Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (August 17 - August 23, 2013)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><a href="http://always1895.net/post/59270922314/friday-sherlock-links-compendium-august-17-august" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Always1895 Logo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtgIEDOLuPEafLCcMm1hGMsdHI7VbID1abTZZk7jFGbMrKQKOg9ZBdZ5-R0Zk52sNDwa6crZhH6w8ok8OogwmVM4JqHX1SMe896lRpgNi5N3VJlbBZDLQkfUcdfx24EvnqMF27iRtPxki/s1600/1895.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <div style="color: black; line-height: normal;"> <i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana;">But which of these is correct can only be determined by the fresh </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana;">information</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana;"> which we shall no doubt find waiting for us.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span></i></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">A weekly roundup of links from across the web related to Sherlock Holmes, courtesy of </span><a href="https://twitter.com/always1895" style="color: #003366; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;" target="_blank"><b>Matt Laffey</b></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;"> from Always1895.net. We welcome your comments and feedback, and if you have any material to include in the weekly roundup, please send to always1895 @ gmail.com.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;"><a href="http://redcircledc.org/assets/files/Spermaceti/scuttlebutt-2013-07.pdf" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press July 2013 PDF">Peter Blau</a></span>'s Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press - the main inspiration for Always1895's “Friday Sherlock Links Compendium” -  "has been published monthly on ink-on-paper, with occasional illustrations and enclosures, <span style="font-weight: 700;">for forty years</span>.” Peter Blau, BSI (“Black Peter”), in his most recent list (July 13, 2013), mentions <span style="font-weight: 700;">Norman Schatell</span>'s brilliant <a href="http://mxpublishing.tumblr.com/post/58722888997/the-lighter-side-of-sherlock-holmes-the" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Schatell's illustrations on MX"><em>The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes</em></a> (MX), the <a href="http://titanbooks.com/brands/sherlock-holmes/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Titan's Sherlock series">Titan</a> CBS <em>Elementary</em> tie-in novels, the soon-to-be-released “28-page tribute to a man who was admired by more than one generation of Sherlockians” <em>The Sage of Sante Fe: The Adventures and Public Life of <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/JBS.htm">John Bennett Shaw</a></span></em> (Oceanside: Sherlock in L.A. Press, 2013) by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Susan Rice</span> and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Vinnie Brosnan</span>, and much much more. Make sure to check out the <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.sherlocktron.com/scuttle.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Spermaceti Press Archive">Spermaceti Press Archive</a></span> of newsletters dating back to 1985; and let us hope that one day the entire run of newsletters dating back to 1971 is made available. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="Black Peter logo" src="http://media.tumblr.com/38f32da6c07abd79990aede6c9d000c2/tumblr_inline_mrte3tQbdx1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" title="" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[The above image is of </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Black_Peter" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Black Peter">Black Peter</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">, Mr Blau’s titular investiture in the BSI and logo for Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press. For those of you rusty on your nautical/whaling terminology, “</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermaceti" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Spermaceti">spermaceti</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">" is a wax that is most often found in the head cavities of the sperm whale used to make candles and oils and ""</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Scuttlebutt"><span style="font-weight: 700;">scuttlebutt</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">" is an appropriate pun, since it means gossip, and comes from the barrel (butt) of water used to provide drinking water for the crew of whalers and other ships." Learn more at </span><a href="http://www.sherlocktron.com/scuttle.htm" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="A Little about the History of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press">the archive</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2013/08/one-amazing-rose-by-another-name.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title=""Solar Pons might even be seen as the greatest fan of Sherlock Holmes who never existed, re-creating the detective more perfectly than anyone ever did, in fact or fiction.""><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock Peoria</span></a> tinged his post with just a hint of romanticism when relating the story of “perusing the Sherlock shelves tonight, I noticed a section where the dust was noticeably thicker than every other part of the library. I like a little dust in my library, a bit of a tribute to [Wilder’s] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"><em>The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</em></a>, as well as a nod to every library of arcane lore on film, where that particular tome you were looking for always requires having the dust blown off the top after you pull it down….” And what valuable though neglected treasure does Mr Keefauver refer? None-other-than the various adventures - some might call them the apex of all Sherlockian pastiches - of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Pons" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Solar Pons"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Solar Pons</span></a>!  ”Solar Pons might even be seen as the greatest fan of Sherlock Holmes who never existed, re-creating the detective more perfectly than anyone ever did, in fact or fiction.” Born from the rich and prolific pen of <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="August Derleth">August Derleth</a></span> (1909-1971) who among other accomplishments was named a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellow" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Guggenheim Fellow">Guggenheim Fellow</a> in 1938, founded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_House" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Arkham House"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Arkham House</span></a> in 1939 and was an early champion of the then obscure American horror writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="HP Lovecraft"><span style="font-weight: 700;">H. P. Lovecraft</span></a> and the now classic “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth#Arkham_House_and_the_.22Cthulhu_Mythos.22" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Cthulhu Mythos">Cthulhu Mythos</a>”. "No other writer, of whatever background or training, knew and understood his particular ‘corner of the earth’ better than August Derleth” wrote professor of History William F. Thompson in his Forward to the 1985 reissue of Derleth’s non-fiction book <em>The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles</em> (1942). Somehow between 1945 and his death in 1971 Derleth managed to write eleven Solar Pons story collections on his Arkham House imprint <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycroft_%26_Moran" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mycroft & Moran"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mycroft & Moran</span></a>, the first titled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Re:_Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="In Re: Sherlock Holmes"><em>In Re: Sherlock Holmes – The Adventures of Solar Pons</em></a> (1945) whose Introduction was written by no less a personage than uber Sherlockian <span style="font-weight: 700;">Vincent Starrett</span>. Later Solar Pons collections would contain Introductions by equally eminent writers/Sherlockians such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ellery Queen"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Ellery Queen</span></a><b>,</b> <span style="font-weight: 700;">Edgar W Smith</span><b>,</b> <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Boucher" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Anthony Boucher">Anthony Boucher</a></span><b>, </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harrison_(writer)" style="color: black; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Michael Harrison">Michael Harrison</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruber" style="color: black; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Peter Ruber">Peter Ruber</a><span style="font-weight: 700;">.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In_Re_Sherlock_Holmes.jpg" style="color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger cover"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/3333051c0637700f482c383ab48b2f19/tumblr_inline_mrz7df8Ej11qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[The first edition cover for </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Re:_Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="In Re: Sherlock Holmes"><em>In Re: Sherlock Holmes – The Adventures of Solar Pons</em></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> (1945) containing an Introduction by </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Vincent Starrett</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> on Derleth’s own Mycroft & Moran imprint published to the collectible tune of 3,604 copies.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-3-or-4-or-5-or-pipe-problem.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="A 3 or 4 or 5 pipe problem?">Doyleockian</a></span> in “A 3 or 4 or 5 pipe problem?” reminds us that “two of the most iconic elements of Holmes were provided by people other than the author,” the iconic deerstalker and the equally iconic ‘curved pipe’ or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_pipe_(tobacco)#Calabash" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Calabash">Calabash</a>. The deerstalker is derived from a reference in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boscombe_Valley_Mystery" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BOSC">BOSC</a> to a “close-fitting cloth cap” which illustrator <span style="font-weight: 700;">Sidney Paget</span> interpreted as the now classic deerstalker. Read the rest of Mr <span style="font-weight: 700;">Alistair Duncan</span>'s post to learn more about Holmes' preferences regarding tobacco pipes, none of which were the 'curved pipe' first made famous by actor <span style="font-weight: 700;">William Gillette</span>. And don’t miss Mr Duncan’s piece “<a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.com/2013/08/baron-gruner-villain-i-want-to-see.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Duncan on Gruner">The Villain I Want To See</a>" on why BBC <em>Sherlock</em> Season 3 should include Chinese pottery expert, master scrapbooker and multiple murderer <span style="font-weight: 700;">Baron Gruner</span> from “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Illustrious_Client" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="ILLU">The Adventure of the Illustrious Client</a>”. Mr Duncan even goes so far as to make a (rather controversial sounding) suggestion as to who should play the fiend: “my current idea, and I admit, it is a bit “out there”, would be to have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Doctor" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The 10th Doctor"><span style="font-weight: 700;">David Tennant</span></a> play Gruner. His ‘ladies man’ credentials are firmly established courtesy of Casanova and I think he would be an excellent Gruner.” Someone get Moffat on the line…</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/6f9f21c956014f76abae04eb40cbff68/tumblr_inline_mrz8p3p44y1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[The Baron masterfully played by </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002242/" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Anthony Valentine on IMDB">Anthony Valentine</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> in Granada’s 1991 adaptation of </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536973/" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Granada's Illustrious Client"><em>The Illustrious Client</em></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mxpublishing.co.uk/engine/shop/category/Sherlock+Holmes+Books" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="MX's Sherlock Holmes-related books"><span style="font-weight: 700;">MX Publishing</span></a> is hosting a book launch party <a href="https://papersofsherlockholmes.eventbrite.co.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Book launch party for The Papers of SH vol.1">September 26, 2013</a> in London for the release of<span style="font-weight: 700;">David Marcum</span>'s latest collection of Sherlock pastiches <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Papers-Sherlock-Holmes-Volume/dp/1780924453/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Papers of SH Vol. 2 on Amazon"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2</em></a></span> (MX, 2013) - and you can order Volume 1 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Papers-Sherlock-Holmes-Volume/dp/1780924275" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Marcum's Papers of SH Vol.1 on Amazon">here</a>. Other MX authors such as <a href="http://lukebenjamenkuhns.wordpress.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Luke Benjamin Kuhns website">Luke Kuhns</a>, Ross K Foad and Tony Reynolds will be on hand to sign their books and talk Sherlock with attendees. Then on <a href="http://theimmortals-es2.eventbrite.co.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Immortals book launch by MX">November 8, 2013</a> MX is hosting a BBC <em>Sherlock</em> and CBS <em>Elementary</em>book launch for <span style="font-weight: 700;">Matthew Elliott</span> and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Luke Kuhns</span>'s <span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Immortals-Unauthorized-Sherlock-Elementary/dp/1780924909" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Immortals on Amazon">The Immortals: An Unauthorized Guide to Sherlock and Elementary</a>,</em></span> a “companion to both the UK and US hit series, analyzing each episode (including the un-filmed pilot for <em>Elementary</em>), identifying trivia, offering criticism and considering Canonical fidelity.” For more up-to-date information about MX releases and events, check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MXPublishing" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="MX on Facebook">MX on Facebook</a>.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/f7abf44590e5cb8206b5dae4ed55d239/tumblr_inline_ms0aorl2K71qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[Cover for </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Papers-Sherlock-Holmes-Volume/dp/1780924453/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Papers of SH Vol. 2 on Amazon"><em>The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2</em></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> (MX, 2013).]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/best-mystery-thriller-novels-_n_3794524.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="11 Best Upcoming Mystery Novels of Fall 2013"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Huffington Post</span></a> (originally composed by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Nathan Rostron</span> for <a href="http://www.bookish.com/articles/must-read-books-the-best-mysteries-and-thrillers-for-fall-2013" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="11 Best Mystery/Thrillers of Fall 2013">Bookish.com</a>) article that I’m linking to is begging for me to ask the following question: What do <span style="font-weight: 700;">Stephen King</span>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Joyce Carol Oates</span>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Sue Grafton</span>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Lee Child</span>, J<span style="font-weight: 700;">ohn Grisham</span>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Michael Connely </span>and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Scott Turow</span>have in common with one of Always1895’s absolute favorite Sherlockians, historical mystery novelists and Baker Street Babes aka Ms <a href="https://twitter.com/LyndsayFaye" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="@LyndsayFaye"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Lyndsay Faye</span></a>? They are all authors of books in the “<span style="font-weight: 700;">11 Best Upcoming Mystery/Thriller Novels Of Fall 2013</span>”! That’s some serious company - and this isn’t exactly an ‘off’ year for Stephen King considering his entry, <a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/doctor-sleep-stephen-king-9781476727653/4fee7aea-5584-4672-872e-b4dfeb7d1e61" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Doctor Sleep"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Doctor Sleep</em></span></a>, is an official sequel to the 1977 horror classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(novel)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Shining"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Shining</em></span></a>. “Lyndsay Faye caught the attention of thriller aficionados with her Edgar-nominated historical novel <span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Gods of Gotham</em></span>, about down-on-his-luck Timothy Wilde, who joins the brand-new NYPD in the 1840s. In the second book in Faye’s Timothy Wilde trilogy, <em><a href="http://www.bookish.com/books/seven-for-a-secret-lyndsay-faye-9780399158384/c66a73f4-c442-4920-a6d3-e7d5af8c170a" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Seven For a Secret">Seven for a Secret</a></em>, Wilde has proved himself an able cop, and he’s horrified to learn of the powerful underground network of “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirders" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Blackbirders info at Wikipedia">blackbirders</a>" who steal free black Northerners and sell them in the South as slaves." All I can say for now is that we’re quite proud of the "booming" of Ms Faye’s name and talents throughout the Mystery/Thriller world.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/d2cd9941a9c3e52be176fde51b28c7b8/tumblr_inline_mrz39tXE2U1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[Note the giant poster for “New Yorks gudar” hanging up in the background…that’s how </span><em style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">Gods of Gotham</em><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> is translated into Swedish - and that’s some serious promotion. Booming indeed! An accommodation goes out to Mr Mattias Bostrom for taking and posting the above photo via his </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mattias221b/status/370221980592914432/photo/1" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Shot of Lyndsay's Gods of Gotham for sale in Sweden">@mattias221b</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">​ account.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/sherlock-pajama-party-watch-a-long-starting-828/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Pajama Party Watch-a-long Starting 8/28"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock DC</span></a> alerted me to the <span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock Pajama Party Watch-a-Long</span>, wherein participants 1) don their very best sartorial sleepwear, 2) tune in to <a href="http://www.weta.org/tv/uk" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="WETA UK">WETA UK</a> <span style="font-weight: 700;">Wednesday, August 28</span> at 10:30pm for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Pink" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BBC Sherlock - A Study in Pink"><em>A Study in Pink</em></a> (or synchronize their DVD players or AVI players on their computers), 3) drop-in at the <a href="http://tinychat.com/sherlockdc" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock DC chat room">Sherlock DC chat room</a> where you can type chat or video chat (remember to make sure your PJs rivals <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FTs85BS6IeYC&lpg=PA300&ots=HKl4KjrHYm&dq=blue%2C%20purple%2C%20and%20mouse%20dressing%20gown%20sherlock&pg=PA300#v=onepage&q=blue,%20purple,%20and%20mouse%20dressing%20gown%20sherlock&f=false" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Steve Doyle's Sherlock Holmes For Dummies on color of Sherlock's dressing gown in the Canon">the Master’s dressing gown</a>, be they blue, purple or mouse) and 4) comment, critique, edify and/or amuse in the Sherlock DC chat room during the episode. Though this will be Sherlock DC’s first sleepwear-themed watch-a-long, the group hosts a weekly Granada <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1984_TV_series)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada's Sherlock Holmes"><em>Sherlock Holmes</em></a> ‘tweet-a-long’ using the hash tag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GranadaHolmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="#GranadaHolmes on Twitter"><span style="font-weight: 700;">#GranadaHolmes</span></a>. If you’re unfamiliar with what a twee-a-long is, instead of using a chat room, everyone gets together <em>virtually</em> and watches the Granada Holmes episode while simultaneously tweeting about the episode. And last but certainly not least, on August 31st, 2013 WETA UK will be showing a film extremely close to my Sherlockian heart and soul, <em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Private Life of SH">The Private Life of Sherlock Homes</a> </span></em>(1970) and of course Sherlock DC is planning a tweet-a-long. I can’t wait to read the raw reactions of Sherlockian neophytes on Twitter as they watch <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827137/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Robert Stephens on IMDB"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Robert Stephens</span></a> assume his nuanced and brilliantly ambiguous role as the Great Detective. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/b49d52771e7e75c5efd5ae8da144c744/tumblr_inline_mrz92gSy121qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[Holmes (Robert Stephens) searching for his 7% Solution which we learn Watson has been diluting to a mere 5% from </span><em style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</em><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/the-younger-stamfords/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Younger Stamford host Iowa City Sherlock film night">The Younger Stamfords</a></span> via <a href="https://twitter.com/Sweeper887/status/369112999442649088" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="YS announcements from @Sweeper887">Monica Schmidt</a> (also webmistress for Peter Blau’s <a href="http://www.redcircledc.org/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Red Circle of DC">The Red Circle</a>) announced “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Sherlock_Holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</em></span></a> (1970) film screening September 23, 2013 at the <a href="http://www.icpl.org/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Iowa City Public Library">Iowa City Library</a> at 7:00 pm…the first in a series of Sherlockian film screenings/moderated discussions”  by the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/the-younger-stamfords/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Younger Stamford on Meetup.com"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Younger Stamfords</span></a>. Best of luck to the burgeoning scene of Sherlockians in Iowa City as they kickoff a moderated Sherlockian film series with what I consider to be the greatest Sherlock Holmes film in existence (not to be confused with the greatest Holmes adaptation, which is of course <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Brett</span>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1984_TV_series)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)">Granada series</a>), Billy Wilder’s 1970 classic film featuring the remarkable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephens" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Robert Stephens"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Robert Stephens</span></a> in the role of the Master Detective alongside Mycroft as played by one time Sherlock actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Christopher Lee"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Christopher Lee</span></a>.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/9e2e52d9e80aeed579cbca638959ee94/tumblr_inline_mrquy47oKP1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[Watson (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Blakely" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Colin Blakely">Colin Blakely</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">) shows off his latest Strand publication to an unimpressed Holmes: </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Watson</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">: “Here’s an advance copy of </span><em style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">Strand  Magazine</em><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">. They’ve printed “The Red-Headed League!”” </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Holmes</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">: “Very impressive…”</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Watson</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">: “Would you like to see how I treated it?” </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Holmes</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">: “</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">I can hardly wait. I’m sure I’ll find  out all sorts of fascinating things about  the case that I never knew before….</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">" (Click for PDF of full </span><a href="http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/holmes.pdf" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="PDF script of Private Life">shooting script here</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">.)]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/1/post/2013/08/alexian-gregorys-tv-interview.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Alexian Gregory's TV Interview"><span style="font-weight: 700;">John H Watson Society</span></a> announced that longtime New Jersey Sherlockian <a href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/1/post/2013/04/the-society-welcomes-alexian-a-gregory-bsi-to-charter-membership.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Al Gregory intro to JHWS"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Al Gregory</span></a>, BSI, (“The Grimpen Postmaster”) recently appeared on <a href="http://classicmovieswithronmaccloskey.hpage.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Classic Movies with Ron MacCloskey">Classic Movies with Ron MacCloskey</a> in an extensive and excellent interview about all things Sherlock Holmes. The format of MacCloskey’s <em>Classic Movies</em> program consists of a long form interview broken up occasionally by the movie of the week which the guest and interviewer then comment on and discuss. For the Al Gregory episode, a colorized version (!?) of the Rathbone/Bruce film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038259/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Woman in Green (1945)"><em>The Woman in Green</em></a> (1945) is shown and discussed making for an unique and edifying experience for viewers of all levels of Holmes expertise. Totaling 1 hour and 33 minutes, this is a video you’ll want to carve out a bit of Sherlockian-me-time for as you sit back and listen to an expert Sherlockian discuss the topic nearest and dearest to his heart and then share in a movie viewing experience. (<span style="font-weight: 700;">Note:</span> when clicking on <a href="denied:mms://media.edisonnj.org/ClassicMovies4.wmv" style="outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Will ask if it can open video player (Windows Media Player)">the link to watch the video</a> you may get an “opening an external application” warning - don’t worry the link is safe and it simply opens up a video player (eg. Windows Media Player) on your computer.)</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/01cbceb9236e9c60b66c900accfbb0ef/tumblr_inline_ms2ge31XK51qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">[Mr Al Gregory explains everything from Deerstalkers to ‘the Game’ as well as commenting on a colorized print of</span><em style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">The Woman in Green</em><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> (1945) starring </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Basil Rathbone">Basil Rathbone</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"> and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115558/" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Nigel Bruce">Nigel Bruce</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;">.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/58733540522/sherlock-holmes-playing-cards-produced-in-1989" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock playing cards from 1989"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Tea at 221B</span></a> posted scans of a set of Sherlock Holmes Playing Cards produced in 1989 by The Gemaco Playing Card Company. I’ve never seen these before, but I absolutely <em>must</em> find a set of these. Not only is the artwork well done, but the range of characters extends well beyond the usual choice of Canonical personages used for projects like this. As seen on <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/58733540522/sherlock-holmes-playing-cards-produced-in-1989" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Cick for scans of Sherlock cards at Tea at 221B">Tea at 221B</a></span>,<span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock Holmes</span> is the Ace of Hearts, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Dr John H Watson</span> is the King of Hearts (appropriately enough), <span style="font-weight: 700;">Mrs Hudson</span> is the Queen of Diamonds, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Prof. James Moriarty</span> is the King of Spades, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Col. Sebastian Moran</span> is the Jack of Spades, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Mycroft Holmes</span> is the King of Diamonds and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Inspector Lestrade</span> is the King of Clubs. After a few quick image searches, I found scans for <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes playing cards from 1989"><span style="font-weight: 700;">the entire 1989 Gemaco Sherlock Holmes playing card set</span></a> - and here’s where it gets really interesting: <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jabez Wilson</span> from REDH is the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279j01.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Jabez Wilson as The Joker">Red Joker</a>, poor little <span style="font-weight: 700;">Tonga</span>from SIGN is the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279j02.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Tonga as the Black Joker">Black Joker</a>. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Aces</span>: all four Aces are Sherlock Holmes though shown in different poses: <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279sA.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Holmes as the Ace of Spades">Ace of Spades</a> shows Holmes scowling with pipe and magnifying glass, <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279sA.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Holmes as Ace of Hearts">Ace of Hearts</a> shows Holmes playing his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Stradivarius">Strad</a>, <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279dA.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Holmes as Ace of Diamonds">Ace of Diamonds</a> has Holmes tinkering with his chemistry set and <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279cA.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Holmes as Ace of Clubs">Ace of Clubs</a> shows Holmes brandishing a pistol, presumably about to fire at the Black Joker card. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Kings</span>: all shown on Tea at 221B (though click for individual, hi-res images of each), the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279sK.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Moriarty as King of Spades">King of Spades</a> is the fiendishly misshapen Napoleon of Crime <span style="font-weight: 700;">Prof. Moriarty</span>, the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279hK.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Watson as King of Hearts">King of Hearts</a> Dr <span style="font-weight: 700;">John H. Watson</span>, the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279dK.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mycroft as King of Diamonds">King of Diamonds</a> is <span style="font-weight: 700;">Mycroft</span> and the<a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279cK.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Lestrade as King of Clubs">King of Clubs</a> is <span style="font-weight: 700;">Lestrade</span>. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Queens</span>: here’s where the cards get super awesome - who else could be <em>the</em> <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279sQ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Adler as Queen of Spades">Queen of Spades</a> other than <em>the</em> Woman <span style="font-weight: 700;">Irene Adler</span> (in drag no less), the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279hQ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mary Morstan as Queen of Hearts">Queen of Hearts</a> is of course <span style="font-weight: 700;">Mary Morstan</span>, the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279dQ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mrs Hudson as Queen of Diamonds">Queen of Diamonds</a> is the long-suffering <span style="font-weight: 700;">Mrs Hudson</span>and the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279cQ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Hattie Doran as Queen of Clubs">Queen of Clubs</a> is <span style="font-weight: 700;">Miss Hatty Doran</span> (misspelled on the card as “<em>Hattie</em> Doran”) from “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Noble_Bachelor" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="NOBL">The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</a>" - no offense to Ms Doran, but I think <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Illustrious_Client" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Kitty Winter is from ILLU">Kitty Winters</a> would have made a much better Queen of Clubs. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jacks</span>: Col. Moran is the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279sJ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Moran as Jack of Spades">Jack of Spades</a>, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jack Stapleton</span> (aka Rodger Baskerville) is the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279hJ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Jack Stapleton is Jack of Hearts">Jack of Hearts</a>, probably the coolest card in the deck is the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279dJ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Roylott as Jack of Diamonds">Jack of Diamonds</a> featuring Dr <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Dr Grimesby Roylot from SPEC">Grimesby Roylott</a></span> with a ‘<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band#Swamp_adder" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Swamp Adder">swamp adder</a>' wrapped around his head ready to strike and last but certainly not least the <a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279cJ.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Col Lysander Stark Jack of Clubs">Jack of Clubs</a>, the most haunting card in the deck, features <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Engineer's_Thumb" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Col Lysander Stark from ENGR">Col. Lysander Stark</a></span> grasping a menacing looking cleaver. A framed set of all 18 of the illustrated cards would look glorious on my wall, but for now I’ll have to settle for these scans as supplied by one <a href="http://albinas.borisevicius@vkontrole.lt/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Email">Albinas Borisevicius</a> (credited on both <a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/58733540522/sherlock-holmes-playing-cards-produced-in-1989" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock playing card scans">Tea at 221B</a> and the<a href="http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13279/d13279.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Full set of scans of Sherlock cards">.EU site</a>).</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/78d2684c84b008c56fcda27ef1dae774/tumblr_inline_mrx71fgAZZ1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[As this post goes to press, I’ll have already written the Gemaco Playing Card Company begging/pleading for a set of these 1989 Sherlock Holmes playing cards.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://midtowncomics.tumblr.com/post/58828111672/brianmichaelbendis-batman-sherlock-holmes-by" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock vs Batman from Kerry Margolin Collection"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Midtown Comics</span></a> posted this stunning illustration of Sherlock Holmes  and Batman by <a href="http://maleev.com/wp/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Maleev's website portfolio">Alex Maleev</a>, known first and foremost for his work on Marvel’s Daredevil. The original piece currently resides in the legendary Sherlockian art collection of <a href="http://www.sh-whoswho.com/index.php?page=search&criteria=member&id=531" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Jerry Margolin at Who's Who"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jerry Margolin</span></a>. At <a href="http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetail.asp?gcat=15510" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Margolin's collection at Comic Art Fans">Comic Art Fans</a> you can view 65 + extraordinary pieces from Mr Margolin’s collection, including <a href="http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=593044" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock and Spiderman">Sherlock Holmes: Spiderman</a>, <a href="http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=999276" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Snoopy">Sherlock Holmes: Snoopy</a> and a rather scandalous <a href="http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=942537" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Cat in the Hat with syringe">Cat in the Hat with 7% Solution</a>drawing. If you want to learn more about Jerry Margolin and his history of collecting various Sherlockian objects, check out <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/12/episode-16-collectors-corner-jerry.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ep 16 - Jerry Margolin on IHOSE"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Episode 16: Collector’s Corner - Jerry Margolin</span></a> of the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/1f6e689686a381c6e743e6ec41e753b8/tumblr_inline_mrv2tygpUr1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[The Caped Crusader versus the other Caped Crusader!]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Sherlockian Scion Links:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scintillation.org/sos-2014.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SOSVII info"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Scintillation of Scions VII</span></a> announced their first round of SOS VII speakers: <span style="font-weight: 700;">Scott Monty</span>, BSI ("Corporal Henry Wood"), <span style="font-weight: 700;">Brad Keefauver</span>, BSI ("Winwood Reade") and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Ashley Polasek</span> - and if this group is any indication of what the esteemed <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jacquelynn Morris</span> has in store for SOS VII, attendees should prepare for a weekend of legendary Sherlockian proportions.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://prioryscholarsnyc.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="PSNYC"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Priory Scholars of NYC</span></a> have just announced a date, <a href="https://twitter.com/PrioryNYC/status/369930810323111936" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="PSNYC - October 6, 2013"><span style="font-weight: 700;">October 6, 2013</span></a>, for their ‘Back To School’ Fall Session of the PSNYC which will take place at a brand new Manhattan venue (for us) called <a href="http://www.thechurchillny.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Churchill Pub of NYC">The Churchill Tavern</a>, replete with all the trappings one might suspect from a British-style pub plus a variety of distinct Churchillian touches like the playing of WSC speeches in the bathrooms and a gigantic portrait of the World War II English Prime Minister dominating the fireplace room (cf. photo below). I have yet to find a definitive list of connections between the Great Detective and Winston Churchill, but I do know that during World War II Churchill nicknamed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SOE"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Special Operations Executive</span></a>, the group tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance behind enemy lines, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_Irregulars#Special_Operations_Executive" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SOE nicknamed the Baker Street Irregulars"><span style="font-weight: 700;">the Baker Street Irregulars</span></a> for their presumed ability “to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone.” (<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/sign-08.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sign of Four, Chapter 8">SIGN, Ch. 8</a>)</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/6ae02ed6707bb4b068951d4c46b992df/tumblr_inline_mrz9q8wjFP1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 500px;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[A small taste of the Churchill’s sumptuous decor rumored to rival that of the Amateur Mendicant Society’s luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* To find a Sherlockian event in your area, check out the <a href="http://www.sherlockiancalendar.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlockian Calendar">SherlockianCalendar.com</a> - maintained by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Ron Fish</span> as well as Sue and Ben Vizoskie of <a href="http://3garridebs.homestead.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="3GAR of Westchester, NY">The Three Garridebs of Westchester Country, NY</a>. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (August 17 - August 23, 2013)

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Sherlock Holmes on Kindle

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang to his thin cheeks." [CROO]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1i4nvK7eXuxFZahBMzurV-ngj5P3uNUDs1Kn9Mc5WQWyxKhJl_BWvc_ObRf63T-2l5bZFsCuOkUPsfk9Mi-_vo0ns8XL7B_6CN3m5PF9OHA08uLgON9JXQYhYuDshBSU8BChaYTnETDnE/s1600/Sherlock+iPad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1i4nvK7eXuxFZahBMzurV-ngj5P3uNUDs1Kn9Mc5WQWyxKhJl_BWvc_ObRf63T-2l5bZFsCuOkUPsfk9Mi-_vo0ns8XL7B_6CN3m5PF9OHA08uLgON9JXQYhYuDshBSU8BChaYTnETDnE/s1600/Sherlock+iPad.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> We've <b><a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2010/03/large-pad-gree.html" target="_blank">previously discussed the rise of e-readers</a></b>, but in the last three years, the growth has been explosive. The Kindle, iPad and Nook are the leading e-readers, and each provides a different experience to allow users to enjoy a whole library of books in a single thin device.<br /> <br /> Some traditionalists may bemoan the rise of the e-reader, but there's good evidence that printed books are not being squeezed out any time soon - the tactile experience of reading is as important as ever. But e-readers do give us the ability to have access to an extraordinary number of books at any given time.<br /> <br /> On August 26, Amazon will release Leslie S. Klinger's cornerstone work <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EDFCWCC/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00EDFCWCC&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes</i></a></b> on Kindle. Imagine that! Walking around with an entire annotated edition of the Canon without tempting a hernia, or the threat of being crushed to death while reading in bed. We'll be particularly interested in seeing how the annotations work in e-format. If you haven't already, you can pre-order your copy and it will be delivered to you on August 26.<br /> <br /> Also just announced is the multi-platform <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCFGSNS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00DCFGSNS&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Knights</a></i></b>. Available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCFGSNS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00DCFGSNS&linkCode=as2&tag=thebakerstree-20" target="_blank">Kindle</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sherlock-holmes-victorian/id661538220?mt=11&uo=4&at=10l6WZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> and <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sherlock-holmes-ken-janssens/1115593484?ean=2940016679884" target="_blank">Nook</a>, the graphic novel written by Ken Janssens and illustrated by Matt Martin involves a brave and thick-haired Holmes with a shaggy mutton chopped Watson investigating the goings on at a haunted boarding house in 19th century London.<br /> <br /> Why, there's even a Facebook Group called <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/272618552806056/" target="_blank">Kindle Sherlock Holmes Readers</a></b> that anyone can join, whose states their is "We're interested in hearing about what Sherlockian books/stories you are reading in eBook form, and also your recommendations for what might possibly make good Sherlockian eBook reading." And of course, you can find a growing list of <b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/p/holmes-on-facebook.html" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes-related Facebook Pages and Groups</a></b> here.<br /> <br /> And if you'd care to go beyond our meager mentions of Sherlock Holmes on the Kindle, please take a look below - there are over 1,700 titles to choose from; some free, others with a modest fee. Do you have any favorites? Leave us a comment below.<br /> <br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/preetamrai/7344369506/" target="_blank">Yosomono (Flickr)</a></i><br /> <br /> <i>When you make purchases from the links we share, it provides us with a stream of revenue to help keep this site running. Thank you for your generosity.</i><br /> --<br />   <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?t=thebakerstree-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00EDFCWCC&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&npa=1&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> 

Sherlock Holmes on Kindle

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by Scott Monty

Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (August 10 - August 16, 2013)

<br /> <div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://always1895.net/post/58499706459/friday-sherlock-links-compendium-august-10-august" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Always1895 Logo" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtgIEDOLuPEafLCcMm1hGMsdHI7VbID1abTZZk7jFGbMrKQKOg9ZBdZ5-R0Zk52sNDwa6crZhH6w8ok8OogwmVM4JqHX1SMe896lRpgNi5N3VJlbBZDLQkfUcdfx24EvnqMF27iRtPxki/s1600/1895.jpg" /></span></a></div> </div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <div style="color: black; line-height: normal;"> <i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"I leave it with you. It will be a great day when you bring us the </span><b style="background-color: white;">news</b><span style="background-color: white;">. It's just the last stroke that will bring them all to their knees."</span></span></i></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- <i>The Valley of Fear</i></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last weekend I had the tremendous good fortune to attend <a data-mce-href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/2013_conference.html" href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/2013_conference.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Place"><strong>Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Place</strong></a>, a three day conference organized by the venerable <a data-mce-href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/" href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Norwegian Explorers"><strong>Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota</strong></a>, <strong><a data-mce-href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes/friends-newsletters" href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes/friends-newsletters" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Newsletter of the Friends of the SH Collections">Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections</a></strong> and the University of Minnesota. I'm saving all related #SHMN13 links plus my various reviews for posts later this week, but for now I'll say that the experience was an incredibly inspiring one, and I hope to channel some of that inspiration into <a href="http://always1895.net/">Always1895.net</a>.</span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br /> <a href="" name="more"></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/g2b4.html" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/g2b4.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="From Gillette to Brett 4 - Sep 2014"><strong>Wessex Press</strong></a>, purveyors of finest <a data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Wessex Press products">Sherlockian products</a> such as Klinger's (ed) <a data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/shrl.html" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/shrl.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="SH Reference Library"><em>Sherlock Homes Reference Library</em></a>, Dahlinger's, et al. (eds), <em><a data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/bookman.html" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/bookman.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="The Bookman">Sherlock Holmes, ACD and The Bookman</a> </em>and <strong>Bill Rabe</strong>'s <a data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/vbs.html" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/vbs.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Voices From Baker Street CD"><em>Voices From Baker Street</em></a> (2 CDs) to name just a few, announced that <strong>September 12 - 14th, 2014</strong> in Indianapolis, IN. Sherlockians should mark their calendars for <strong>From Gillette to Brett IV: Basil, Benedict and Beyond</strong>, a conference which will feature "rare Sherlockian films, vendors, and an all-star roster of distinguished speakers, presenters, and events. The conference will be held on the beautiful campus of Indiana University at the Indiana Memorial Union. We are thrilled to present exclusive, 75th Anniversary screenings of <strong>Basil Rathbone</strong>'s <em><a data-mce-href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031448/" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031448/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Rathbone's Hound of the Baskervilles">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a> </em>(1939) and <em><a data-mce-href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031022/" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031022/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on IMDB">The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</a></em> (1939) in the state-of-the-art <a data-mce-href="http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/" href="http://www.cinema.indiana.edu/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="IU Cinema">IU Cinema</a>." Read about <a data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/g2b3.html" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/g2b3.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="From Gillette to Brett 3 info"><strong>From Gillette To Brett III</strong></a> for a taste of what you can expect. I've actually never attended one of Wessex Press' tri-annual FG2B conferences, but I've heard nothing but great things ("<a data-mce-href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/2011/11/gillette-to-brett-iii-was-unforgettable.html" href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/2011/11/gillette-to-brett-iii-was-unforgettable.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Andriacco on FG2B3">Gillette to Brett III Was Unforgettable!</a>" - <strong>Dan Andriacco</strong>) and plan on being in attendance next September 2014.</span></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 data-mce-href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/g2b4.html" href="http://www.wessexpress.com/html/g2b4.html" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="FG2B4 poster"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/b12071108eb1d90e7f73a294c79ea02f/tumblr_inline_mrnukbUssf1qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/b12071108eb1d90e7f73a294c79ea02f/tumblr_inline_mrnukbUssf1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[Basil vs Benedict - two men enter, one man leaves!]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><strong><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/lklinger/status/367751381928517632" href="https://twitter.com/lklinger/status/367751381928517632" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Klinger announces Annotated SH for Kindle">Leslie S. Klinger</a></strong> appears to have <a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Cthulhu">Cthulhuian</a> powers over the Internet - and not just because this annotating fiend is currently working on <em><a data-mce-href="http://lesliesklinger.com/2013/08/things-to-come/" href="http://lesliesklinger.com/2013/08/things-to-come/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="New Annotated Lovecraft by Klinger">The New Annotated HP Lovecraft</a></em> - this week alone we found his tentacles reaching into at least three corners of the net. Known primarily for his superhuman annotation skills, the uncanny annotator announced that his <em><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Non-slipcased-ebook/dp/B00EDFCWCC/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Non-slipcased-ebook/dp/B00EDFCWCC/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="I like how it's described as a "non-slipcased e-book" - can I get a slipcased e-book?">New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volume</a> Vol. 1</em>, originally published by Norton in 2010 as part of a three volume set will be out on Kindle August 26, 2013, as well as other formats to follow; and presumably the next two volumes to follow as well. You can pre-order a copy and have it sent straight to your device or find out <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Non-slipcased-ebook/dp/B00EDFCWCC/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Non-slipcased-ebook/dp/B00EDFCWCC/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="New Annotated Amazon on Kindle">more information at Amazon</a>. When not making an <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/LindsaySHall/status/366376843370180609" href="https://twitter.com/LindsaySHall/status/366376843370180609" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Klinger speaking at SHMN13 banquet">edifying and amusing keynote address</a> at the <strong>Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Place</strong> Saturday night banquet, Klinger was being <a data-mce-href="http://www.continuum.umn.edu/2013/08/klinger-talk-holmes-new-sherlockians-and-more/" href="http://www.continuum.umn.edu/2013/08/klinger-talk-holmes-new-sherlockians-and-more/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Interview with Text">interviewed by the University of Minnesota</a> (click for video interview and text) on "<strong>Sherlock Holmes and the 'New Sherlockians</strong>'" where he discusses early Sherlockian scholarship, his relationship to the Robert Downey Jr films and BBC <em>Sherlock</em> and why he thinks both are good for the Canon and his views on the newest generation of Sherlockians; concluding in the case of the latter that the great edifice of Sherlockian culture will not be brought down in one fell swoop by Cumberbatch's cheekbones and that the future for Sherlock Holmes and the Canon is a bright one. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BvT65Oym1j8" width="500"></iframe></center> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if making the annotated Canon more accessible and predicting the heath and continuance of Sherlockian culture wasn't enough, Klinger's <strong>Free Sherlock</strong> project posted the following <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/lklinger/status/367750985763934209" href="https://twitter.com/lklinger/status/367750985763934209" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Free Sherlock update">update regarding Klinger vs the Conan Doyle Estate</a>: "ACD Estate now has until September 10, 2013  to respond to our Motion for Summary Judgment; our reply due by September 30, 2013. Court will rule by mail." Finally, don't forget his "<strong><a data-mce-href="http://lesliesklinger.com/2013/07/basic-holmesian-library/" href="http://lesliesklinger.com/2013/07/basic-holmesian-library/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Klinger Basic Holmes Library">Basic Holmes Library</a></strong>" (kind of a <a data-mce-href="http://www.diogenes-club.com/shlibrary9.htm" href="http://www.diogenes-club.com/shlibrary9.htm" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="The Shaw 100">Shaw 100</a> Klinger-style) posted last week for burgeoning Sherlockians looking to get deeper into the Writings Upon the Writing. Someone get this man a drink!</span></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 data-mce-href="http://lesliesklinger.com/" href="http://lesliesklinger.com/" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="Leslie Klinger's website"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/4f20dfc7c72c4e541f3854cd8cd73eb3/tumblr_inline_mrnvsv4lbv1qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/4f20dfc7c72c4e541f3854cd8cd73eb3/tumblr_inline_mrnvsv4lbv1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[Klinger just sitting around and not annotating and not waxing philosophical on the future of Holmes and not defending your right to write about the Master and definitely not compiling a list of essential Holmes-centric books. Clearly, all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained to Klinger's office!]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/58091482659/the-long-awaited-new-russian-sherlock-holmes" href="http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/58091482659/the-long-awaited-new-russian-sherlock-holmes" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Russian Sherlock 2013"><strong>Addicted To Sherlock</strong></a> posted the first trailer (with English subtitles) of the hotly anticipated <strong>Russian <a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2013_TV_series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2013_TV_series)" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes (2013)"><em>Sherlock Holmes</em></a></strong> (2013). </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UFY9rw4Iji8" width="500"></iframe></center> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At first glance, <strong>Igor Petrenko</strong> as Sherlock Holmes and <strong>Andrei Panin</strong> as Doctor John Watson seem to borrow rather heavily from the Robert Downey Jr. approach to the Great Detective: there's lots of gun play, 19th century fight clubs and Victorian-style dark Satanic-looking rituals. On the other hand, this 2013 Russian adaptation will clearly pay homage to the brilliant 1979-1986 Russian series <em><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_and_Dr._Watson_(film_series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_and_Dr._Watson_(film_series)" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson">The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson</a> </em>choosing to show Holmes and Watson as young men and even including a boxing match between the two using the 221B sitting room as their boxing ring. Again, judging just from this trailer, the dialogue (as subtitled into English) seems very familiar (in a good way) and the Victorian setting, though garish at times, also appears gritty enough to pass as our beloved London of the Canon where "the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses." No word yet on when the new <strong>Russian <em>Sherlock Holmes</em></strong> will officially air stateside, but at the very least it appears that we're in store for an above average set of adaptations-cum-pastiches.</span></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 data-mce-href="http://youtu.be/UFY9rw4Iji8" href="http://youtu.be/UFY9rw4Iji8" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="Russian Sherlock Holmes (2013) trailer"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/f13b59d3c7e85f927e83058cb0ee211c/tumblr_inline_mro4pcVnxd1qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/f13b59d3c7e85f927e83058cb0ee211c/tumblr_inline_mro4pcVnxd1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[Russian Holmes waking up Russian Watson from the soon-to-be aired</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2013_TV_series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2013_TV_series)" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Russian Sherlock Holmes (2013)">Russian Sherlock Holmes</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">(2013).]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/s129/sherlock/news/a503733/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-in-new-sherlock-trailer-watch.html" href="http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/s129/sherlock/news/a503733/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-in-new-sherlock-trailer-watch.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="BBC Sherlock S3 Teaser Trailer"><strong>Digital Spy</strong></a> posted the first <strong>BBC <em>Sherlock</em></strong> 'trailer' for Season 3, and though it's not wildly revealing, I still got goosebumps even though I sometimes pretend that 'feels' are "abhorrent to my cold, precise but admirably balanced mind". The Digital Spy link also includes a link to an interview with your favorite trifecta of pain <strong>Steven Moffat</strong>, <strong>Sue Vertue</strong> and <strong>Mark Gatiss</strong>, who predictably (and thankfully) reveal absolutely nothing about <em>Sherlock</em> Season 3. </span></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 data-mce-href="http://youtu.be/llGXWICGsD4" href="http://youtu.be/llGXWICGsD4" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="Click to watch the S3 'trailer' on YouTube"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/55eef0072d3167f8b386b0c7843a11de/tumblr_inline_mro5zpnZoG1qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/55eef0072d3167f8b386b0c7843a11de/tumblr_inline_mro5zpnZoG1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[We only have to wait until the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Fourteen...]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/367641668939309056" href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/367641668939309056" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Fall 2013 cover on twitter"><strong>The Baker Street Journal</strong></a>'</i>s Steve Rothman teased <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/367641668939309056" href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/367641668939309056" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="@BakerStJournal posts">@BakerStJournal</a>'s followers with a preview of the Fall 2013 cover of the BSJ:</span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <center style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> Autumn issue off to the printer today. Here's a glimpse of its glorious cover. Guess which story... <a href="http://t.co/JkO1Hty52E">pic.twitter.com/JkO1Hty52E</a></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> — Baker Street Journal (@BakerStJournal) <a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/statuses/367641668939309056">August 14, 2013</a></div> </div> </blockquote> </center> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My response (paraphrasing a certain detective): </span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <br /></div> <center> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> Fall13 <a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal">@BakerStJournal</a> cover meant 2 cause a healthy excitement among the train classes ie John Baesch & Guy Marriott <a href="http://t.co/iowuITloR4">pic.twitter.com/iowuITloR4</a><br /> — Matt Laffey (@always1895) <a href="https://twitter.com/always1895/statuses/367724651969273856">August 14, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><center> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">A </span><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/fujitsu0102/status/367641996368035840" href="https://twitter.com/fujitsu0102/status/367641996368035840" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title="@fujitsu0102">reader</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> guessed the cover was for BRUC and was correct, though a jet-lagged </span><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/mattias221b" href="https://twitter.com/mattias221b" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title="Mattias Bostrom on Twitter"><strong>Mattias Bostrom</strong></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> suggested the the cover was for "that one about the train cormorant" and </span><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/Mickey221b" href="https://twitter.com/Mickey221b" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title="Mickey Fromkin on Twitter"><strong>Mickey Fromkin</strong></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> posted my favorite answer: "Going apocryphal with "</span><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Special" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Special" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title=""The Lost Special"">The Lost Special</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">"?" </span><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/UMBookworm" href="https://twitter.com/UMBookworm" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title="Tim Johnson on Twitter"><strong>Tim Johnson</strong></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">, a very welcome addition to the Twitterverse who now has a brand new shiny Twitter account post- #SHMN13, replied to my "healthy excitement" post with:</span></div> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.265625px;"><br /></span></div> <center style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/always1895">@always1895</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal">@BakerStJournal</a> Add me to the train classes. Grandpa J worked the Northern Pacific for 47 yrs and I have a model train layout.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> — Tim Johnson (@UMBookworm) <a href="https://twitter.com/UMBookworm/statuses/367725902085378049">August 14, 2013</a></div> </blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></center> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.265625px;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px; text-align: left;"> <span style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">There's no doubt that the above cover for the Autumn 2013 issue of the BSJ is meant to cause a healthy excitement among the train/transportation classes within the Sherlockian world, namely John Baesch, BSI ("The State and Merton County Railroad"), Guy Marriott, BSI ("The Hotel du Lourvre") and Tim Johnson, among others. If you don't already, I strongly suggest </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html" href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html" style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title="Subscribe young man, subscribe!">subscribing to the BSJ</a><span style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> immediately so as not to miss out on all the Sherlockian fun!</span></div> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"><br /></span></center> </center> </div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/" href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="JHWS"><strong>John H. Watson Society</strong></a> is directing a Canonically intense scavenger hunt called <a data-mce-href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-first-annual-john-h-watson-canonical-treasure-hunt.html" href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-first-annual-john-h-watson-canonical-treasure-hunt.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="JHWS Treasure Hunt">The First Annual John H. Watson Canonical Treasure Hunt</a>. In other JHWS news, Mr <strong>Dan Andriacco</strong> announced that his article entitled "Doctor Watson, Detective?" has been accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of <a data-mce-href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-watsonian-journal.html" href="http://johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-watsonian-journal.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="The Watsonian journal"><em>The Watsonian</em></a> the scholarly journal of the JHWS: "Aspiring one day to become a journal with a small portion of the greatness of the <em>Baker Street Journal</em> or <em>The Sherlock Holmes Journal</em>, <em>The Watsonian</em> concerns itself with Traditionalist and Revisionist articles concerning John H. Watson, M.D. The editorial policy of <em>The Watsonian</em> is to have no editorial policy. The journal is open-minded and receptive to thoughtful as well as amusing articles. As always, By-Laws 1 and 2 must be honoured and good taste must be, at all times, in evidence. Initially, the journal will not be juried, rather all publication acceptance will be at the discretion of the Chair, the Director of Publications and Editor-in-Chief, and the Directors, all acting as the Editorial Board." Exciting times!</span></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 data-mce-href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-watsonian-journal.html" href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-watsonian-journal.html" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="The Watsonian"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/fd6d93a7dbe3830bee816762eb5222ca/tumblr_inline_mro4a51Uig1qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/fd6d93a7dbe3830bee816762eb5222ca/tumblr_inline_mro4a51Uig1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[</span><em style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">The Watsonian</em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">- journal of the JHWS.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20130814/ADV05/308140103/Players-Pen-Director-discusses-comedy-mystery-mixing-two" href="http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20130814/ADV05/308140103/Players-Pen-Director-discusses-comedy-mystery-mixing-two" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="The Game's Afoot play"><strong>Green Bay Press Gazette</strong></a> interviewed director Kimberly Senior who is currently putting the finishing touches on Ken Ludwig’s new Sherlockian-infused comedy whodunit "The Game’s Afoot." </span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><strong>Q.</strong> What have you learned about Gillette or Conan Doyle you didn’t know before rehearsals started?<strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><strong>A.</strong> "I am so fascinated by individuals who borrow, and sometimes improve, the work of the original....<strong>William Gillette</strong> was an actor and playwright. He was the first person to adapt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to the stage and played the iconic detective in more than 1,300 performances worldwide. Gillette is a featured character in “The Game’s Afoot”. </span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A special pre-show chat with author <strong>Henry Zecher</strong>, who wrote <em>William Gillette, America’s Sherlock Holmes</em>, is set for Aug. 28."  (Thanks to <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/raywilcockson/status/367773449730539520" href="https://twitter.com/raywilcockson/status/367773449730539520" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Ray Wilcockson post of The Game's Afoot"><strong>Ray Wilcockson</strong></a> for the tip!)</span></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;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/fc2c974cc00b1e181cd93de9cf37155a/tumblr_inline_mro4f6DxA01qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/fc2c974cc00b1e181cd93de9cf37155a/tumblr_inline_mro4f6DxA01qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[The famous</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="William Gillette">William Gillette</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">as Sherlock Holmes caricature by 'Spy' from </span><em style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">Vanity Fair</em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">(1907).]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2013/08/30th-year-reflections54-twitter.html" href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/2013/08/30th-year-reflections54-twitter.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Tim Johnson's blog"><strong>Special and Rare on a Stick</strong></a>, the blog of 'The Man With the Greatest Job in the Universe' whom regular readers will recognize as <strong>Tim Johnson</strong>, curator of <a data-mce-href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes" href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes Collection">The Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Library</a>, shares his observations as a neophyte Twitter user: "I have no idea what finally triggered my conversion. Perhaps it was an unrealized need to be part of a larger conversation (or in this case a specific conversation connected with our <a data-mce-href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/2013_conference.html" href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/2013_conference.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Homes Through Time and Place">Sherlock Holmes conference</a>)." Regardless I, along with many other Sherlockian-minded Twitter users, very much welcome Mr Johnson to the never ending 140 character dialogue as he assumes the appropriate guise of <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/UMBookworm" href="https://twitter.com/UMBookworm" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Tim Johnson on Twitter">@UMBookworm</a>.</span></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 data-mce-href="http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/90588" href="http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/90588" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="Bookplate of JBS"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/31a5e3bbd7b264f85564f2831b1cbd7f/tumblr_inline_mro6iqKGDC1qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/31a5e3bbd7b264f85564f2831b1cbd7f/tumblr_inline_mro6iqKGDC1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[Bookplate of</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/JBS.htm" href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/JBS.htm" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="JBS remembered"><strong>John Bennett Shaw</strong></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">from the Sherlock Holmes Collection.]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-43-charles-augustus-milverton-appreciation/" href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-43-charles-augustus-milverton-appreciation/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="BSB Ep 43 - Milverton"><strong>The Baker Street Babes</strong></a> in anticipation no doubt for BBC <em>Sherlock</em> Season 3 <a data-mce-href="http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/sherlock/26739/what-do-we-know-about-sherlocks-series-3-villain" href="http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/sherlock/26739/what-do-we-know-about-sherlocks-series-3-villain" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="BBC Sherlock Season 3 Milverton revealed">announcement</a> that actor <a data-mce-href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586565/" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586565/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Lars Mikkelsen"><strong>Lars Mikkelsen</strong></a> will play the role of the Master Blackmailer, released Episode 43: Charles Augustus Milverton Appreciation: "The worst man in London. The blackmailer. That guy from Jurassic Park that gets eaten by the shaky dinosaur thing. That douchebag. It’s <strong>Charles Augustus Milverton</strong> and we love to hate him.  Join Babes Curly, Lyndsay, Melinda, Ardy, Maria, Taylor, and Amy as they discuss the case, the man himself, the adaptations, and the historical figure behind Milverton."</span></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 data-mce-href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-43-charles-augustus-milverton-appreciation/" href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-43-charles-augustus-milverton-appreciation/" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="Click to hear what the Babes have to say about CAM Devil"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/815d30970580102e743ddbc506cbfd99/tumblr_inline_mro6so3cj91qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/815d30970580102e743ddbc506cbfd99/tumblr_inline_mro6so3cj91qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">["Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that's how Milverton impresses me. I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow." (</span><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Charles_Augustus_Milverton" href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Charles_Augustus_Milverton" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton">CHAS</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">)]</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Morley-Literary-Estate/287552511355101" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Morley-Literary-Estate/287552511355101" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Morley Lit Estate on FB"><strong>Christopher Morley Literary Estate</strong></a> is just one of the many reasons Sherlockians should consider using Facebook if they have yet to make the plunge, or have registered but have yet to explore the popular social networking platform. Would 'Kit' have created a Facebook profile? Let's pretend he had a FB for a moment: just imagine what his friends page would look like (Edgar Smith, Vincent Starrett, <a data-mce-href="http://hungrygerald.com/2011/06/gone-but-not-forgotten-restaurants-christ-cella/" href="http://hungrygerald.com/2011/06/gone-but-not-forgotten-restaurants-christ-cella/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Chris Cella remembered - a non-BSI portrait of him">Chris Cella</a>...though I'm sure <a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Alexander Woollcott">Alexander Woollcott</a>'s friend request would be left pending indefinitely) or his groups (<a data-mce-href="http://www.online-literature.com/morley/plum-pudding/8/" href="http://www.online-literature.com/morley/plum-pudding/8/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Creed of the Three Hours For Lunch Club">The Three Hours For Lunch Club</a>, Book-of-the-Month Club, <em>Saturday Review of Literature</em>, <a data-mce-href="http://www.bsiarchivalhistory.org/BSI_Archival_History/March_of_Time.html" href="http://www.bsiarchivalhistory.org/BSI_Archival_History/March_of_Time.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Lellenberg's The March of Time">Grillparzer Sittenpolizei Verein</a>, etc etc.) or his timeline (1934: birthday party for the Master at the Hotel Duane, 1936: 'friends' <strong>Edgar Smith</strong>, 1944: 'likes' Trilogy Dinner event, 1946: <strong>Adrian Conan Doyle</strong> 'unfriends' Morley, 1947: states there will never be another BSI dinner, 1948: comments with a ":(" on Smith's posting of a “committee-in-camera” BSI dinner, 1949: changes relationship status to BSI as 'It's complicated', etc.). Oh what could have been....</span></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 data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Morley-Literary-Estate/287552511355101" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Morley-Literary-Estate/287552511355101" style="color: #444444; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank" title="Morley Lit Estate on FB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" data-mce-src="http://media.tumblr.com/a590a2d267fbb9fc08a3f83b9092d5da/tumblr_inline_mrnu74GCP81qz4rgp.jpg" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a590a2d267fbb9fc08a3f83b9092d5da/tumblr_inline_mrnu74GCP81qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 17.265625px; text-align: start;">[Morley's latest profile picture on Faceook.]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/club.html" href="http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/club.html" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Bartitsu Club of NYC"><strong>Bartitsu Club of NYC</strong></a> announced that their next training session will be this Sunday, August 18 at 11:30 am at The Society for Martial Arts Instruction (SFMAI) - <a data-mce-href="www.facebook.com/events/307289686081084" href="http://www.tumblr.com/edit/www.facebook.com/events/307289686081084" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Register for training on FB">RSVP on their Facebook</a>. "A reporter and photographer from The Epoch Times will attend. They plan to run a feature story about Bartitsu. The Epoch Times is distributed in 35 countries in 21 languages, so it's a good opportunity to promote Bartitsu to an international audience." There's also a <a data-mce-href="http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/images/NewJerseyBartitsuDonnellyAug2013.jpg" href="http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/images/NewJerseyBartitsuDonnellyAug2013.jpg" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="August 25th seminar">seminar</a> on August 25th in New Jersey.</span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <h3> <strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sherlock Scion Links:</span></strong></h3> </div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <strong style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">The Epilogues of Sherlock Holmes</strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> are having a meeting on August 31, 2013 and I strongly recommend that any Sherlockian, whether neophyte or experienced, who is within striking distance of Chatham, NJ think about attending. Meetings cost an extremely reasonable $10 ("I am a poor man." -</span><a data-mce-href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/prio.htm" href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/prio.htm" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" target="_blank" title="PRIO text">PRIO</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">). </span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/events.htm" href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/events.htm" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="ASH Wednesday info"><strong>ASH Wednesdays</strong></a> based out of NYC and open to all is the monthly, informal meeting of the storied <strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/" href="http://www.ash-nyc.com/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="ASH NYC">Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a></strong>, the oldest women's Sherlockian society in the world - though of course open to the males of the Sherlockian species as well. I've been attending ASH Wednesdays for a while now and if you're looking for a gentle first time Sherlockian meeting experience, you absolutely cannot go wrong with ASH. Meetings usually consist of 15 to 25 male and female, young and old, neophyte and experienced Sherlockians hanging out in the relaxed environs of a NYC Irish Pub. Discussion spans the Sherlockian world but often veers well outside Holmes-centric topics and ranges over literature, Star Trek (I'm looking at you <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/NickMartorelli" href="https://twitter.com/NickMartorelli" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="@nickmartorelli">Nick</a>!), movies, cooking recipes, baseball (<a data-mce-href="http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/schedule/sortable.jsp?c_id=chc" href="http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/schedule/sortable.jsp?c_id=chc" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="Cubs schedule 2013: 52-68...so far!">Go Cubs</a>!), suggestions for surviving any number of apocalyptic scenarios, cats, cats, cats and anything and everything else that strikes our fancy. The next gathering is September 4, 2013.</span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: #444444; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* To find a Sherlockian event in your area, check out and bookmark one of the most useful Sherlock Holmes resources on the Internet: the <a data-mce-href="http://www.sherlockiancalendar.com/" href="http://www.sherlockiancalendar.com/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="SherlockianCalendar.com"><strong>SherlockianCalendar.com</strong></a> - maintained by the indomitable <strong>Ron Fish</strong> as well as <strong>Sue and Ben Vizoskie</strong> of <a data-mce-href="http://3garridebs.homestead.com/" href="http://3garridebs.homestead.com/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank" title="3GAR of Westchester, NY">The Three Garridebs of Westchester Country, NY</a>. </span></div>

Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (August 10 - August 16, 2013)

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