I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (July 1 - July 5, 2013)

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<i>"...business is mostly done of an evening. Mr. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening."</i><br />
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A weekly roundup of links across the web related to Sherlock Holmes, courtesy of Matt Laffey from <a href="http://always1895.net/">Always1895.net</a>. As usual, w<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">e welcome your comments and feedback, and if you have any material to include in the weekly roundup, please send to </span><a href="mailto:always1895@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;" target="_blank">always1895@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.se/2013/06/the-adventure-of-swedish-sherlockian.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Bostrom interview"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mattias Bostrom</span></a> was interviewed this week on <span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Street Beat</span> by <a href="https://twitter.com/DanAndriacco" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Dan Andriacco on Twitter">Dan Andriacco</a> about Mr Boström’s recently published<em> <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Från Holmes till Sherlock</span></em> ("From Holmes to Sherlock" in English). Mr Boström’s opus, though currently only available in Swedish, is already causing quite a stir in the Sherlockian world. Like Mr Andriacco, I was fortunate enough to have received an inscribed copy of what is one of the finest looking Sherlockian books published in the last few years - and going by just the end notes and bibliography (which are mostly in English), it’s overwhelmingly clear that the book I’m holding is a meticulously researched scholarly love letter to ACD and his most famous creation. Boström answers questions on how he first discovered ACD and Holmes, how he came to write <em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Från Holmes till Sherlock</span></em>, what his research practices are, if/when we can expect an English translation and the level of popularity of Sherlock Holmes in the Scandinavian countries. A fascinating interview which will leave Sherlockians wanting more: “In my book I present some previously unknown facts regarding the years when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was alive, but in the later half of the book there are big chunks of unknown facts."</div>
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<a href="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/conan-doyle-9780199674947" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Conan Doyle book on Oxford"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Oxford Press</span></a> announced an intriguing sounding ACD-centric release titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Doyle-Writing-Profession-Practice/dp/0199674949" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Pre-order ACD Book from Oxford via Amazon"><em>Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession and Practice</em></a> (2013) by <a href="http://hku-hk.academia.edu/DouglasKerr" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Douglas Kerr's CV, bio and bibliography"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Douglas Kerr</span></a>, set for release in late July 2013.<em>Conan Doyle</em> is described as: "A critical study of the writings of <span style="font-weight: 700;">Arthur Conan Doyle</span> and a cultural biography, this is a book for students of literary and cultural history, and Conan Doyle enthusiasts. It is a full account of all of his writing, and an investigation of the role of the author as he practiced it, as witness, critic, and interpreter of his times….The subject of this study is what Conan Doyle knew - the knowledge of his own culture, its institutions and values and ways of life, its beliefs and anxieties, which is created and shared by his writing. The book is organized according to a number of cultural domains - sport, medicine, science, law and order, army and empire, and the spiritual life." The author Douglas Kerr is Professor of English at the <a href="http://www.english.hku.hk/staff/kerr.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Douglas Kerr's bio at U of HK">University of Hong Kong</a> and has previously written books on<a href="http://www.amazon.com/George-Orwell-Douglas-Kerr/dp/8126913045/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Kerr's book on Orwell">George Orwell</a>, the English soldier-poet <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wilfred-Owens-Voices-Language-Community/dp/0198123701/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Kerr's book on Wilfred Owen">Wilfred Owen</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Figures-Orient-British-Writing/dp/9622099343/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Eastern Figures book by Kerr"><em>Eastern Figures</em></a>, a fascinating sounding study of Orient and Empire in British Writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. I’m a fan of much of ACD’s non-Literary Agent work, particularly his short stories from <em>The Strand</em>and other magazines collected in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Supernatural-Tales-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/0486237257/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="ACD horror stories">The Best Supernatural Tales</a></em> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uncollected-Stories-Conan-Arthur-Sir/dp/038519028X/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Uncollected Stories of ACD"><em>Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle</em></a> and look forward to this comprehensive study of Doyle <em>qua</em> author.</div>
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<a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com/episode-42-lestrade-appreciation" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Babes Ep 42: Lestrade Appreciation"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Street Babes</span></a>, who can be found at their new online home <span style="font-weight: 700;">Libsyn </span>(<a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com">bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com</a>) as well as <a href="http://audioboo.fm/channel/bakerstreetbabespodcast" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="audioboo.fm/channel/bakerstreetbabespodcast"><span style="font-weight: 700;">AudioBoo</span></a> ("still a work in progress"), released their 42nd podcast episode "<span style="font-weight: 700;">Lestrade Appreciation</span>”: "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Lestrade" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Lestrade info">Detective Inspector Lestrade</a> doesn’t get the credit he deserves, so we’re here to fix that! Join Curly, Lyndsay, Melinda, Kafers, Ardy, & Sarah as we discuss and coo about our favorite Lestrades, how he’s important to Holmes, how to pronounce his name, & who our favorite Lestrudels are. Yes, Lestrudels." To find out what on earth a ‘Lestrudel’ is, give Episode 42 a listen and join in on the Lestrade-a-thon madness!</div>
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<small>[Lestrade, still dubious regarding “the Napoleon bust business again,", looks on as Holmes acquires the final bust from the steadfastly honest Mr. Sandeford, of Reading. In a few moments Lestrade will commend Holmes for his workmanlike job in acquiring the famous black pearl of the Borgias: ""Well," said Lestrade, “I’ve seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don’t know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We’re not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there’s not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn’t be glad to shake you by the hand."" (<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/sixn.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for text of SIXN">SIXN</a>)]</small></div>
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<a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/events_srt13.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SIGN by Post-Meridian Radio Players"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Post-Meridian Radio Players</span></a> are the public face of Hub of the Universe Productions, a radio drama company out of the Boston area doing live shows before an audience in the style of old time radio. They did a production of <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em> during the Summer of 2012 - you can listen to an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iVae4wTok" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Post-Meridian Radio Players do HOUN">eight minute sample of their HOUN production here</a> - and this summer they’ll once again bring the Great Detective to the stage with an adaptation of <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/events_srt13.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SIGN play near Boston"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Sign of Four</em></a></span>! Opening night is July 11th, 2013 at 8pm at <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=204781412831383179818.00049d4b8dca9d37b724e&ll=42.39478,-71.121004&spn=0.007606,0.006845&z=16&source=embed" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="204 Elm Street, Somerville, MA - Map">Responsible Grace</a> in Somerville, MA., with six showings throughout the month of July. I’ve had a listen to their online sample of HOUN and their approach to interpreting the Canon is both faithful and humorous, making fine use of a full cast, mood-inducing music and judiciously chosen old time radio-style sound fx. </div>
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<a href="http://gabixlerreviews-bookreadersheaven.blogspot.com/2013/07/outstanding-epic-black-history-novel-by.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of Seven For a Secret"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Book Reader’s Heaven</span></a> posted the first blogoshere review of <span style="font-weight: 700;">Lyndsay Faye</span>’s <a href="http://amzn.to/1abHQmp" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Seven For a Secret"><em><b>Seven For a Secret</b></em></a>. “The complexity of this novel is what keeps readers’ attention! Just when we mystery lovers are on the scent, we are confronted with an entirely new political or criminal issue with the normal police actions taking place. Timothy is so engrossed in fulfilling his promise that he disrupts court proceedings, is involved with the murder of another Copper Star, as well as being forced to attend a political function, dressed up in clothes bought for the occasion by his brother…and then being kidnapped himself and taken, beaten, and sentenced to death by a small group of politicos!" Like I said last week, if you enjoyed Ms Faye’s <em>Gods of Gotham</em>, <a href="http://amzn.to/1abHQmp" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Buy Seven for a Secret on Amazon"><em>Seven For a Secret</em></a> will put you right back into the action and squalor of 1850s NYC,</div>
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<small>[Timothy and Val Wilde and their Copper Star friends and enemies are back for another round of intrigue, murder and mystery!]</small></div>
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<small>["Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping; and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes." Watson from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Missing_Three-Quarter" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="MISS">MISS</a>.]</small></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/07/company-resi_4.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Baker Street Blog on Klinger v ACD Estate">Baker Street Blog</a></span> posted a lengthy and thought provoking piece by contributor <span style="font-weight: 700;">James O’Leary</span> that deals with various aspects of the ongoing Klinger vs. ACD Estate case. Making sure we’re all on the same page, Mr O’Leary begins by explaining what’s at stake with an extensive quote from the <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Free Sherlock!"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Free Sherlock</span></a> (ie. Team Klinger) site: “Klinger seeks to have the Court determine that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws and that writers, filmmakers, and others are free to create new stories about Holmes, Watson, and others of their circle without paying license fees to the current owners of the remaining copyrights." Almost every Sherlockian I’ve spoken to about this case has at least a moderately strong opinion regarding what the outcome should be (though most are pro-Klinger), but there is apparently a segment of pro-Klinger stalwarts whom “have taken the Free Sherlock movement to heart. They have “taken up arms”, spiritually if not financially, with Klinger and see the seal of the <a href="http://www.conandoyleestate.co.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="ACD Estate">Conan Doyle Estate Ltd</a>. as something undesirable" - in short, they have called for a boycott of Sherlockian ‘products’ that feature the Estate seal. When asked about this boycott, Klinger responded “While I appreciate the sentiment,<span style="font-weight: 700;"> I don’t think that a boycott is fair</span>. Many licensees have been pressured into obtaining licenses, and not everyone has the freedom (that is, the time or the money) to stand up to the Estate’s bullying and threats of blocking sales. I do have a problem with flaunting “authorized” status, as in the case of <em>The House of Silk</em>" (cf. <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz/article4248100/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of House of Silk">Klinger’s review in <em>The Globe and Mail</em> of <em>House of Silk</em></a> and argument against ‘flaunting’ <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz/article4248100/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Klinger review of House of Silk">here</a>). I strongly encourage you to read <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2013/07/shunning-company-resi.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Boycott ACD Estate licensed products?">the entire piece</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/04/thrillers-roundup-reviews" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of new pastiche"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Guardian</span></a> mentioned a new Holmes pastiche: “Critic <span style="font-weight: 700;">Nick Rennison</span> is a Sherlock Holmes expert with a special interest in the copycat sleuths who sprang up in his wake. So it is no surprise to find him pastiching Conan Doyle in <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781848871793" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Carver's Quest"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Carver’s Quest</em></a></span>, the first of a projected series starring amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his runtish manservant Quint…" From the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050683-carver-s-quest" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Synopsis of Carver's Quest">Goodreads synopsis</a>: set in 1870 (which would make Holmes about 16 years old), it’s "an elaborate mystery which comes to centre on the existence (or not) of a lost text in Ancient Greek, one that may reveal the whereabouts of the treasure hoard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Philip II of Macedonia">Philip II of Macedonia</a>." (Thanks to Brenda for the tip!) </div>
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It maybe hard to believe that the whole world does not know of <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/02/imagine-that-you-can-bully-me-chas_14.html">Klinger vs. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.</a> One can read of the lawsuit in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Economist, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/the-man-whos-trying-to-free-sherlock-holmes">Bloomberg Businessweek</a></i>  and hear of it on NPR. Certainly, it must be on the lips of every Sherlockian and every Sherlockian must have an opinion on the matter. It was a topic on<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/04/episode-51-who-is-sherlockian.html"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i></a>  and Les Klinger has been interviewed by the <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-38-free-sherlock/">Baker Street Babes</a>. In brief, according to the <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/">Free Sherlock</a>: 
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<span style="color: blue;">Klinger seeks to have the Court determine that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws and that writers, filmmakers, and others are free to create new stories about Holmes, Watson, and others of their circle without paying license fees to the current owners of the remaining copyrights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Klinger says that the litigation came about because he and Laurie R. King, best-selling author of the “Mary Russell” series of mysteries that also feature Sherlock Holmes, were co-editing a new book called “In the Company of Sherlock Holmes.”  This collection of stories by major mystery/sci-fi/fantasy authors inspired by the Holmes tales, is to be published by Pegasus Books. “The Conan Doyle Estate contacted our publisher,” says Klinger, “and implied that if the Estate wasn’t paid a license fee, they’d convince the major distributors not to sell the book. Our publisher was, understandably, concerned, and told us that the book couldn’t come out unless this was resolved….</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">“This isn’t the first time the Estate has put pressure on creators,” Klinger adds. “It is the first time anyone has stood up to them. In the past, many simply couldn’t afford to fight or to wait for approval, and have given in and paid off the Estate for ‘permission.’ I’m asking the Court to put a permanent stop to this kind of bullying. Holmes and Watson belong to the world, not to some distant relatives of Arthur Conan Doyle.”</span></div>
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Some have taken the Free Sherlock movement to heart. They have “taken up arms”, spiritually if not financially, with Klinger and see the seal of the <a href="http://www.conandoyleestate.co.uk/">Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.</a> as something undesirable. This is where 221B Cellars come in to the story. Vintners and Sherlockians, 221B Cellars sent out a mailing offering their 2012 vintage A Study In Scarlet wine, which also featured the Estate seal. This struck some well-meaning FreeSherlockians as a political statement and left them disinclined to sample the Cellars wares.</div>
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Don Libey of 221B Cellars was puzzled. As he explained on the <a href="http://www.221bcellars.com/221b-cellars-blog.html">site’s blog</a> on April 27, he was unaware of controversy surrounding the Estate and, indeed, thought he was doing the right thing: </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We have always been respectful of the U.S. copyright laws and comply with the display of the seal and wording as specified by the license. We do this on the wine and on our books. We thought (and continue to believe) that copyright law requires one to meet the conditions of licenses and contracts, and we do so freely as we live in a society and nation of laws. Apparently, there is some disagreement among Sherlockians regarding that responsibility, and when and if the copyright law is changed, we will comply with the lawful changes. And, frankly, we are also respectful and appreciative of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for what he has given us over so many years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The wine is priced at $39 a bottle plus shipping. It costs us $21 a bottle, including a $1.50 licensing fee to The Doyle Estate Ltd. There   is little profit in making one barrel of wine for anyone. Of the $18 gross profit, we will donate a total of $9 (50% of profits), giving $4.50 to the University of Minnesota and $4.50 to the Napa Valley Napoleons of S.H. We hope they will use these small donations for educational or research purposes to further Sherlockian studies, perhaps focusing on youth. <br /><br />We are also donating (no cost) 2 bottles to the Baker Street Irregulars and 1 bottle to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. We hope  they will auction them off and raise a few dollars for furthering Sherlockian  studies (the wine and the shipping will cost me, personally, about $120, and that's my  money).<br /><br />The other half of the profit leftover ($9) we will reserve to partially pay for the production of one barrel next year of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, a first edition Zinfandel. Again, only 200 bottles will be made. Yes, we have $9 of <i>GROSS</i> profit (not Net Profit) on a bottle, but this doesn't even begin to cover the advertising expense (we spent $250 on the back page of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> for this  summer, and that helps the BSI and <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> even more), the $400 in printing and postage for the advertising card mailing, the $1,000 cost of a French oak barrel to age the wine in,  the label costs of $300, etc., etc., etc.  I figure if we are successful…this project is only going to cost me about $2,500 of my own money. But, hey...that's what old Sherlockians do to have fun. Some go to Switzerland and visit the falls before they themselves go over the falls; instead, we made 200 bottles of wine for what we thought was a good purpose</span>.</div>
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The question arises, should a FreeSherlockian boycott 221B Cellars? Does the $1.50 that goes to the Estate negate the $9.00 that goes to charity and $9.00 of the Cellars gross profit? If so, does that mean to be ideologically pure one must boycott all who are licensees? After all, many Holmes-related titles published in the U.S. in recent years have been licensed by the Estate, whether with an official seal on the cover or an acknowledgement in small print in the front matter. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dust-Shadow-Account-Ripper-Killings/dp/B004J8HWYQ">Lyndsay Faye’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dust and Shadow</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Secretary-Further-Adventure-Sherlock/dp/0312352042">Caleb Carr’s <i>The Italian Secretary</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-House-Silk-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/0316197017">Anthony Horowitz’s <i>The House of Silk</i> </a>, <a href="http://www.youngsherlock.com/">Andrew Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes</a> series, even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Complete/dp/0393059162">Leslie Klinger’s </a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Complete/dp/0393059162">The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes</a> </i>have an association with the Estate. As does Warner Bros. Sherlock Holmes movie series with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, CBS’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i>, and PBS’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Masterpiece Mystery!</i> when it airs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>. The pure ideologue will end up with pretty bare shelves when they are done eliminating the taint of the Doyle Estate.</div>
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I emailed Les Klinger and asked him about the issue of boycotting Estate licensees. He had this reply:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">While I appreciate the sentiment, I don’t think that a boycott is fair. Many licensees have been pressured into obtaining licenses, and not everyone has the freedom (that is, the time or the money) to stand up to the Estate’s bullying and threats of blocking sales. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I do have a problem with flaunting “authorized” status, as in the case of <i>The House of Silk</i>. I wrote about this in my review of that book for the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz/article4248100/"><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1367503880577_2676">Toronto Globe & Mail</i></a>. What makes an “authorized” product better than an unauthorized one? That is a more subtle issue, however, than the basic question of whether one <i>must</i> be authorized to sell wine. I find that position ludicrous. The Estate does <i>not</i> own a trademark in the name “221B” or “Sherlock Holmes” and will have a very difficult time establishing their case. There is no copyright infringement that I can see even possible in calling one’s wine “221B Cellars” or using the name or logo of Holmes in marketing it. There are hundreds of businesses that do so.</span></div>
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In a follow up email to me he added, “<span style="color: black;">If the owners of 221B Cellars choose to obtain a license, that is their decision; however, they should not be legally compelled to do so under a baseless threat of restraint.</span>” </div>
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<span style="color: black;">What should a FreeSherlockian do? Should they shun all those hold truck with the Estate, or perhaps have certain exceptions like a vegetarian who none the less cannot pass up veal marsala because it tastes so good? If the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. is Charles Augustus Milverton, </span>the king of all the blackmailers who would use Holmes, then are we to paint the victims of “bullying and threats” with the same brush and find them no better than the blackmailer? Who would suffer under such a boycott, the blackmailer or the victim? Or should FreeSherlockians go about their Sherlockian lives, support Les Klinger and let the courts decide the matter?</div>
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<i>James O'Leary is a frequent contributor to this site and a rabid fan of the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast.</i><br />
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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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Episode 53: For the Sake of the Trust

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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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<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>
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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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by Scott Monty

The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes Is Coming

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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 />
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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 />
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<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>
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The work on the exhibit is about half completed, and we're pleased to have some images from the construction.<br />
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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;">
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