHOSE interview with Mr Whelan here">Michael Whelan</a>.</span> In particular, MrKeefauver points out Mr Whelan’s remarks concerning the ‘devotee vs. fans’ dust-up that occurred this past January as well as “lapsed Irregulars" in general, and wonders if it’s indeed possible for someone to be kicked out of the BSI. Most of what’s discussed resides solely in the confines of internal BSI politics, leaving Keefauver to conclude that “most Sherlock Holmes fans these days don’t care a whit about everything I just wrote;" only time will tell. [Note: I made a slight edit to the above for clarification: “devotees" (plural) is now “devotee" (singular) and the scope of “lapsed Irregulars" extends beyond any single issue/controversy. It is up to you to draw your own inferences: "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather yourself…" (<a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BLUE text">BLUE</a>)]</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://sherlock-holmes.org.uk/india.php" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SHSL's 14 day trip to India"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Sherlock Holmes Society of London</span></a> just announced: “Following our outstandingly successful <a href="http://sherlock-holmes.org.uk/event_info.php?id=266" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Pilgrimage to Reichenbach">pilgrimages to Switzerland</a>, France and the Baltic Cruise, the Society is planning its most ambitious overseas trip so far - a 14 day trip to India." I highly recommend reading the trip itinerary and/or downloading the "<a href="http://pdfcast.org/pdf/holmes-in-india-2014-flyer" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Download India Trip info here"><span style="font-weight: 700;">To India With Sherlock Holmes</span>" trip 2014</a> PDF. Also, don’t forget to read the SHSL’s always informative newsletter "<a href="http://sherlock-holmes.org.uk/pdf/DM333.pdf" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for June 16, 2013 issue">The District Messenger</a>”, edited by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Roger Johnson</span>, for the latest Holmesian news coming from the SHSL.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra_Fort" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Agra Fort gate"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a93d401153852f3a540b8c449046907b/tumblr_inline_mp3dxmx4DS1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Entry gates of the Agra Fort, site of the events described in "</span><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Four/Chapter_12" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Chapter 12 of SIGN text">Chapter 12: The Strange Story of Jonathan Small</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">" in </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">The Sign of Four</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><small><br /></small></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/index.html" style="clear: left; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="JHWS webpage"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a190638eb763a4fc75d5680b4a6b9f56/tumblr_inline_mp3d2qrtQh1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[The one fixed point in a changing age.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/1/post/2013/06/welcome-to-matt-laffey-jhws-priory-scholars-of-ny-and-always-1895-to-charter-membership.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="JHWS inducts the 'Baron'"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The John H. Watson Society</span></a>, first mentioned two weeks ago on this blog, continues to expand and announce new ‘Watsonians’ into their rapidly swelling ranks. I’m proud to have been invited into this most promising of new ventures - as well as assigned the titular Bull Pup societal name of ‘Baron’! In the coming weeks I hope to post an in-depth interview with JHWS founders Prof. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Donald A. Yates</span> BSI, “The Greek Interpreter" and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Don Libey</span> along with fellow Watsonians regarding the purpose of the Society as well as their short and long term goals. For a taste of just what the JHWS stands for, consider this quote from their membership page: “The Society shall foster and encourage the introduction of youth to the writings of John H. Watson in The Sacred Canon with a goal of keeping the memory of 221B Baker Street and 1895 forever green through the recruitment of successive generations ofWatsonians and Sherlockians." What more could one ask from a society of one’s peers?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sherlockedcc-the-sherlock-fan-party-of-san-diego-comic-con--4" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SherlockeDCC">SherlockeDCC</a></span> - the Sherlockian conglomerate multinational corporation made of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetbabes.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Baker Street Babes">Baker Street Babes</a>, <a href="http://www.beinggeekchic.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Being Geek Chic">Being Geek Chic</a>, <a href="http://www.thenerdygirlie.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Nerdy Girlie">The Nerdy Girlie</a>, <a href="http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SherlockDC">SherlockDC</a>, and <a href="http://ohcararara.tumblr.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Cara McGee">Cara McGee</a> - raised a grand total of <span style="font-weight: 700;">$6,526</span> (!) for the upcoming Sherlock Fan Party happening during <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="San Diego Comic Con">San Diego Comic Con</a>. Congratulations to the Babes and friends - I have no doubt that theSherlockeDCC party will be an event the likes no Comic Con has ever seen. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://thegreatbaz.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/letter-from-aldous-huxley-to-rathbone/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Letter from Huxley to Rathbone"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Baz</span></a> posted a letter (originally discovered by <a href="http://theamericanreader.com/19-june-1950-aldous-huxley-to-basil-rathbone/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Huxley to Rathbone">The American Reader</a>) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Aldous Huxley"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Aldous Huxley</span></a> (author of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Brave New World book"><em>Brave New World</em></a>) to <span style="font-weight: 700;">Basil Rathbone</span> describing various textual changes Huxley made to his play <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/theater/gioconda/gioconda.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The 1950 adaptation of Huxley's The Gioconda Smile featuring Rathbone in the lead role"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Gioconda Smile</em></a></span> in which Basil Rathbone was starring as Henry Hutton. This 1950 adaptation opened on October 7th at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_Theatre_(Broadway)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Lyceum Theater">Lyceum Theater</a> in New York City, and would run for 41 performances before going on tour (click <a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/theater/gioconda/giocondasmile4.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Gioconda Smile playbill cover">here</a> for the playbill). Coincidentally, the role of Hutton, during an English theatrical run the year prior, was played by <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Brook#Hollywood" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Clive Brook's rolls as Sherlock Holmes">Clive Brook</a></span>, who of course donned the role of the Great Detective three times previously in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023460/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes (1932)"><em>Sherlock Holmes</em></a> (1932), a short titled “Murder Will Out" - alongside William Powell as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Vance" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Fictional detective Philo Vance">Philo Vance</a> -  in the revue <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021232/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Paramount on Parade (1930)"><em>Paramount on Parade</em></a> (1930) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020324/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)"><em>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</em></a> (1929). </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.basilrathbone.net/theater/gioconda/gioconda.htm" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger version and more info on Rathbone"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/b49e5da158ca526ff35c61053c76251a/tumblr_inline_mp32tjumdQ1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Rathbone in the role of Henry Hutton, whose performance </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">Time</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;"> magazine described unsympathetically as “hamming as the husband" (</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">Time</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">, October, 1950).]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://pelionius.tumblr.com/post/53937582268" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Burke and Brett in FINA"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Symposion</span></a> dug up this charming photo of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121651/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="David Burke on IMDB"><span style="font-weight: 700;">David Burke</span></a> and Jeremy Brett from Granada’s adaptation of "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506450/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada's FINA (1985)">The Final Problem</a>." As idyllic and calm as this picture seems, one has feels a definite sense of foreboding in the knowledge that Dr Watson is but moments away from losing his best friend to the unforgiving jaws of the Reichenbach, seemingly forever.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pelionius.tumblr.com/post/53937582268" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for much larger view"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/09ff06f15f0584712782a7025cb2160b/tumblr_inline_mp31h0VrZ21qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Granada’s FINA would be David Burke’s final appearance as Watson - and though his replacement by</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hardwicke" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Edward Hardwicke"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Edward Hardwicke</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;"> was by no means a downgrade, Burke’s particular understanding and interpretation of Watson would be missed.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://bakerstreets.tumblr.com/post/54069042710" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ronald Searle - "The living room at 221B Baker Street""><span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Streets</span></a> found a wonderful rendering of Holmes surveying the living room at 221B Baker Street by British cartoonist <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ronald Searle">Ronald Searle</a></span>. "The hard-copy Catalogue of the 1951 Festival of Britain Sherlock Holmes Exhibition contains a number of illustrations by RonaldSearle: <em><a href="http://www.westminsteronline.org/holmes1951/catalogue/catalogue_text.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Text of 'Catalogue of an Exhibition on Sherlock Holmes'">Sherlock Holmes Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at Abbey House, Baker Street, London May - September 1951</a></em> (click for text). You can read all about the intriguing set of events that led to the creation of the Holmes Exhibition at <a href="http://www.johnhwatsonmd.com/sherlock-holmes-and-the-festival-of-britain/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes and The Festival of Britain">JohnWatsonMD.com</a>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bakerstreets.tumblr.com/post/54069042710" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger view"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/fb094923657b7ee1ae835da1a3adea3d/tumblr_inline_mp35tuQe2M1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Judging from the state of 221B in this picture, we can sympathize with Watson’s "…constant bullying to tidy our room in Baker Street" as referenced in Granada’s "</span><a href="http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0685625/quotes" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Granada MUSG quotes">The Musgrave Ritual</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">”.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div>--<br />

Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (June 23 - June 30, 2013)

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by Scott Monty

Episode 53: For the Sake of the Trust

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpBKCFHcXc_ZMFBNtMMCN-cYCmKJADckpvfMI1vSgBUb9p3tb4h3Uf3UnrepKxKZTNeZGt3b1llRH7x5Yv3X-HlGWM4X5D5Ykg8GL9MFre31N_ajdonzTwz9_-juFMW0bzuCm24R9xShp/s1600/Musg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpBKCFHcXc_ZMFBNtMMCN-cYCmKJADckpvfMI1vSgBUb9p3tb4h3Uf3UnrepKxKZTNeZGt3b1llRH7x5Yv3X-HlGWM4X5D5Ykg8GL9MFre31N_ajdonzTwz9_-juFMW0bzuCm24R9xShp/s1600/Musg.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2352920/height/90/width/600/theme/custom/autoplay/yes/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/no-cache/true/render-playlist/no/custom-color/9c8301/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> The Baker Street Irregulars are widely known as a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes. Since 1934 the group has been gathering in New York City for <a href="http://bsiweekend.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">its annual dinner and weekend festivities</a> and has embarked on <b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale.html">a significant publishing effort</a></b> centered around<b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsihistoryseries.html"> its own history</a></b>, <b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsiinternationalseries.html">international Sherlockian societies' scholarship</a></b>, and analysis of extant <b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsimanuscriptseries.html">manuscripts of the Canon</a></b>.<br /> <br /> But more than that, the BSI wants to ensure that its own history and that of its members are recorded for posterity and the researchers who may be interested in it sometime in the future. Enter <a href="http://bsitrust.org/" style="font-weight: bold;">the Baker Street Irregulars Trust</a>.<br /> <br /> In this episode, Burt and Scott interview Tom Francis, BSI ("The Imperial Opera at Warsaw), who is the Chair of the Trust. Tom helps us understand how and why the Trust was established, what its aims are, and how you can help this august institution. We discuss some of the holdings of the Houghton Library at Harvard University, where the Trust is housed, including the H.W. Bell collection - Bell having been an early Sherlockian scholar and member of The Speckled Band of Boston.<br /> <br /> The BSI Trust is a nonprofit organization as a subset of the Baker Street Irregulars. Donations are welcome, but original materials are more desirable. Correspondence of Irregulars and their other papers are welcome - but the Trust does is not interested in everything Sherlockian or related to all Sherlockian societies. Books and other items that are not a core part of the Trust typically go up for sale or auction.<br /> <br /> Tom breaks ground as he utters a phrase never before heard on this program - tune in to find out exactly what that is - and even begins to delve into what the future of the Trust looks like in our digital/electronic times.<br /> <br /> <b>Links:</b><br /> <ul> <li><b><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/">The BSI Trust</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou02178">The finding aid for the Houghton Library collections</a></b></li> <li>How individuals can <b><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/donations">make monetary donations or materials donations</a></b> to the BSIT  </li> <li><b><a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/newsletter">"For the Sake of the Trust"</a></b> - the BSI Trust newsletter</li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/134354886&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe><br /> </center> <center> <br /></center> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/ihearofsherlock/ihearofsherlock053.mp3"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TL5jgdrUh_nM_zlDgxql-jKOFGUVFqhoV6A2JtYklXOu4qmVDyRVbwGV6XrwXZgnG9awSwJ7td-txL1_4KGrpSf4igJLILOim4yJmX5pGTPIdMhCBYLyImSI5gs1MOMUZPAlpAgvtPdb/s1600/podcastIcon.gif" /></a></span></div> <div style="margin: 0px;">  Download this episode by right-clicking the icon and selecting "Save As..." or simply click on the file to listen, or on the player above. 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Episode 53: For the Sake of the Trust

The Baker Street Irregulars are widely known as a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes. Since 1934 the group ha...

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The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes Is Coming

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> "the very latest construction" [STOC]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp12i7ZPXYvQuov3H7T6zfteeFi8hKm3xPUJA87bilEVDwUCcXicvimtczdjLw9CkGtckjH7k7TVwxHlEJt3sAlWC8ta4agSq70y5tqZFAHDG5hgTBcP6bZWKajH2jBLPMrLSayNWyq8n9/s1600/SHE_PressImage_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp12i7ZPXYvQuov3H7T6zfteeFi8hKm3xPUJA87bilEVDwUCcXicvimtczdjLw9CkGtckjH7k7TVwxHlEJt3sAlWC8ta4agSq70y5tqZFAHDG5hgTBcP6bZWKajH2jBLPMrLSayNWyq8n9/s640/SHE_PressImage_1.jpg" width="566" /></a></div> <br /> The <b><a href="http://www.sherlockholmesexhibition.com/" target="_blank">International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes</a></b> is coming to the <b><a href="https://www.omsi.edu/" target="_blank">Oregon Museum of Science and Industry</a></b> in just 125 days.<br /> <br /> A collaborative effort between Conan Doyle Estate Ltd., Exhibits Development Group (EDG), Geoffrey M. Curley + Associates (GMCA), and OMSI, this unique and interactive experience showcases areas of forensic science that enabled Sherlock Holmes to solve crimes, as well as the historic underpinnings of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s rich and vibrant stories.<br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>In an effort to give visitors a sense of the world of Sherlock Holmes, how he used forensic science to help solve crimes, and the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life, the exhibition will feature the following displays:<br /> <ul> <li><b>Dr. Conan Doyle’s Study</b> – Conan Doyle, a scientifically educated physician, was a curious and tireless investigator his entire life. Guests will discover his world first as a medical student at Edinburgh University, then as an apprentice at Royal Surgeons’ Hall there, and finally as a creator of literary genius while practicing medicine in Southsea, Portsmouth, in the 1880s, and London in the early 1890s. On display will be an original manuscript, letters, and illustrations through which guests will gain perspective on the experiences that influenced Conan Doyle in creating Sherlock Holmes.</li> <li><b>Science and History</b> – Sherlock Holmes solved mysteries using observation and solid scientific experimentation, something real-world detectives (police or private) had not yet embraced. Guests will participate in experiments of their own by exploring the developments in science and technology in the 1890s, developments still very relevant today. Supported by forensics expert and crime historian E. J. Wagner, author of <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2TTHtt0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Science of Sherlock Holmes</a></b></i>, the exhibition digs into real forensic studies in order to demonstrate the link between the Sherlock Holmes stories’ detective science and the world of today.</li> <li><b>Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street</b> – Guests will visit Sherlock Holmes’ and Dr. Watson’s sitting-room at 221B Baker Street, London, where their investigations began and concluded – a room looming large in popular imagination around the globe ever since the first Sherlock Holmes tale A Study in Scarlet in 1887. Of it, poet Vincent Starrett said: “Here dwell together still two men of note / Who never lived and so can never die . . .Here, though the world explode, these two survive / And it is always eighteen ninety-five.” </li> <li><b>Become a Detective </b>– Guests will replace the museum map with a book full of clues while hot on a trail to solve a remarkable murder. Using their own powers of observation, guests can crack a new Sherlock Holmes mystery written exclusively for this exhibition by <b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/11/episode-13-arthur-conan-doyle-life-in.html" target="_blank">Daniel Stashower</a></b>, the acclaimed historian, award-winning Conan Doyle biographer (author of <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Gl0koM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle</a></i></b> and co-editor of <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/30P6SFl" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters</a></i></b>), and author of new Sherlock Holmes stories as well.</li> <li><b>Culture of Sherlock</b> – Pop culture enthusiasts will enjoy the exhibition’s final gallery, housing a robust collection of all things “Sherlockian,” ranging from vintage Sherlock Holmes-themed card games, comics, and magazines, to radio broadcasts, movie clips, and television shows. Featured are costumes worn by Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Warner Bros.’ current Sherlock Holmes movies set in the Victorian era, alongside costumes and props from the CBS hit television show Elementary, setting Sherlock Holmes in present day. The exhibition will offer museum guests the most comprehensive display anywhere of Sherlock Holmes in the popular imagination over the 126 years since his creation. The conclusion of the exhibition celebrates today’s real forensic scientists and their exceptional work.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDa4F-tomI5_klEOHneSDw-Lbal4qR0NQVp6I56GZ5OKthHcaErs16QS0HpWSn-hAJkF67WXB2I1Y4aK-bn-ef6UhmaYvDtsf5842felOTGn1uZrebwGPefkiTEDdhn4Bg1PCaN5_eytC/s1600/Scene+of+the+Crime_credited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDa4F-tomI5_klEOHneSDw-Lbal4qR0NQVp6I56GZ5OKthHcaErs16QS0HpWSn-hAJkF67WXB2I1Y4aK-bn-ef6UhmaYvDtsf5842felOTGn1uZrebwGPefkiTEDdhn4Bg1PCaN5_eytC/s400/Scene+of+the+Crime_credited.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXBtcuUXNAQtM-aTBHgle5So5kmIrsX8VLAXglqpOkHltstHmg3r_tvVlZR_aL2UOlefc_k_ncTAPNs3rYi8UhfdSirDyY-K5gYK2kOuoYnOQP3NKICeXob-r5wA9RsXQS2aLO2faV82D/s1600/Train+Station_credited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXBtcuUXNAQtM-aTBHgle5So5kmIrsX8VLAXglqpOkHltstHmg3r_tvVlZR_aL2UOlefc_k_ncTAPNs3rYi8UhfdSirDyY-K5gYK2kOuoYnOQP3NKICeXob-r5wA9RsXQS2aLO2faV82D/s400/Train+Station_credited.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> The work on the exhibit is about half completed, and we're pleased to have some images from the construction.<br /> <div style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px;"> <div style="display: block; font: 14px helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px;"> <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/146331945/The-International-Exhibition-of-Sherlock-Holmes-at-the-Oregon-Museum-of-Science-and-Industry#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry on Scribd">The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes</a> </div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/146331945/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=false&access_key=key-25b2srbu6t3y7x6nxq1u" title="The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> The Exhibition will open on October 11, 2013 at the OSMI, before embarking on a ten city tour throughout North America and then internationally. More information available at <a href="http://www.sherlockholmesexhibition.com/">www.sherlockholmesexhibition.com</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h3> BONUS:</h3> We had an opportunity to chat with Geoffrey Curley and Amy Noble Seitz about the development of the Exhibition in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose158" target="_blank">Episode 158</a>:<div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/546052851&color=0c69a5" width="100%"></iframe></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal;"> --</div> </div> </div> </div>

The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes Is Coming

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by Scott Monty

May Birthdays of Three Legendary Actors Associated with Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>"great reverence at the famous" [HOUN] </b></h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2KlYFlxeKGEp95pUMAWYfxx5zSTUsICnxtGLSNWbyRMRdofVwdkEImP46w5cs-9ATZIy_gJSs-jRL5JPJ7ztGmZsdsar5r32wdh-yjzfwRalY7AWzW8_NtwBfGpBXjtGr6upt5VIY41b/s1600/cushing-price-lee.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2KlYFlxeKGEp95pUMAWYfxx5zSTUsICnxtGLSNWbyRMRdofVwdkEImP46w5cs-9ATZIy_gJSs-jRL5JPJ7ztGmZsdsar5r32wdh-yjzfwRalY7AWzW8_NtwBfGpBXjtGr6upt5VIY41b/s1600/cushing-price-lee.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> The last two days mark birthdays of three legendary actors associated with Sherlock Holmes. Each is known beyond his Sherlock Holmes work, but together their collective Sherlockian CVs are impressive.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cushing" target="_blank">Peter Cushing</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price" target="_blank">Vincent Price</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee" target="_blank">Christopher Lee</a> are icons of the screen spanning the majority of the 20th century and into the 21st. They all had a significant impact on the noir, horror and sci-fi realms and had cheekbones that could cut glass.<br /> <br /> So let's take a look at these three gentlemen on the anniversaries of their birth and on how they touched the world particularly through their Sherlock Holmes-related roles.<br /> <h3> <br /> "Lee a gentleman" [TWIS]</h3> We'll start with Sir Christopher Lee, as his association with the great detective is the most impressive. On May 27, 2013 Christopher Lee turned 91. He appeared in the 1959 Hammer version of <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3z2o4ui" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i></b> as Sir Henry Baskerville, alongside Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes.  Then, in 1962, Lee took a turn as Sherlock Holmes himself in the 1962 film <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3MMnsNo" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace</a></i></b>.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7VO1lB1Vfq6U3g2PiN1i7iDiETgHG2h5BefleWclqfGdEm1CEAhyphenhyphens8Pws9J8zVtxDlkM3Jg1Y5AxhWHoFG8l35Pq-tdBe57LQXNfmr__LyDMRgkGVMc1GHfaxyLLRaaxeU3SVPEK8jrff/s1600/christopher+lee+sherlock.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7VO1lB1Vfq6U3g2PiN1i7iDiETgHG2h5BefleWclqfGdEm1CEAhyphenhyphens8Pws9J8zVtxDlkM3Jg1Y5AxhWHoFG8l35Pq-tdBe57LQXNfmr__LyDMRgkGVMc1GHfaxyLLRaaxeU3SVPEK8jrff/w453-h640/christopher+lee+sherlock.jpg" width="453" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The only mystery I can't solve is why I'm forced <br /> to wear this ridiculous windowpane check.</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /><div> Then eight years later, Lee was to do what no other actor had done until then or has done since: he went from playing Sherlock Holmes to playing Mycroft Holmes. He lost the deerstalker (and his toupee) and joined Robert Stephens in Billy Wilder's <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3yXaUi3" target="_blank">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</a></b></i> in 1970, in a fantastical plot that involved Loch Ness, a submarine and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRuUnXjMxZ0" target="_blank">a visit from Queen Victoria</a> herself.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eRuUnXjMxZ0" width="640"></iframe></center> <br /> Then, in the early 1990s, Lee teamed up with Patrick Macnee as his Watson and made two films: <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3NDSLtI" target="_blank"><b>Incident at Victoria Falls</b></a></i> and <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3wSTwIC" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady</a></b></i> that took a look at Holmes in his retirement years.<br /> <br /> Finally, Lee took on the job of host in <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/39TkUP0" target="_blank">The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes</a></i></b>, in which he took us through the legion of actors who have portrayed the master detective throughout the years on stage, television and film. It's a fun overview, and while incomplete by today's standards, as we've had two decades of Holmeses since then, it helps to ground viewers in some of the popular manifestations of Sherlock Holmes throughout the years. We highly recommend picking up a copy of the DVD (available in the above link).<br /> <h3> <br /> "Cushing was horrified" [CARD]</h3> May 26, 2013 marks the centenary of Peter Cushing's birth. Born in 1913, Cushing graced the large and small screen as Sherlock Holmes over the course of a number of decades. As we mentioned above, Cushing had a turn in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> (1959), with Andre Morrell as his Watson. Then, it was to return to him in the mid-1960s when Douglas Wilmer gave up the role on <b><a href="https://amzn.to/38KFuRC" target="_blank">the BBC television series for 16 episodes</a></b>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwEmRi2gdkDGbTtVQmb-rnkO4QokIl9UkQhQ-WQvRSquxpR7Mk9AK6mavwgJ4izqWqY-5fw_cRKwHUgaWqxiZg3Olj6vrTrb870J2xQq_Nqae6r1ck6I80WOb4VJQnaNlL46L50Tw4mSz/s1600/Peter+Cushing+-+221B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="891" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwEmRi2gdkDGbTtVQmb-rnkO4QokIl9UkQhQ-WQvRSquxpR7Mk9AK6mavwgJ4izqWqY-5fw_cRKwHUgaWqxiZg3Olj6vrTrb870J2xQq_Nqae6r1ck6I80WOb4VJQnaNlL46L50Tw4mSz/s640/Peter+Cushing+-+221B.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> The series was well received and is critically acclaimed now despite the hectic production schedules that put the actor on timetables of less than two weeks for each episode. The final episode was "The Blue Carbuncle," and by that time, viewers could see the close and amiable relationship Cushing had developed with his Watson, Nigel Stock. We commented on the very same thing during <b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/12/episode-49-ill-have-blue-christmas.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 49 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a></b>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbuhd14oQCyHlN0GAb-yt1V39EaPjNTZkEtkS8hY1osSuPj60heEanYTIVs3NkKqBpIA2EGQm6D2lok-csZK6IDKfw0ujci5qoi6hllJQAugiOm879pQ72zPQzo3ZOK8wXjYlRKXPvqfT/s1600/gamesafoot+Cushing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="385" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbuhd14oQCyHlN0GAb-yt1V39EaPjNTZkEtkS8hY1osSuPj60heEanYTIVs3NkKqBpIA2EGQm6D2lok-csZK6IDKfw0ujci5qoi6hllJQAugiOm879pQ72zPQzo3ZOK8wXjYlRKXPvqfT/s400/gamesafoot+Cushing.jpg" width="192" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Cushing returned to the screen in the 1984 film <i>Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death</i> looking quite elderly, with an equally aged John Mills by his side. But his relationship with Holmes was not merely through his career; Cushing was genuinely interested in the Canon. In fact, he was an active member of the Sherlock Holmes society <b>The Northern Musgraves</b>, and the group even adopted his freehand sketch of Holmes as their official logo (second image below). Those interested in the more private, tender and humorous side of the actor would do well to pick up a copy of the biography <b><a href="https://amzn.to/3aqv363" target="_blank"><i>Peter Cushing: A Life in Film</i></a></b> as well.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL48dz5MqAgkhCVy7RQEiNnzfmRnfS8E2dfEcNQdPNSgMQccmIG73ZaaBeS8tiSXnYte7gNzggH6WyTLpoHu-htXdnwT0ME6Rm5BPxem3T2wlm_n2BQy2yLoLPDWeqZu3rX7YyEC8ja2JN/s1600/Peter+Cushing+-+Dr.+Watson+sketch.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL48dz5MqAgkhCVy7RQEiNnzfmRnfS8E2dfEcNQdPNSgMQccmIG73ZaaBeS8tiSXnYte7gNzggH6WyTLpoHu-htXdnwT0ME6Rm5BPxem3T2wlm_n2BQy2yLoLPDWeqZu3rX7YyEC8ja2JN/s1600/Peter+Cushing+-+Dr.+Watson+sketch.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Watson by Peter Cushing</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITsRJ5z2ifwPRvSWcbm53plj4Od3iE12FYXgCTl0dLiia_JFhyphenhyphenwgO6TfthtMRy22puAIwlyJCULSmY9VEB99aVc_CT244LaMgqilgTHC8kJnd5Lpv0xSFZwNvP3lQrJZ5RGy6-OD1KnJf/s1600/Peter+Cushing+-+Sherlock+Holmes+sketch.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITsRJ5z2ifwPRvSWcbm53plj4Od3iE12FYXgCTl0dLiia_JFhyphenhyphenwgO6TfthtMRy22puAIwlyJCULSmY9VEB99aVc_CT244LaMgqilgTHC8kJnd5Lpv0xSFZwNvP3lQrJZ5RGy6-OD1KnJf/s1600/Peter+Cushing+-+Sherlock+Holmes+sketch.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sherlock Holmes by Peter Cushing - the official logo of the Northern Musgraves</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <h3> "And you, Mr. Price?" [STOC]</h3> Our final entrant in this triumvirate of Sherlockian birthdays is none other than Vincent Price, who would have been 102 years old on May 27, 2013. Price made his debut in the horror genre in the 1939 film <i>Tower of London</i> with Boris Karloff, and was seemingly typecast from then on. His career spanned over five decades, and Price had two very significant associations with Sherlock Holmes along the way.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETROISKn-ID7x9dEU1s8SobbnOqcangsPQTQVe_ok_aOR4qBN4iiZzzQcxwT6aAsrI1qWRpj0oAj5NCXk40XKrWLOJzgeNi8yihfGBgjCAKm6i9jb3VDXt7732R1I526sVZ4S0hQShyphenhyphenkF/s1600/vincent+price+ratigan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETROISKn-ID7x9dEU1s8SobbnOqcangsPQTQVe_ok_aOR4qBN4iiZzzQcxwT6aAsrI1qWRpj0oAj5NCXk40XKrWLOJzgeNi8yihfGBgjCAKm6i9jb3VDXt7732R1I526sVZ4S0hQShyphenhyphenkF/s1600/vincent+price+ratigan.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> One was his portrayal of the evil Moriarty-inspired Professor Ratigan in <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3PV9MBQ" target="_blank">The Great Mouse Detective</a></i></b> (1986). Price had always wanted to portray the voice of a Disney character, and this film allowed him to do just that. His portrayal is classic Vincent Price, moving from charming dark humor to pure evil with a seeming blink of an eye.<br /> <br /> Also during that time (from 1981-1989, to be exact), Vincent Price was the host for the PBS production of <b><i>Mystery!</i></b> which featured such detectives as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Albert Campion, Adam Dalgliesh, Father Brown, Inspector Morse, Lord Peter Wimsey, Horace Rumpole and of course, Sherlock Holmes. <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/05/one-of-best-features-of-jeremy-brett.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Price's introductions for the Granada series</a> starring Jeremy Brett were as rich in setting as the episodes themselves. Friends of ours in the Baker Street Irregulars and The Speckled Band of Boston contributed to the writing of these, as well as to the set decoration.<br /> <br /> Sadly, these introductions are not part of the DVD collections of the Granada series that one may purchase,  but some are still available on YouTube today. Here is <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9g-AluIe5g&list=PLO6tqafE6tLQB_u1dFBU3s1eq3NRY9kp8">a playlist that contains many of them</a></b>.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g9g-AluIe5g?list=PLO6tqafE6tLQB_u1dFBU3s1eq3NRY9kp8" width="640"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> We hope you've enjoyed this ramble through the connections of three greats of the stage and screen. And if you're interested in more, please take a look at some of the affiliate links we've provided to Amazon.<br /> <br /> <i>Image credit: top image is a publicity shot from <a href="http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2010/05/birthday-greetings-to-vincent-price-and-christopher-lee/" target="_blank">The House of Long Shadows</a>, 1983.</i><br /> <br /> --</div>

May Birthdays of Three Legendary Actors Associated with Sherlock Holmes

"great reverence at the famous" [HOUN]  The last two days mark birthdays of three legendary actors associated with Sherlock H...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 52: Sherlockian Mythbusters

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEq5boB135u3RNdajDw7imRmSxZ4YUUnAfurSdi-2Fm42334maiHKyBStWkMIuo97zS02uvI190xz9hh80sb8mWA5ZSoCRpSkJdvhQt2w76ObLmZ8GPaUl4K_qRWbTeo-hm2oKNGsH-8C_/s1600/thor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEq5boB135u3RNdajDw7imRmSxZ4YUUnAfurSdi-2Fm42334maiHKyBStWkMIuo97zS02uvI190xz9hh80sb8mWA5ZSoCRpSkJdvhQt2w76ObLmZ8GPaUl4K_qRWbTeo-hm2oKNGsH-8C_/s320/thor.jpg" width="272" /></a></div> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2319121/height/90/width/600/theme/custom/autoplay/yes/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/no-cache/true/render-playlist/no/custom-color/6c6c6c/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe></center> <br /> When a figure like Sherlock Holmes has been around for over a century, there are bound to be misconceptions that creep into public thinking. We blame this not on carelessness or laziness but rather on the overwhelming popularity of the great detective.<br /> <br /> The image of Holmes clad in deerstalker and Inverness cape, clenching a Meerschaum pipe in his teeth is the universal, if cliched, image of a detective. But was it true?<br /> <br /> We were recently reminded of a number of classic myths about Sherlock Holmes, thanks to <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/armbands.html">a contest being sponsored by <b><i>The Baker Street Journal</i></b></a> (also a sponsor of our program): it has long been rumored that men wore black armbands throughout the city of London after reading "The Final Problem" in the <i>Strand Magazine</i>. And only anecdotal evidence has been referenced whenever this supposed fact is brought up. The BSJ is offering a free year's subscription to anyone who can definitively prove that such mourning attire was worn in response to the death of Sherlock Holmes.<br /> <br /> <br /> That got us to thinking: what other Sherlockian myths are there? And are we guilty of propagating any of them ourselves? Join us for a quick game show-style question and answer session on the topic, as well as a reading of your comments from our last show and some recent news from the world of Sherlock Holmes.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>The Editor's Gas-Lamp:</b> Rather than the traditional gas-lamp, which began under Edgar Smith's editorship of the Baker Street Journal, we thought we would mark May 5 as the 123rd anniversary of Christopher Morley's birth by reading two of his poems: the very short "The Secret" and the quite remarkable "Toulemonde."<br /> <br /> <b>Links:</b><br /> <div> <ul> <li><b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsihistoryseries.html">BSI Archival History Series available for sale</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/armbands.html">The <i>Baker Street Journal</i> contest</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/05/remind-me-of-edgar-stud_2.html">Sherlock Holmes-related 2013 Edgar Award winners and nominees</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/05/monsieur-oscar-meunier-of-grenoble-empt.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Stand with me here upon the terrace" for Irving Kamil</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/dealtable.html">The Deal Table from the BSJ</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Morley-Literary-Estate/287552511355101?ref=br_tf">The Christopher Morley Literary Estate on Facebook</a></b></li> <li>Sherlockian Mythbusters: "<b><a href="http://youtu.be/m0etbZuM2yw">Thor Bridge</a></b>" and "<b><a href="http://youtu.be/UTBOH86H7as">The Engineer's Thumb</a></b>"</li> </ul> </div> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/m0etbZuM2yw" width="420"></iframe> <br /> <br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UTBOH86H7as" width="420"></iframe></center> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/134354581&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/ihearofsherlock/ihearofsherlock052.mp3"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TL5jgdrUh_nM_zlDgxql-jKOFGUVFqhoV6A2JtYklXOu4qmVDyRVbwGV6XrwXZgnG9awSwJ7td-txL1_4KGrpSf4igJLILOim4yJmX5pGTPIdMhCBYLyImSI5gs1MOMUZPAlpAgvtPdb/s1600/podcastIcon.gif" /></a></span></div> <div style="margin: 0px;">  Download this episode by right-clicking the icon and selecting "Save As..." or simply click on the file to listen, or on the player above. 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Episode 52: Sherlockian Mythbusters

When a figure like Sherlock Holmes has been around for over a century, there are bound to be misconceptions that creep into public thi...

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by Scott Monty

Remembering Irving Kamil, BSI

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble" [EMPT] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpoRoe_-wM_mor3PtZzadIKk1-uFzqaL2wMQqL178Ayx5sW-Ibj_nGvimJaPZIL3WTYtfYF8X7xHY598nWokMdhiTuI3om9sXa6Cjb1hbcmsYU6aGYI49kUYuHGO_Fg4L5xWke6CtPuA/s1600/Irving+Kamil+Obit.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpoRoe_-wM_mor3PtZzadIKk1-uFzqaL2wMQqL178Ayx5sW-Ibj_nGvimJaPZIL3WTYtfYF8X7xHY598nWokMdhiTuI3om9sXa6Cjb1hbcmsYU6aGYI49kUYuHGO_Fg4L5xWke6CtPuA/s640/Irving+Kamil+Obit.JPG" width="424" /></a></div> <br /> Occasionally we remember members of the BSI who have gone to the other side of the Reichenbach. This one was a particularly difficult one for us.<br /> <br /> Irving Kamil, BSI ("Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble") died on April 26, 2013 at the age of 86. He was a chemistry teacher, assistant principal and principal in the New York City school system for 41 years, retiring in 1990. Irv graduated from Central Methodist College and received a Master's Degree from Columbia University Teachers College.<br /> <br /> Irv was a WWII U.S. Navy veteran, a former member and president of the Cliffside Park Board of Education and president of Temple Israel in Cliffside Park. He wrote over 40 articles that were published in The New York Times and other papers, taught a mystery course at The New School, was a member of The Wolfe Pack, and was an avid three-times-a-week bridge player.<br /> <br /> In 1976 Irv, Norm Schatell, and Harlan Umansky founded Mrs. Hudson's Cliffdwellers's of Cliffside Park, NJ after they attended an off-Broadway Sherlock Holmes play. They went to Molly Malone's Pub and as Irv tells the story, they came up with a song for the group, sang it with all their hearts -- and nobody paid the slightest bit of attention to them.<br /> <br /> For many years at the BSI Dinner, Irv had the honor of Standing on the Terrace for members of the BSI who had crossed over the Reichenbach. It was his eloquent and sensitive delivery honoring the lives of the members that prompted us to take up a similar effort on this site. He also wrote essays and poems that were published in <i><a href="http://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal </a></i>and other Sherlockian publications, and ran the Cliffdwellers for 21 years.<br /> <br /> Irv and his wife of over 60 years, Selma, traveled extensively and during their travels created what he called "non-meeting" Sherlockian societies in places such as the Great Wall of China, on the Amazon, in Sicily, Thailand, New Zealand, Vietnam, Jordan, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, among others.<br /> <br /> Irving Kamil was invested into The Baker Street Irregulars in 1981 as "Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble."<br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-36216041/irving-kamil-86-sherlock-holmes-society-founder" target="_blank">Another remembrance of his life</a> and <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=irving-kamil&pid=164475230&fhid=12213" target="_blank">his obituary</a> can be read here.<br /> <br /> <i>Image credit: (c) 2013 Amy Newman /<a href="http://northjersey.com/"> northjersey.com</a></i><br /> --<br /> <br />

Remembering Irving Kamil, BSI

"Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble" [EMPT]  Occasionally we remember members of the BSI who have gone to the other side of ...

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by Francine Kitts

Review: The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> "dealt with any public print" [RESI]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4043/4181741201_bb2856b9fd_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4043/4181741201_bb2856b9fd_o.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Although many Sherlock Holmes pastiches are published, very few often have the sparkle of Conan Doyle's writing. This is not a complaint - after all, attempting to document the great detective's further adventures often mean focusing more on the story and less on the style. However, <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/38B4DYW" target="_blank">The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes</a></i></b>, edited by Tony Reynolds and available via <a href="http://www.mxpublishing.co.uk/engine/shop/search?ssv=lost+sherlock+holmes" target="_blank">MX Publishing</a>, is the best of both worlds, containing some well-written stories that reflect the "house style" at its best.<br /> <br /> Thankfully, Reynolds does a very admirable job in writing a series of tales that could easily fit into the Canon, but that have an imagination and creativity all of their own. Even the first story - "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" - takes its cue from the Canon, but spins a decidedly distinctive tale. But page after page contains some wonderful, well-written adventures which (thankfully) contain a brief statement within as to why the tale was "omitted" (usually for reasons of either national security or personal embarrassment). <br /> <br /> Sometimes, imitation <i>is</i> the sincerest form of flattery, and for Sherlockians, finding the perfect Conan Doyle-esque copy can be a valiant quest. Thankfully, Tony Reynold's <b><i>Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes</i></b> makes the quest a little easier. It's a near-perfect gem of a book, and worth reading - and owning.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: red;"> <br /> </span>--<br /> <br /> <script type="text/javascript"> amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "scottmonty-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links"; amzn_assoc_asins = "1780924135"; amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "fd229a91d26aeca8f9f52fa01bff9fde"; </script><br /> <script src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US"></script><br /> <br /> Disclosure: we receive a small commission from Amazon when you buy books through our links.

Review: The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes

"dealt with any public print" [RESI] Although many Sherlock Holmes pastiches are published, very few often have the sparkle ...

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by Scott Monty

The Edgar Awards 2013 Show Sherlock Holmes's Staying Power

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <h4 style="text-align: center;"> "You remind me of Edgar" [STUD]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSV8LhUnOloXtieNg8og3HpoqOpOpMiONwWOIohrRxiFVK1ZlD575Hdlf1rrUVaune-wIBfIw-s6z8iPjQ7011kbWte0Rj4vRdU3hnlqRg9c5IP5nMsQ-7fpsH9kL5_kW4Vx1GeHtiag60/s1600/Poe.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSV8LhUnOloXtieNg8og3HpoqOpOpMiONwWOIohrRxiFVK1ZlD575Hdlf1rrUVaune-wIBfIw-s6z8iPjQ7011kbWte0Rj4vRdU3hnlqRg9c5IP5nMsQ-7fpsH9kL5_kW4Vx1GeHtiag60/s640/Poe.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> The evening of May 2 marked the 2013 <b><a href="http://theedgars.com/" target="_blank">Edgar<em style="background-color: white; color: #3f656e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</span></em> Awards</a></b> banquet, during which the winners of the <b><a href="http://www.mysterywriters.org/" target="_blank">Mystery Writers of America</a></b> grant the most prestigious award in the mystery genre to the authors and creators who gave us such treasures over the previous year.<br /> <br /> As usual, Sherlock Holmes-related and -inspired work was present across a number of categories of both nominees and winners, and we'd like to share the results that may be of interest to those of you who are either completists on your collecting habits or who simply like to know relevant news about works of Sherlock Holmes.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>Best Critical/Biographical</b></h3> <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Rkj1Pz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics</a></i></b> by James O'Brien (winner)<br /> <br /> <b><a href="https://amzn.to/2RkXaYo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero</i></a></b> edited by Otto Penzler (nominee). Otto of course is a Baker Street Irregular ("The King of Bohemia") and was interviewed on <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2008/01/episode-17-collectors-corner-otto.html" target="_blank">Episode 17 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>Best TV Episode / Teleplay</b></h3> "<b><a href="https://amzn.to/2GguB84" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Scandal in Belgravia</a></b>" - Sherlock, teleplay by Stephen Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece) (winner)<br /> <br /> "<b><a href="https://amzn.to/36pVbGq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Child Predator</a></b>" - elemeNtarY, teleplay by Peter Black (CBS Productions) (nominee)<br /> <br /> And while not exactly Sherlockian, we can't help but mention <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2upMXkm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Gods of Gotham</a></i></b> by Lyndsay Faye, BSI, ASH ("Kitty Winter"), which was a nominee for Best Novel. Set in New York in 1845, this widely acclaimed novel followed her barnburner <b><a href="https://amzn.to/2tKfC3u" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Dust and Shadow</i></a></b>, in which she imagined the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper, as told by Dr. Watson. The award for this category went to Dennis Lehane, but we're extremely proud of our friend and colleague for keeping company with such a superstar - and deservedly so!<br /> <br /> Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees and thank you for all that you do.<br /> <br /> <i>When you make purchases from the links we share, it provides us with a stream of revenue to help keep this site running. 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The Edgar Awards 2013 Show Sherlock Holmes's Staying Power

"You remind me of Edgar" [STUD] The evening of May 2 marked the 2013 Edgar ®  Awards banquet, during which the winners of...

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Tonga Was One of the Most Isolated People in the World

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> "an isolated phenomenon" [GREE]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJQDLpNdUSrNgNHjWiJ-QsFbGrKYlGw-spZQ8BJBww6bX_ibxglrhXgMIPypXmDYnh13Bs7lO3FMoalMFah7h9FyF3QW8Gqbwc-2XRF4jwV6AKLBDR4Rsn44bHr9ggWx9MgQyBNasS0FV/s1600/sign+of+four.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJQDLpNdUSrNgNHjWiJ-QsFbGrKYlGw-spZQ8BJBww6bX_ibxglrhXgMIPypXmDYnh13Bs7lO3FMoalMFah7h9FyF3QW8Gqbwc-2XRF4jwV6AKLBDR4Rsn44bHr9ggWx9MgQyBNasS0FV/s1600/sign+of+four.jpg" /></a></div> When we recently came across an entry from <b><a href="http://nowiknow.com/">Now I Know</a></b>, a free daily newsletter that promises "you'll learn something new every day," (click through to subscribe) it was almost as if it had been written for us. So we did what was only natural: we reached out to the editor and asked if we might share the original post here. He gracefully agreed.<br /> <br /> But before we delve into the details behind this rather interesting bit of trivia, let's explore the Canonical mention (<b>CAUTION</b>: there may be <b>spoilers </b>ahead if you haven't yet read <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2RL8ls9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sign of Four</a></b></i>).<br /> <br /> The mystery begins with Holmes and Watson being visited by Mary Morstan, whose father served in the army in India at Fort Agra. Major Morstan disappeared 10 years prior, leaving behind his luggage and some curiosities from the Andaman Islands. Since that time, Ms. Mortan received pearls annually and has been invited to discover the origin of the same by Thaddeus Sholto, son of Maj. John Sholto, who served with Morstan.<br /> <br /> Upon arrival at Pondicherry Lodge, the group learned that Bartholomew Sholto is dead, having himself been hit with a poisoned thorn. All that remained were child-like footprints and a stick with a stone head tied to it like a hammer.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Holmes pieced the elements together: small footprints, strange weapons, individuals who have been in India for some time. He concluded that the perpetrator must have come from the Andaman Islands:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> This is the first volume of a gazetteer which is now being published. It may be looked upon as the very latest authority. What have we here? `Andaman Islands, situated 340 miles to the north of Sumatra, in the Bay of Bengal.' Hum! hum! What's all this? Moist climate, coral reefs, sharks, Port Blair, convict barracks, Rutland Island, cottonwoods - Ah, here we are! `The aborigines of the Andaman Islands may perhaps claim the distinction of being the smallest race upon this earth, though some anthropologists prefer the Bushmen of Africa, the Digger Indians of America, and the Terra del Fuegians. The average height is rather below four feet, although many full-grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this. They are a fierce, morose, and intractable people, though capable of forming most devoted friendships when their confidence has once been gained.' Mark that, Watson. Now, then, listen to this. `They are naturally hideous, having large, misshapen heads, small, fierce eyes, and distorted features. Their feet and hands, however, are remarkably small. So intractable and fierce are they that all the efforts of the British officials have failed to win them over in any degree. They have always been a terror to shipwrecked crews, braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs, or shooting them with their poisoned arrows. These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast.' Nice, amiable people, Watson! If this fellow had been left to his own unaided devices this affair might have taken an even more ghastly turn. I fancy that, even as it is, Jonathan Small would give a good deal not to have employed him. </blockquote> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2D1kG2XA9E9Tz3yV0atSn-w8v7BnQbVf9XPcpU_9g_meo21cF7S4FR7WkS0h5kcY-uDwMQH5hF_0OUbarFt6EhlZTG6W8KnAdAcfncs8mjUKYGdsq11n_08P9llCHx4Vf5Xt42Mmq4Z28/s1600/Tonga.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2D1kG2XA9E9Tz3yV0atSn-w8v7BnQbVf9XPcpU_9g_meo21cF7S4FR7WkS0h5kcY-uDwMQH5hF_0OUbarFt6EhlZTG6W8KnAdAcfncs8mjUKYGdsq11n_08P9llCHx4Vf5Xt42Mmq4Z28/s640/Tonga.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> There we have the setup. Now without further ado, here's "<a href="http://nowiknow.com/the-most-isolated-people-in-the-world/">The Most Isolated People in the World</a>" from Now I Know:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjluzf2EVD9Ptt732OtI6LqChe1bh3WOIATFq7SMYR8EF283tZXsedU6ZeA-JDDTYkBv3rw4pn3Yy2eOMK4XjL4pkE7Cg0NN8BLGDwCfUXRR2zk9kWQJcCp6uLn64v8CUpt2gmnFy2xl-DR/s1600/North-Sentinel-Island.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjluzf2EVD9Ptt732OtI6LqChe1bh3WOIATFq7SMYR8EF283tZXsedU6ZeA-JDDTYkBv3rw4pn3Yy2eOMK4XjL4pkE7Cg0NN8BLGDwCfUXRR2zk9kWQJcCp6uLn64v8CUpt2gmnFy2xl-DR/s320/North-Sentinel-Island.png" width="190" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The part of the Indian Ocean encapsulated by the eastern shore of India and the shores of Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma) is called the Bay of Bengal (map). The eastern edge of the Bay of Bengal is defined as a set of islands called the Andaman Islands, an archipelago, most of which are under control of India. North Sentinel Island, a small dot of land, is part of the Andaman Islands. North Sentinel Island is set just west of the larger islands in the group, as seen as the red area in the map at the top. (For further context, the island is flagged <b><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=11.55,92.233333&ll=12.039321,94.570313&spn=24.782025,36.386719&t=p&z=5">on the map here</a></b> – be sure to zoom in.)<br /> <br /> Between 50 and 400 people are estimated to live on North Sentinel Island. These people, known as the Sentinelese, are perhaps the most isolated people in the world and are believed to be pre-Neolithic — literally, technologically in the Stone Age. By and large, the Sentinelese have gone uncontacted by outsiders for centuries if not millennia — in part because the Sentinelese do not take kindly to visitors.<br /> <br /> In 1967, Indian authorities began their first meaningful attempt to engage the Sentinelese by leaving coconuts as gifts on the island’s shores. While some progress was made over the course of a few decades, the quality and quantity of contact was minimal at best. Seven years later, anthropologist Trilokinath Pandit and a film crew attempted to woo the Sentinelese into friendly contact with gifts, such as fruit, a pig, some toys, and pots and pans. The result was not positive: a film director was shot in the thigh with an arrow. In the 1990s, India cut off its permission for these anthropological endeavors, citing risks seen in contacting other uncontacted tribes as well as the fear of introducing diseases from mainland India to the Sentinelese people, whose physiologies almost certainly would be ill prepared to recover from.<br /> <br /> More recent events strongly buttresses that this decision to cut off hopes of contact is just fine with the Sentinelese. In 2006, a pair of fishermen were plying their trade, illegally, off North Sentinel Island’s shore. <b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1509987/Stone-Age-tribe-kills-fishermen-who-strayed-on-to-island.html">Sentinelese archers killed the fishermen</a></b>. When a helicopter came to recover the bodies, the helicopter too was met with a hail of arrows, and retreated before fulfilling its mission.<br /> <br /> What do we know about the Sentinelese? Understandably, very little. They live in huts and are hunter-gatherers, employing the use of javelins, bows and arrows, and harpoons. They speak a language unique to them (also called, by outsiders, “Sentinelese”) which we have no way of translating. The Sentinelese appear to use pig skulls as ornaments of some sort, and have employed the use of red dye in both clothing and what is best guessed to be decoration.<br /> <br /> And that, unfortunately, is all we may ever learn. As India has given up almost all hope of making further contact with the Sentinelese, these people are considered autonomous and, in a very real sense, the most isolated people on the planet. It seems like a matter of time before they and their culture die off, becoming a historical footnote. On the other hand, the Sentinelese are resilient — some estimate that they have lived on North Sentinel Island for 60,000 years, and in any event, the Sentinelese somehow survived the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 (which <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004_Indonesia_Tsunami_Complete.gif">probably hit the island</a></b>). </blockquote> <br /> Could Tonga have been part of the Sentinelese people? Given his rather irascible personality, it doesn't sound like a stretch. The blowpipe would seem to equate with the archers and the hammer-like weapon is clearly Neolithic in nature.<br /> <br /> And when one considers that he was "a fine boatman" according to Johnathan Small, it's not unlikely that he left Sentinel Island and made his way to some of the other Andaman Islands where he took ill. It was there that Small nursed him back to health and was able to attain a degree of loyalty from the islander, whom Small said was "as venomous as a young snake."<br /> <br /> While we may never know with certainty which of the Andaman Islands Tonga called home, our preference is for Sentinel Island, home of the most isolated people in the world.<br /> <br /> <i>When you make purchases from the links we share, it provides us with a stream of revenue to help keep this site running. 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Tonga Was One of the Most Isolated People in the World

"an isolated phenomenon" [GREE] When we recently came across an entry from Now I Know , a free daily newsletter that promises ...

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by Scott Monty

Remembering Ted Schulz, BSI

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> "I'm sorry councillor, but it's Ted" [VALL]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_Xf_u1ACcGI_UMY1LQSFGEL_tTOHiZL06ASSOZxVST_i7YNP_wUJQBamm-8CpfiApvwGw9dhPAdPpgOSFOaKNZntfuoYWNkbHalMfkAFpRcEC7e9AzWoVuqCjYe8TnDZxtuulf5awfo/s1600/Ted+&+Mary+Schulz.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_Xf_u1ACcGI_UMY1LQSFGEL_tTOHiZL06ASSOZxVST_i7YNP_wUJQBamm-8CpfiApvwGw9dhPAdPpgOSFOaKNZntfuoYWNkbHalMfkAFpRcEC7e9AzWoVuqCjYe8TnDZxtuulf5awfo/s1600/Ted+&+Mary+Schulz.jpeg" /></a></div> <br /> [<b><i>Editor's note</i></b>: The following is a guest post by C. Paul Martin, BSI ("Dr. Leslie Armstrong"), who knew Ted Schulz quite well.]<br /> <br /> Theodore G. Schulz, BSI ("The Amateur Mendicant Society") passed beyond the Reichenbach on January 24, 2013. Knowing Ted was to appreciate a true champion and an active practitioner of the art of Sherlockiana and its environs.<br /> <br /> Ted was the genuine template for the formation of the optimal Baker Street Irregular, Sherlockian, Holmesian, Praedian, etc. while imparting his caring and enthusiastic personality to all his associates and acquaintances in many societies.<br /> <br /> Ted had the opportunity to give us his own story before he left us: it's a rich mix of text and videos and can be found at <b><a href="http://tedschulz.com/" target="_blank">TedSchulz.com</a></b>, which has been recently updated by Barry Brilliant (who himself <b><a href="http://bbrilliant.com/Tedschulz/LetterfromBarry.html" target="_blank">penned a letter to Ted</a></b> that summed up their friendship).<br /> <br /> Other adventures with Ted can be viewed via <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ted+schulz+sherlock" target="_blank">a number of YouTube videos</a></b> that he made, such as the one below. Yet, in knowing him these past 44 years, I believe he would also like you to know some unique facts.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7dwmX0ULHLs" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> Ted was born at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco in 1923, the same night that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was presenting a lecture on spiritualism and photography at Dreamland Auditorium just a few blocks away from the hospital. Could Doyle’s ethereal spirits have migrated to Ted upon his birth with resultant influence?<br /> <br /> Ted’s only son was named William Sherlock Schulz, a fitting testament to his devotion to his avocation and his wife Mary’s love of him and acceptance of his enthusiasm for the world of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle.<br /> <br /> The many honors bestowed upon Ted, including his Two Shilling Award and his 50 year BSI Membership Recognition only validate the conclusion of the many people who were privileged to meet him that “Ted is the nicest man I have ever met!” Ted received his investiture "The Amateur Mendicant Society" in the BSI in 1961.<br /> <br /> If you'd like to watch the memorial that Ted's local Sherlockian group held, it can be viewed <b><a href="http://bbrilliant.com/Tedschulz/TedMemorial.html">by clicking here</a></b>.<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br />

Remembering Ted Schulz, BSI

"I'm sorry councillor, but it's Ted" [VALL] [ Editor's note : The following is a guest post by C. Paul Martin, BS...

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by Francine Kitts

Review: Sherlock Holmes and the BTK Killer, Son of Sam and Unabomber

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "A very workmanlike bit of analysis" [VALL]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/content/site300/productimages/sku-000560409.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/content/site300/productimages/sku-000560409.gif" width="426" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> The somewhat unwieldy-titled book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147593226X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=147593226X&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20"><i>How Sherlock Holmes Deduced “Break The Case Clues” On The BTK Killer, The Son of Sam, Unabomber and Anthrax Cases - With Analysis on The Mad Bomber and the Unsolved L.I. Gilgo Beach Murders</i></a> (disclosure: <a href="http://cmp.ly/5">cmp.ly/5</a>) is an examination of the cases mentioned in the title, made up of actual reports made to the FBI or other agency involved in the case. The author, Tom Walker, is a retired police captain of the NYPD and a Sherlockian. As he says in his Introduction:<br /> <br /> “What follows is true, it is not fiction. However, I readily acknowledge that none of these deductive successes would have been possible without Sherlock Holmes walking behind me and occasionally whispering in my ear.”<br /> <br /> It is interesting to see the inner workings of a mind that directly applies lessons from Sherlock Holmes to detective work. Mr. Walker provides just enough detail of each crime to express the horror of the scenes, but does not delve into unnecessary gore. The “break the case clues” he arrives at unfortunately never do break a case, but they very well might have if his conclusions had been heeded by the agency in charge.<br /> <br /> The book, for the most part, maintains an academic atmosphere fitting for a ‘course of lectures,’ as Holmes himself would have liked. The exception comes in moments of Sherlock Holmes quite literally whispering in Mr. Walker’s ear, moments which are either supposed to add a touch of levity, or are a very serious Sherlockian taking the influence of Sherlock Holmes very seriously. Either way, Playing The Game is an unexpected quirk within a nonfiction setting.<br /> <br /> Of course, this is a book written by a long-time Sherlockian, for Sherlockians, but there are moments where The Game is just too pronounced for a relative newcomer like me. For example, during what is otherwise a convincing defense of Bruce Ivins, the top suspect for the Anthrax Killer case, Walker details a clandestine consultation with the BSI that anyone unfamiliar with the organization would find unintentionally campy at best. His appeal to whomever knows the identity of the Gilgo Beach murderer(s) at the end of the book to step forward at Holmes’s insistence is off-putting.<br /> <br /> Apart from that, the author is confident in his ability and clearly guides the reader through his methods in each case. He does have a little trouble narratively, the best example of which is the first half of his description of the Son of Sam case. He attempts to frame the case within what was going on in his life at the time, with the result that we get an interesting account of the power structure of NYC law enforcement and a fun game-show story, but this is ultimately a diversion that doesn't seem to contribute anything to the overall theme of the book or the analysis of the case itself. Another occasion of a case not quite fitting within the Sherlockian theme is his examination of the police response to the Mad Bomber. It is a fascinating analysis of effective (and ineffective) procedure, but it lacks the direct references to Canon and Holmes’s methodology that ties the other cases to the Great Detective.<br /> <br /> Overall, anyone interested in seeing Sherlock Holmes’s methods applied to real-life detective work would find this an enjoyable and interesting light read. It should also appeal to anyone who wants to see a new perspective on high profile cases and the inner workings of law enforcement. Mr. Walker’s language is clear and his process easy to follow. He knows what he is doing, and it would be nice to see him get some recognition for it.<br /> <br /> <b><i>How Sherlock Holmes Deduced “Break The Case Clues” On The BTK Killer, The Son of Sam, Unabomber and Anthrax Cases - With Analysis on the Mad Bomber and The Unsolved L.I. Gilgo Beach Murders</i></b> is available in paperback and ebook formats directly from the publisher,<a href="http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000560409/How-Sherlock-Holmes-Deduced-Break-The-Case-Clues-On-The-BTK-Killer-The-Son-of-Sam-Unabomber-and-Anthrax-Cases.aspx"> iUniverse</a>, or <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-sherlock-holmes-deduced-break-the-case-clues-on-the-btk-killer-the-son-of-sam-unabomber-and-anthrax-cases-tom-walker/1111725659?ean=9781475932263">Barnes and Noble</a>. It is also available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147593226X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=147593226X&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20">Amazon</a>, but if I understood the iUniverse royalty policy correctly, you’ll do better by the author if you purchase it from iUniverse or Barnes and Noble.<br /> <br /> <i>Katie writes about Sherlock Holmes in science fiction (among other things) on her <a href="http://kaelma.tumblr.com/">tumblr.</a> </i><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;">--</span>

Review: Sherlock Holmes and the BTK Killer, Son of Sam and Unabomber

"A very workmanlike bit of analysis" [VALL] The somewhat unwieldy-titled book How Sherlock Holmes Deduced “Break The Case Cl...

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A Look at the Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Renegade Press

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "Striking illustration" [ILLU]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ytirRyI2SXqWfKCqdf3Fl9L3Vfd8w4s9Bp62rScHP7BqID-D7ROcADXh0azWOGeoEXg23pmbP8HI6AoxrwgH0pIlU4bjgZXY1UmLAoWjGFgnqZbVxzljw-xTsThJQB0ggeBYodY6SLEw/s1600/holmescomic005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ytirRyI2SXqWfKCqdf3Fl9L3Vfd8w4s9Bp62rScHP7BqID-D7ROcADXh0azWOGeoEXg23pmbP8HI6AoxrwgH0pIlU4bjgZXY1UmLAoWjGFgnqZbVxzljw-xTsThJQB0ggeBYodY6SLEw/s640/holmescomic005.jpg" width="414" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> One of my friends gave me a collection of comic books they found at a used-books store: the “<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HXLURQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001HXLURQ&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20"><i>Cases of Sherlock Holmes</i></a></b>” series by Dan Day. It was run by Renegade Press from 1986 til ‘88 and then by Northstar Publishing from ‘89 til 1990. I expected these to be a set of original tales featuring the Great Detective, based solely on the cover images. Open up the first issue, and the first page looks like the image seen on the right.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The illustrations were rich in detail and very evocative of a Victorian setting. Particularly pleasing is the amount of detail given to the characters - more than even the best Sidney Paget drawings could hope to give us, as we view them in reprints. The only drawback to the early issues of the Cases of Sherlock Holmes series is that the text was in ALL CAPS. No need to shout at me while I'm reading a graphic novel.</span><br /> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> Some of you probably know about these already - for those of you who don’t, they’re worth looking for. They are, simply, the stories from the Canon put to illustration. The illustrations themselves are wonderfully detailed, and the layout is generally easy to follow. Most of the time the illustrations simply decorate the columns of text, but every now and then the reader comes across a dynamic spread - <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJvPiLOKI78-XCN6AeDcRufb7mDhjmRV7S7CW7PZWVxhHLJsGf9GnKQtQdBpVyI72LNjsPp7V2i3OraKxTwKvD9nieLtncLJCoxMHZ71UxH0p1KpC3C3PAq39hNTMHYEsgFVt8U5EC_8q/s1600/holmescomic001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJvPiLOKI78-XCN6AeDcRufb7mDhjmRV7S7CW7PZWVxhHLJsGf9GnKQtQdBpVyI72LNjsPp7V2i3OraKxTwKvD9nieLtncLJCoxMHZ71UxH0p1KpC3C3PAq39hNTMHYEsgFVt8U5EC_8q/s640/holmescomic001.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> This is also from the first issue, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, and shows the confrontation between Holmes and the thief. Granted, there is some artistic license taken with the scene, such as Holmes wrestling over a knife, but it is stunning nonetheless. <br /> <br /> While I’m on the subject of ‘artistic license,’ I should mention an aspect of these comics I find particularly entertaining: the covers. My initial supposition that these comics would be original stories was wrong, but I think I can be forgiven. The title of the story is not printed on the cover, and the illustrations tend towards pulp.<br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"></b></div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"></b><br /> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMmJElCvP7wBCrZpXjUJxok3ofpHqK06UY1h3mxbR4XHQvmrRZuRVD75I-nuf0swsJBuMirRW05j35JGG2QtDkAZCVbK1HofBmJOT_INgz1RZJavzlS5VBZSAQ0USQja0gdbILbhU_Cad/s1600/holmescomic002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMmJElCvP7wBCrZpXjUJxok3ofpHqK06UY1h3mxbR4XHQvmrRZuRVD75I-nuf0swsJBuMirRW05j35JGG2QtDkAZCVbK1HofBmJOT_INgz1RZJavzlS5VBZSAQ0USQja0gdbILbhU_Cad/s640/holmescomic002.jpg" width="427" /></a></b></div> <br /> This one isn’t too bad, as “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” does feature small statues of Napoleon, who is dead, hence the skeletal figure on the horse with the funny hat. <br /> <br /> But what story could possibly have this cover image?</div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9KTpJ5XOhNF0Cr22YEvi9P9Vz583ct7tfxPSyk_LX6oG5RVA1vLecNZtSpZIA6VVbkBbbyhp9hpgGKJOcWrVOheMkUOhbQBqWrQOgzvMHXdeJy6ejoA2qU1t0T-HiX55Sfg1ygeuNxQh/s1600/holmescomic004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9KTpJ5XOhNF0Cr22YEvi9P9Vz583ct7tfxPSyk_LX6oG5RVA1vLecNZtSpZIA6VVbkBbbyhp9hpgGKJOcWrVOheMkUOhbQBqWrQOgzvMHXdeJy6ejoA2qU1t0T-HiX55Sfg1ygeuNxQh/s640/holmescomic004.jpg" width="419" /></a></b></div> <div style="font-weight: normal;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></div> </div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"> </div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"> </b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Silver Blaze.” The story about a horse.</span></span></b></div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"> </b> <div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></div> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7820025125984102"> <div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oddly, of the 20 issues, one is an original pastiche. “The Strange Adventure of the Vourdalak” was written by Gordon Derry and is an interesting, thought-out tale that keeps the feel of the Canon while adding a little more action (and cocaine) in a neat setting - a traveling fair of gypsies, Turks and Cossacks in France. It is the only pastiche in the series.</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div> <span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These are a fun, quirky addition to my collection, and could be enjoyed by any Sherlockian who is a fan of comics or illustrated editions of the stories. They’re certainly worth keeping an eye out for at your local used books or comics store, or online.</span></span></b><br /> <i><br /></i><i>Katie writes about Sherlock Holmes in science fiction (among other things) on her <a href="http://www.kaelma.tumblr.com/">tumblr.</a></i><br /> <i><br /></i><i>When you make purchases from the links we share, it provides us with a stream of revenue to help keep this site running. 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A Look at the Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Renegade Press

"Striking illustration" [ILLU] One of my friends gave me a collection of comic books they found at a used-books store: the “...

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by Katie Magnusson

Episode 51: Who Is a Sherlockian?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzY4Wq6qyrOw8_HKzQ4xQJQQ4A7P6XAYwdWeSd1q_K7ScuOLOsKJj6xXecHooGY2mtUXl5XRqpOwSBhPumUJX-kfpf4db3B_H33dUqITuIXtyTfj4GtmCS5G33gxqiq5oFP3Gd4PzJru7N/s1600/FDS-profile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzY4Wq6qyrOw8_HKzQ4xQJQQ4A7P6XAYwdWeSd1q_K7ScuOLOsKJj6xXecHooGY2mtUXl5XRqpOwSBhPumUJX-kfpf4db3B_H33dUqITuIXtyTfj4GtmCS5G33gxqiq5oFP3Gd4PzJru7N/s640/FDS-profile.jpg" width="454" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2290373/height/90/width/600/theme/custom/autoplay/yes/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/no-cache/true/render-playlist/no/custom-color/6200a0/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe></center> <br /> We thought we'd stir up the discussions a bit and try to get to the bottom of a couple of controversies that have been roiling the world of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts (we're careful to say neither "fans" nor "devotees" at this juncture).<br /> <br /> The first item of interest that grabbed our attention in early 2013 was the so-called "Free Sherlock" movement. Summed up, this is basically an issue that is being brought to court via a case titled <b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/125645482/KLINGER-vs-CONAN-DOYLE-ESTATE-LTD">Klinger vs. Conan Doyle Estate</a></b>, in which Leslie Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange") is contesting the Conan Doyle Estate's claim that any new content that contains Sherlock Holmes must pay a royalty or license fee to the Estate. Burt and Scott parse through some of the non-technical/legal aspects of the case and discuss what's at stake.<br /> <br /> Speaking of being at stake, the other item on the docket is the debate as to what in fact constitutes a Sherlockian of good standing? That is, can one have arrived at the doorstep of 221B Baker Street via the BBC series (or Granada, or Universal, etc.) or must one have been schooled only in the printed literature and dress the part of a 1940s joiner? It's quite a debate - one that was taken up vehemently by The Baker Street Babes earlier this year, after the "Elite Devotee Redux" was published in recently resurrected  <i>Saturday Review of Literature</i>. We offer our own humble observations on the matter.<br /> <br /> For those who wish to subscribe to the publication and read all of the very interesting articles therein, you may procure a copy by sending $5 postpaid to Donald K. Pollock, 521 College Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14305. An image of the cover and inside cover can be seen below.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>The Editor's Gas-Lamp:</b><span style="text-align: left;"> We purposefully revisited the same Gas-Lamp (Vol. 3, No. 2, OS) that we shared on <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/12/episode-15-michael-whelan-wiggins-of.html">Episode 15</a>, because Edgar Smith's "Who is a Baker Street Irregular?" seemed to strike the same chord some 65 years later</span><span style="text-align: left;">.</span><br /> <br /> <b>Links:</b><br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <ul> <li>Les Klinger's <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/"><b>Free Sherlock</b></a> site</li> <li><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/books/suit-says-sherlock-belongs-to-the-ages.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&"><span id="goog_374484452"></span>The New York Times takes note of the lawsuit</a></b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/books/suit-says-sherlock-belongs-to-the-ages.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&"><span id="goog_374484453"></span></a></li> <li><b><a href="http://www.mhpbooks.com/lawyer-set-to-challenge-the-sherlock-holmes-estate/">Sherlock Holmes Estate challenged with 'copyfraud'</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.tumblr.com/post/41481263409/the-elite-devotee-or-how-the-sherlock-fandom-is-a">The Baker Street Babes take umbrage with being dismissed by Philip Shreffler</a></b></li> <li><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/sherlockians.html"><b>The BSI's statement: A World of Sherlockians</b></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0fp05fG5RnCak4rnxPs_n2AhQBPANQR_JzWNrRwT9mM-gZHY81mbmyYRcgtSusTElbB5YDFeSMWrfDUz9AXR6t9UQVjvHu9Q8kqlSlUYdJNxX0f1xcWrRF-D_6OjnH5DzUYZVbkf_AOW/s1600/SRL_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0fp05fG5RnCak4rnxPs_n2AhQBPANQR_JzWNrRwT9mM-gZHY81mbmyYRcgtSusTElbB5YDFeSMWrfDUz9AXR6t9UQVjvHu9Q8kqlSlUYdJNxX0f1xcWrRF-D_6OjnH5DzUYZVbkf_AOW/s400/SRL_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/ihearofsherlock/ihearofsherlock051.mp3"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TL5jgdrUh_nM_zlDgxql-jKOFGUVFqhoV6A2JtYklXOu4qmVDyRVbwGV6XrwXZgnG9awSwJ7td-txL1_4KGrpSf4igJLILOim4yJmX5pGTPIdMhCBYLyImSI5gs1MOMUZPAlpAgvtPdb/s1600/podcastIcon.gif" /></a></span></div> <div style="margin: 0px;">  Download this episode by right-clicking the icon and selecting "Save As..." or simply click on the file to listen, or on the nice box below. 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Episode 51: Who Is a Sherlockian?

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by Scott Monty

Using Vincent Starrett's "221B" in a Time of Crisis

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "upon these tragic events" [HOUN]</h4> <br /> All eyes have been on Boston in the last 36 hours. As with others, we extend our heartfelt sympathy for the victims, their families and loved ones. As we spent 20 years in Boston, it is particularly gut wrenching to observe the goings on from afar, powerless to do anything to help.<br /> <br /> Because we specialize in the written word, we thought that it might be helpful to reflect on a world that Vincent Starrett remembered and lived in some 70 years ago when he penned the sonnet "221B" that appeared in <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2usynIO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Profile by Gaslight</a></b></i>. That sentiment is very much still in play in 2013 as we contemplate a world that explodes.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknFsEX4EfL1jGMCJ_b_AWn7-3Yf-LZTa1n9fzXCSl1E8nyprSD6mZlFfChfe3plcPXDTH5UxkwDIK2UpBzFvynNpPcFZxfCp_tSNq7nNMEtHhmzQDN2Axd_9IDReuSLv5vQ-5dKQLiI8-/s1600/221B+-+Starrett001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknFsEX4EfL1jGMCJ_b_AWn7-3Yf-LZTa1n9fzXCSl1E8nyprSD6mZlFfChfe3plcPXDTH5UxkwDIK2UpBzFvynNpPcFZxfCp_tSNq7nNMEtHhmzQDN2Axd_9IDReuSLv5vQ-5dKQLiI8-/s640/221B+-+Starrett001.jpg" width="580" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Yes, we're fortunate to share an interest that keeps us grounded in what seemed like a more genteel and serene age. But the work of our Sherlockian forbears reminds us that every generation has its challenges - challenges that afford us the escapism that good storytelling can provide.<br /> <br /> May we remember that well.<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br />

Using Vincent Starrett's "221B" in a Time of Crisis

"upon these tragic events" [HOUN] All eyes have been on Boston in the last 36 hours. As with others, we extend our heartfelt sy...

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by Scott Monty