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Baker Street Elementary – As You Like It

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One of the joys of preparing the biweekly dispatch from Baker Street Elementary is opening the Dropbox file that contains the artwork we'll be sharing. It's always a surprise, and it puts our Canonical insights and general knowledge into overdrive. But it isn't often that we're stumped.<br />
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We're honored that IHOSE itself is a feature in the latest round, and that "Master Burt" clearly expresses his reaction to the forthcoming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2296777/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt" style="font-style: italic;">Sherlock Gnomes</a>, slated to be released on March 23 in the United States. [Reminder: we wrote about it here: "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/11/sherlock-gnomes-first-look.html">Sherlock Gnomes: A First Look</a>"] And let's just say that this type of entertainment is not everyone's cup of tea.<br />
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 See if you find as much mirth at Baker Street Elementary this week as we did...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – As You Like It

"a child has done the horrid thing" [SIGN] One of the joys of preparing the biweekly dispatch from Baker Street Elementary...

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by Scott Monty

The Adventure of the Three Anthologies

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While I was working with the publisher on the final approvals for <i><a href="http://wildsidepress.com/about-being-a-sherlockian-edited-by-christopher-redmond-paperback/">About Being a Sherlockian</a></i>, recently issued by Wildside Press [<i>See "</i><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/11/about-being-sherlockian-its-more-than.html">About Being a Sherlockian - It's More Than Just the Stories</a>"<i> - Ed.</i>], I was starting to sign up authors for a future book to be titled <b><i>Sherlock Holmes Is Like</i></b>. You'll enjoy it, I promise, when it appears, probably towards the end of 2018.<br />
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Like <i>About Being</i>, this book will be a collection of essays on a theme, written by a total of 60 Sherlockians. Why 60? Because that's how many stories there are in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and all this nonsense was started with an anthology about those stories, titled just <i><a href="http://wildsidepress.com/about-sixty-why-every-sherlock-holmes-story-is-the-best-edited-by-christopher-redmond-paperback/">About Sixty</a></i> and published in 2016 [<i>See also </i>"<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/10/about-sixty-eliminates-improbable.html">About Sixty Eliminates the Impossible</a>"<i> - Ed.</i>]. So by next year there will be three anthologies with 60 authors each. Beyond that, I'm not making any promises. Or threats.<br />
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Sixty authors to a book, but not the same 60 in each, and yet not all different ones either. Now that the authors for book three are all lined up, subject to any emergencies that may arise, I've done some calculations about <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SherlockianAnthologiesbySixty/">how many people have been involved</a> in creating these volumes:<br />
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<li>A total of 101 people wrote in the first two books: <b>19</b> had essays in <b>both</b>, 41 only in <i>About Sixty</i> and 41 only in <i>About Being</i>.</li>
<li>Of the 19 people who have already been published twice, <b>10</b> will make it a hat-trick with <i>Sherlock Holmes Is Like</i>. The other authors in <i>Is Like</i> will include <b>14</b> who were in <i>About Sixty</i> but not <i>About Being</i>, <b>3</b> who were in <i>About Being</i> but not <i>About Sixty</i>, and <b>33</b> who were not in either of them.</li>
<li>When <i>Sherlock Holmes Is Like</i> appears, there will be <b>10</b> people who have appeared in <b>all three books</b>, 26 who have been in two of the three, and 98 only in one of them.</li>
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That works out to 60 writers whose work I edited for the first time in <i>About Sixty</i>, 41 who arrived for <i>About Being a Sherlockian</i>, and 33 showing up for the first time in <i>Sherlock Holmes Is Like</i>. A total of <b>134</b> authors, then, from multiple countries, generations, genders and orientations, societies, interests, reputations and platforms.<br />
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And I'm very grateful to every one of them.<br />
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<i><b>Photo credit</b>: the author. (Some of the authors of About Sixty, gathered at The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes conference in Minneapolis, June 2016)</i><br />
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The Adventure of the Three Anthologies

"Many acquaintances, and those in the most different classes of society" [STUD] While I was working with the publisher on the...

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by Chris Redmond

CrimeReads Has Launched, and You Need to Visit

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Let's just get this out of the way: we're big fans of <a href="http://lithub.com/">Literary Hub</a> (aka LitHub). If you're not familiar with LitHub, it's a site that updates daily with all sorts of links and articles related to literary life. Their daily and weekly newsletters contain everything that serious readers and literary types could hope for, curated in one place.<br />
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So when we learned that LitHub was launching a site related to crime, mystery, and thriller genres, we were intrigued.<br />
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We first discovered their Twitter handle <a href="http://twitter.com/crimereads">@CrimeReads</a> and followed along from our own account,  <a href="http://twitter.com/ihearofsherlock">@IHearofSherlock</a>, curious as to what was brewing. Then we received an email from Otto Penzler of <a href="https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/">The Mysterious Bookshop</a> and <a href="http://mysteriouspress.com/">Mysterious Press</a>, letting us know that he was involved in this new project to create a premier literary destination. Inveterate IHOSE followers may recall Otto from <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose17">Episode 17</a> and <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose87">Episode 87</a> of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i>.<br />
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And so it was that <a href="http://crimereads.com/">CrimeReads launched their site</a> yesterday, to much fanfare. Editors Dwyer Murphy and Molly Odintz shared their vision for the site:<br />
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CrimeReads is a culture website for people who believe suspense is the essence of storytelling, questions are as important as answers, and nothing beats the thrill of a good book. It’s a single, trusted source where readers can find the best writing from the worlds of crime, mystery, and thrillers—a literary culture that’s more robust than ever, but diffuse. Like its founding website, Literary Hub, CrimeReads is an organizing principle, curating and cultivating a daily slate of high-quality writing, a digital space where readers and writers can gather and engage. With the help of its editorial partners, CrimeReads is a site readers can rely on for smart, entertaining writing about the culture they love. Each day, alongside original content and exclusive excerpts, CrimeReads is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary crime community, from publishers big and small, bookstores, non-profits, librarians, and more.</blockquote>
An impressive raison d'être. And a useful one. In our hurried, harried lives, as reading material – both digital and analog – proliferates in our lives, having a source that says "this is worth reading; that is worth sharing," is a time-saver. Curation is a low-key but essential role in any information-rich industry, and frankly, is one that librarians have occupied professionally for some time. It's gratifying to see this coming to life in a specific niche.<br />
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Some of those editorial partners include the Mystery Writers of America, Doubleday, G.P. Putnam, Penguin, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Houghton Mifflin, the Baker Street Irregulars, and <a href="http://crimereads.com/about-crimereads/">many more</a>.<br />
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And author advisors include Megan Abbott, Lee Child, Lyndsay Faye, Meg Gardiner, Alison Gaylin, Rachel Howzell Hall, Carl Hiaasen, Joe Ide, Craig Johnson, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Laura Lippman, Attica Locke, Val McDermid, Kyle Mills, Walter Mosley, Lori Rader-Day, Ruth Ware, and Daniel Woodrell.<br />
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On the site itself, there's much to explore. Top-level sections include: <b>Features</b>, <b>Culture</b>, <b>True Crime</b>, <b>Daily Thrill</b>, and <b>Genres</b>. Drilling down, here's what you can find in each section:</div>
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What do You Get When You Cross Sherlock Holmes with Jane Austen?

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Jennifer Petkus has added two equal cups of Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen, a teaspoon of P.G. Wodehouse, and even a dash of Douglas Adams to create a unique and entertaining pastiche in the Charlotte House affair series.  I interviewed the author via email to see what inspired her to create an intriguing Victorian mash-up.</div>
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<b>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: <i> </i></b>Your "A Charlotte House Affair" series blends Sherlock Holmes with the world of Jane Austen.  How and why did you blend the two worlds together?</h4>
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<b>Jennifer Petkus (JP):</b> I discovered Sherlock Holmes when I was about eight years old, so he and Watson are old friends, but I began reading Jane Austen in my fifties. I had avoided reading any Austen in high school or college, being fonder of science fiction and mysteries, but even had I read her then, I doubt I would have appreciated her.</div>
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I was so excited by Austen that I wanted to write something set in her time and with an appreciation of her language. Not surprisingly, however, there’s a whole industry of Jane Austen fan fiction with pastiches, continuations and alternate realities of her novels. Austen’s characters have been cast as detectives and Jane Austen herself has solved crimes. This is all very similar to the situation in the Sherlockian world, of course, and I realized it would be even more difficult to stand out in Austen-land.</div>
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It was an inadvertent remark while walking the dog with my husband that led to the crossover. I’ve always been fond of the phrase “my particular friend,” which I first encountered in Charles Dicken’s <i>A Christmas Carol</i>. It’s a phrase you’ll also find in Austen and other writing from the time. (To my knowledge, it only occurs once in the Canon, Mary Morstan referring to Major Sholto as a “very particular friend” of her father in <i>The Sign of Four</i>.)</div>
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I suddenly realized that Holmes is Watson’s very particular friend as well, and I appreciated the double meaning indicating Watson’s strong friendship and Holmes’s peculiar tendencies.</div>
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At the same time I was reading <i>Emma</i>, my favorite of Austen’s six novels. Emma Woodhouse is a beautiful young woman who is adored by her friends and family. She is devoted to her widowed, valetudinarian father and has decided she will never marry, probably because she worries what her removal would do to her father. Although she’s a very likable character (despite Austen’s description of her as a heroine no one will very much like), she believes that because of her station in life (her father is very rich) and a misguided belief in her own intuition, that she knows what is best for others. She acts as a matchmaker for her particular friend, Harriet Smith, the natural (illegitimate) daughter of some man who has paid for her to be educated in a private school for disadvantaged young women. (Austen’s description of Mrs. Goddard’s school is wonderful: “a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.”)</div>
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Unfortunately Emma’s matchmaking goes awry. It turns out she is no great detective in matters of the heart and constantly chooses the wrong suitor for Harriet, while also being blind to her own desires. She is, in fact, a sort of Sheer Luck Holmes, a clueless detective whose one early success leads her to believe she has a gift for uniting lovers.</div>
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So in Emma, I had a not so great detective and her particular friend, Harriet. It was not much of a leap for me to transform Emma Woodhouse into Charlotte House and Harriet Smith into Jane Woodsen.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: small;">Our Mutual Friends</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> is the second book in the </span><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"A Charlotte House Affair"</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> series</span></span></td></tr>
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<b>IHOSE: </b>Your Holmes and Watson characters (House and Woodsen) are female. What made you decide to switch their genders? What surprised you about writing the Doyle characters as female protagonists?</h4>
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<b>JP: </b>I suddenly realized that simply by making Emma into an actual detective in matters of the heart, that I had my version of Holmes and Watson. Charlotte House became a young woman who decided like Emma that she would never marry, but I had to give her a suitably romantic and tragic back-story to explain her resolve.</div>
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Charlotte is beautiful, rich and like Holmes has accumulated that specialist knowledge she requires. Like Emma, she remains close to her former governess. Mrs Fitzhugh actually lives with Charlotte and was her chaperone when Charlotte was about her investigations. As a single, young woman, Charlotte must always be above reproach.</div>
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Jane Woodsen is a young woman whose family has fallen on hard times. With her parents dead, Jane has chosen to live on her own and find work as a governess. A governess is one of the few employment options Jane has. She’s the daughter of a gentleman (her father owned land) and so would avoid work as a laborer. Her chances of an advantageous marriage are negligible as she has now dowry.</div>
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Unfortunately a governess is neither above nor below stairs. The family would treat her as a servant and the servants would not treat her as one of their own. Governesses were often very lonely figures in literature. Luckily Charlotte befriends Jane and takes her on as her protégé.</div>
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I found it surprisingly easy to make Sherlock Charlotte and John Jane, with the added advantage of an intimacy that we rarely glimpse between Holmes and Watson. For all their friendship, Holmes and Watson never call each other by their first names even though we know how devoted they are to one another. It’s really enjoyable to explore the Holmes-Watson dynamic and I drew from my female friends to create Charlotte, while I am the basis for Jane.</div>
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<b>IHOSE: </b>Your first book in the series, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Particular-Friend-Charlotte-Affair/dp/0615597467/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520316230&sr=1-1&keywords=my+particular+friend+petkus">My Particular Friend</a>,</i> was similar to a collection of Holmes short stories. Your second book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Friends-Charlotte-House-Affair/dp/1541054989/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1541054989&pd_rd_r=29FK37MYHH8S53TJ3CP5&pd_rd_w=l9fNl&pd_rd_wg=ZHZaI&psc=1&refRID=29FK37MYHH8S53TJ3CP5">Our Mutual Friends</a></i>, is a novel with several interwoven plots. Did you set out to write two different types of books or did it just shift organically?</h4>
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<b>JP:</b> It was a conscious decision to alternate. <i>My Particular Friend</i> is set in Bath, which in the late 18th and early 19th century was a marrage market, where wealthy parents would take their children to encounter a larger pool of prospective mates. So <i>My Particular Friend</i> focused on shorter stories so that I could establish Charlotte’s reputation as marriage counselor.</div>
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<i>Our Mutual Friends</i> is set in London and I decided that the stakes should be raised. The stories involve real intrigue and danger. I intentionally borrowed from <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> the device of making Charlotte absent from much of the book, focusing on Jane’s burgeoning skills as a detective. It might be that I also drew from <i>Elementary</i>’s Joan Watson in this.</div>
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I also wanted to explore the idea my characters would have to resolve multiple mysteries. In the Canon, Holmes often has multiple cases but those secondary cases rarely affect the main plot. I liked the idea of my Watson concealing her own investigation from Charlotte.</div>
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<b>JP:</b> Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves share many similarities to Holmes and Watson, of course. Bertie is forever trying to help a friend for whom the laughing love god has ceased smiling and inevitably making a mess of things until the far wiser Jeeves rescues his master. Although every Jeeves and Wooster story is about making love conquer all, Jeeves’ primary goal is to keep his master unmarried, for when the new wife arrives, the old valet departs. So my Jeeves (Cheevers) makes a perfect foil for Charlotte.</div>
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Of course my other great inspiration for <i>Our Mutual Friends</i> is Charles Dickens’ <i>Our Mutual Friend</i>. As in Dickens’ story, I tried to make the Thames, water, rebirth and reinvention central elements. Like John Harmon in <i>Our Mutual Friend</i>, my Prince Nanaboo is born from the waters of the great river.</div>
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<b>JP:</b> If I’m allowed a novel, it would be <i>The Sign of Four</i>. There is nothing to compare with that boat chase on the Thames with Tonga firing his poison arrow at his pursuers. If I am limited to the short stories, I would choose "The Six Napoleons" for that glimpse into Holmes’s vanity when he receives praise from Lestrade, although I am perhaps prejudiced by Jeremy Brett’s incredible performance in that scene.</div>
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<b>JP:</b> I will eventually write the sequel to <i>Our Mutual Friends</i>, completing what’s essentially a trilogy, but my next Holmes/Austen story will be quite different. <i>My Particular Friend</i> and <i>Our Mutual Friends</i> drew inspiration from the characters created by Doyle and Austen, but never actually included those characters by name. My next story will find Holmes solving a case arising from the events immediately after the end of Emma, involving the death of Mrs. Elton. I don’t have a working title for the story, however.</div>
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<b>JP:</b> Only that the reason I write is pure self-indulgence. I’m self-published and I really enjoy writing and designing the book. Dreaming up book covers, choosing typefaces and creating characters is the most fun. Actually promoting a book for me, however, is definitely one of the nine circles of hell, so I really appreciate this opportunity to talk about my book without pressure.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Petkus/e/B004W5KYNW" target="_blank">Jennifer Petkus</a> divides her time creating websites for the dead, writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the <i>Colorado Springs Sun</i> newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She lives in fear of getting a phone call from her dead Japanese mother. Her husband is the night editor at <i>The Denver Post</i>. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. You can find her books <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Petkus/e/B004W5KYNW" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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What do You Get When You Cross Sherlock Holmes with Jane Austen?

"one other detail was remembered by Jane" [CROO] Jennifer Petkus has added two equal cups of Sherlock Holmes and Jane Au...

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Episode 139: The Strand Magazine

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Episode 139: The Strand Magazine

"the rushing stream of life in the Strand" [ILLU] The Strand Magazine and Sherlock Holmes are inextricably linked. ...

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A Dastardly New Sherlock Holmes Tale This Spring

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When it comes to candy, some holidays are sweet. Halloween was a treat, Christmas was pure joy, and Valentines Day is when you thought "Be Mine" referred to ownership of the candies.<br />
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Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy confections again, we're quickly approaching Easter. And that means furry and fuzzy creatures, hopping and waddling their way to us. Bunnies and chicks are among the most popular, and thanks to Peeps and Company, their eponymous squishy treat owns the holiday like no other (perhaps with the exception of Cadbury and their creme egg).<br />
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But this year, rather than just the standard yellow Peeps which came to define the category, Sherlockians must keep an eye on their sundials. For if you look closely at the image above, you'll note that the yellow has given way to orange, and the Peeps are arranged neatly in a tray, five across.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — Everyone's a Critic

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When one produces some public work of note, there's virtually never an instance of said work being universally acclaimed. It's met praise and scorn, depending on the view of the critic.<br />
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From weekend sport (from which the popular phrase "Monday morning quarterback" gained popularity) to even some of the greatest works we know — such as the London premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — creative works are subject to negative reviews and skeptical audiences.<br />
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Given that Holmes had the demeanor of an artist (recall that he said he was descended from the French artist Vernet, and that "Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms." [GREE]), it's not terribly surprising that his reaction to Watson's artistry would be emotional <span style="text-align: right;">— ironic, given that the topic over which he got so emotional was the discourse of the adventures arising from his logical faculties.</span><br />
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Later, in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," published in June of 1892, Holmes remonstrates Watson: "You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.” It continues as far as "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (September 1904) when Holmes unleashes:<br />
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“I will, my dear Watson, I will. At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a text-book which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume."</blockquote>
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Baker Street Elementary — Everyone's a Critic

"the critical part of my argument" [PRIO] When one produces some public work of note, there's virtually never an insta...

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Episode 138: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes

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We of course know all about Holmes's long game, leading up to the capture of Baron Von Bork in "His Last Bow." But there's so much more information regarding his whereabouts, the doings of the government, the international forces at play, and even wine that deserves a deeper look.<br />
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<li><i><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/trenches.html">Trenches: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes</a></i></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUxjOS3g6Uc">I Love Lucy grape stomping scene</a></li>
<li>Bob's and Andy's previous appearances on IHOSE: <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose50">Episode 50</a>, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose63">Episode 6</a>3, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose76">Episode 76</a>, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose93">Episode 93</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bestofsherlock.com/conan-doyle-manuscripts.htm">Conan Doyle Manuscripts</a> on The Best of Sherlock Holmes</li>
<li>Rebecca Romney's appearance on <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99">Episode 99</a></li>
<li>This episode: <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose138">ihose.co/ihose138</a></li>
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