Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (July 6 - July 12, 2013)

<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #262626; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://always1895.net/post/55220812101/friday-sherlock-links-compendium-july-6-july-12" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Always1895 Logo" border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtgIEDOLuPEafLCcMm1hGMsdHI7VbID1abTZZk7jFGbMrKQKOg9ZBdZ5-R0Zk52sNDwa6crZhH6w8ok8OogwmVM4JqHX1SMe896lRpgNi5N3VJlbBZDLQkfUcdfx24EvnqMF27iRtPxki/s200/1895.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 4px;" title="Always1895 Logo" width="200" /></span></a><br /><i style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">""Friday!" he cried."</span></i><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- The Adventure of the Illustrious Client</span></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px;">A weekly roundup of links across the web related to Sherlock Holmes, courtesy of Matt Laffey from </span><a href="http://always1895.net/" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; line-height: 16.890625px;">Always1895.net</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px;">. W</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px;">e welcome your comments and feedback, and if you have any material to include in the weekly roundup, please send to </span><a href="mailto:always1895@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; line-height: 16.890625px;" target="_blank">always1895@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 16.890625px;">.</span></span><br /><div id="wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 500px;"><div id="head" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://inspectorlestradesblotterpage.blogspot.com/2013/07/collecting-sherlock-holmes-my-mensa-talk.html" style="clear: right; color: #999999; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for more pictures of Hobbs"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/5b543a7dd59dfc73aa5009c2325ea2d4/tumblr_inline_mpk8vjggV01qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">[Don Hobbs addressing 75 <br />brainiacs on the finer points of <br />collecting Sherlockiana.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="post text" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://inspectorlestradesblotterpage.blogspot.com/2013/07/collecting-sherlock-holmes-my-mensa-talk.html" style="background-color: white; color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Don Hobbs' MENSA talk on collecting Sherlock"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Inspector Lestrade’s Blotter Page</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">’s </span><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/games-afoot-searching-sherlock-holmes-books-every-language" style="background-color: white; color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Interview with Don Hobbs regarding collecting Sherlock Holmes">Don Hobbs</a><span style="background-color: white;"> gave a special talk on Collecting Sherlock Holmes at a recent </span><a href="http://www.us.mensa.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mensa Club USA">Mensa</a><span style="background-color: white;"> meeting in Fort Worth, TX to about 75 attendees, many of which weren't Sherlockians but none-the-less: “The attendees could not have been more responsive. They laughed in all of the right places, asked intelligent (pun intended) questions and showed genuine interest. My allotted time of seventy-five minutes flew by so fast that I actually skipped over a few of the paragraphs of my talk. Afterwards, one of the attendees told me that it was the best and most interesting talk he had heard so far at this meeting. Considering that some of the talks included “Has the Onion Outlived its Usefulness?"; “Spiritual Exercise Light"; and “Friendly Delicate Bridge"  I am not sure if this was a compliment or an insult. Another one said that when a room full of Mensa Member all clap, that is a great accomplishment. I was pleased." And though I would like to know if the onion has in fact outlived it’s usefulness, I would very much like to read/hear Mr Hobbs’ entire talk - let’s hope he decides to post the contents of ‘Collecting Sherlock Holmes’ sometime soon. In the meantime, enjoy this </span><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/games-afoot-searching-sherlock-holmes-books-every-language" style="background-color: white; color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Donn Hobbs interview">interview with Don Hobbs</a><span style="background-color: white;"> on collecting Sherlock Holmes translations. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-weight: 700;">Q</span><span style="background-color: white;">: How did you first get started collecting? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-weight: 700;">Hobbs</span><span style="background-color: white;">: “I have always been a collector. I believe one either has the collector gene or not. I am the former."</span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /></span><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://romantic-chamber-of-the-heart.tumblr.com/post/54426349597/astaritus-2013" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Russian Sherlock Holmes 2013">Romantic Chamber of the Heart</a></span> re-posted (originally in Russian) a set of photos and some information about the upcoming <em>Sherlock Holmes</em> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2013_TV_series)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes (2013, Russian)">Russian 2013 TV Series</a>): “This series will return the Russian audience to 221b Baker Street, where we meet Holmes and Watson. Their roles will be played by <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1214581/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Igor Petrenko on IMDB">Igor Petrenko</a></span> and <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659521/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Andrey Panin on IMDB">Andrey Panin</a></span>…The writers of the show decided to add to the outline of the story their amusing details. For example, Holmes doesn’t smoke a pipe, Watson just came up with it for his notebook. Professor Moriarty (<span style="font-weight: 700;">Alexei Gorbunov</span>) and charming Irene Adler (<span style="font-weight: 700;">Lyanka Gryu</span>) confront the genius investigator." For those surprised that a brand new adaptation of the Great Detective is being produced for a Russian audience, I suggest familiarizing yourself with the original (and totally brilliant) Russian Sherlock Holmes series <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_and_Dr._Watson" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Russian Sherlock (original)"><em>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson</em></a> (1979-1986) featuring two of the best Holmes and Watson team-ups of all time: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Livanov" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Vasily Livanov"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Vasily Livanov</span></a> and <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Solomin" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Vitaly Solomin">Vitaly Solomin</a></span>; Mr Livanov’s interpretation of Holmes was so admired that in 2006 he “became an honorary member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_British_Empire" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Order of the British Empire">Order of British Empire</a> for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes." For an excellent introduction to the original Russian series as well as a detailed <a href="http://www.bakerstreetdozen.com/russguide.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Original Russian Sherlock episode guide">episode guide</a>, make sure to read through the Russian Sherlock entry at <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.bakerstreetdozen.com/russianholmes.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin: The Russian Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson">Baker Street Dozen</a></span>. If the 2013 Russian Holmes adaptation is any where close to being as good as the original Russian Holmes, then we’re in for a treat indeed!</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://romantic-chamber-of-the-heart.tumblr.com/post/54426349597/astaritus-2013" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="Click for series of 2013 Russian Sherlock stills"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/cd91cd400a678d5336d42edb2686b9ff/tumblr_inline_mpk7wfM9GV1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[The Russian Sherlock Holmeses and Dr Watsons: on the left: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1214581/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Igor Petrenko on IMDB">Igor Petrenko</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659521/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Andrey Panin on IMDB">Andrey Panin</a> (2013); on the right: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Livanov" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Vasily Livanov">Vasily Livanov</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Solomin" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Vitaly Solomin">Vitaly Solomin</a> (1979).]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2013/07/unleash-babes-of-baker-street.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BSB Ep 42 - Lestrade Appreciation">Sherlock. Peoria.</a></span> shares his sincere delight in this review of the latest <span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Street Babes </span>podcast, <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-42-lestrade-appreciation/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ep 42 - Lestrade Appreciation">Episode 42 - Lestrade Appreciation</a>. "There are great little stories on actors who played Lestrade, the evolution of prostitutes in Ripper movies, the historical perspective on the Scotland Yard inspector, and “an audio description of a painting of a statue." For those who think the Babes are overly fond of BBC <em>Sherlock</em>, I would note that they make it fifty minutes into the episode before that particular topic even comes up. But they quickly get back to the Canon and Paget drawings of Lestrade and their contribution to the characters." For a full transcript of the Babes’ 42nd episode, <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/transcript-of-episode-42-lestrade-appreciation/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Transcript of Ep 42">click here</a>.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://inimitabledreamer.deviantart.com/art/Believe-in-Sherlock-Poster-Lestrade-288565049" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Lestrade being lazy"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/d519d198bbf5695f58bc249c5af4a4cd/tumblr_inline_mpnxc94jTu1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></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="background-color: white; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">["…the matter is being actively investigated, Mr. Lestrade, one of the very smartest of our detective officers, being in charge of the case." (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Cardboard_Box" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="CARD">CARD</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">) Image by </span><a href="http://inimitabledreamer.deviantart.com/art/Believe-in-Sherlock-Poster-Lestrade-288565049" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;" target="_blank" title="inimitabledreamer page">inimitabledreamer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">.]</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/frankenstein-16-113/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock DC to screen Frankenstein"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock DC</span></a> announced that "<span style="font-weight: 700;">Danny Boyle</span>’s <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(2011_play)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Frankenstein (play, 2011)"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Frankenstein</em></a></span> starring <span style="font-weight: 700;">Benedict Cumberbatch</span>(BBC <em>Sherlock</em>) and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Jonny Lee Miller</span> (<em>Elementary</em>) will be screening Monday January 6, 2014 and Monday January 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm at <a href="http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=391&source=l" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Shakespeare Theatre Company">Shakespeare Theatre Company</a> in Washington, DC." Just what exactly does it mean that they are ‘screening a play’? <a href="http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-us" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="About NTL series"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The National Theatre Live</span></a> project is a four year old program consisting of HD broadcasts of National Theatre plays projected onto cinema screens around the world. The presentations were originally performed live in London and filmed in high definition, and subsequently edited/produced for presentation exclusively by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. To learn more about NTL visit <a href="http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-us" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="National Theatre in the USA">NationalTheatre.org</a>. Tickets for the Sherlock DC sponsored screening of <a href="http://youtu.be/aY85IzWexWo" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Frankenstein trailer"><em>Frankenstein</em></a> go on sale <span style="font-weight: 700;">Monday July 29</span>, and there are planned Sherlockian DC meet-ups (details TBD) after both showings. Email them at contact@sherlockdc.com to RSVP and offer any meet-up logistics input. For readers unfamiliar with the original Boyle play, the roles of Dr Frankenstein and his Monster were played by <em>the</em> two contemporary actors who are each currently portraying the Great Detective in their respective Sherlock series’. <em>Frankenstein</em>’s world premier was on February 5, 2011, prior to casting for <em>Elementary,</em> leading to this bizarre coincidence, made even stranger by the fact that either role is interchangeable, meaning the two Sherlockian heartthrobs take turns playing either the doomed Doctor or the ill-fated Monster with each other. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/frankenstein-16-113/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for more Frankenstein screening info in DC"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/1bfe8816791e1a1e8634002e4e8b272b/tumblr_inline_mpneppirMZ1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[Visit <span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock DC</span> on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/sherlock_dc" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="@sherlock_dc">@Sherlock_DC</a> and at their blog <a href="http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock DC blog">SherlockDC</a> for updated info about the screening as well as other Washington DC-area Sherlockian activities and events.]</span></small><br /><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thenorwoodbuilder.tumblr.com/post/54939209642/the-stage-lost-a-fine-actor-sherlock-holmes" style="clear: left; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Norwood Builder's lengthy investigation of Holmes' various canonical disguises"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/4fab2b6534c23b0ef5e7bcb7e68f26de/tumblr_inline_mpp1cc5zMY1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[<a href="http://www.sshf.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Collier's" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Collier's cover for DYIN"><em>Collier’s</em></a> cover for <br />"<a href="http://ignisart.com/camdenhouse/canon/dyin.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="DYIN text">The Adventure of the Dying Detective</a>" <br />appearance featuring Holmes in a <br />‘sick disguise’.]</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://thenorwoodbuilder.tumblr.com/post/54939209642/the-stage-lost-a-fine-actor-sherlock-holmes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes disguises">The Norwood Builder</a></span> often responds to reader’s questions with lengthy and knowledgeable replies on various Canonical and supra-Canonical subjects. Recently a reader asked about the various disguises employed by Holmes over the years, and the Norwood Builder rose to the occasion with an extremely thorough response: “firstly, I’ll have a look to all the main canonical episodes in which Holmes impersonated this or that other figure, and then I’ll close with some general considerations about Sherlock Holmes’ acting abilities." The following disguise categories are used to organize his response: 1) Clergymen, 2) Manual labourers, 3) Women, 4) Old and/or sick characters, 5) Seamen and 6) Foreigners. One of the great pleasures of the Canon is imagining Holmes donning one of his numerous disguises, his mastery and virtuosity causing Watson to remark in "<a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SCAN text">A Scandal In Bohemia</a>" “The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://altamarkings.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-observation-of-trifles-fine-detail.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title=""The Observation of Trifles" - Fine Detail in Granada's Series with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes."><span style="font-weight: 700;">Markings</span></a> run by <a href="https://twitter.com/raywilcockson" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ray Wilcockson on Twitter"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Ray Wilcockson</span></a> recently took a look at the Holmes adaptation that many Sherlockians, even in the age of Cumberbatch, consider to be the apex of Sherlock on screen: “I know I am not alone in often spotting some little treat I hadn’t noticed before in a repeat viewing of one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1984_TV_series)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada's Sherlock Holmes">Granada’s classic episodes of Sherlock Holmes</a>. They are truly evergreen. The artistry of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Brett" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Jeremy Brett"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Brett</span></a> has much to do with this, but honours must surely be shared with some inspired screenplays and production values. Together they created what are at times masterpieces. As Holmes observes in the Epilogue to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Fear" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="VALL"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Valley of Fear</em></span></a>: ‘<span style="font-weight: 700;">You can tell an old master by the sweep of his brush.</span>’ The closer you look at this series the more authentic and well-executed it appears. With this post I am opening a place to collect some of this fine detail. I’ll add to it as and when, advertising new entries." I look forward to reading Mr Wilcockson’s observations regarding Jeremy Brett’s genius in his portrayal of the Great Detective.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://rose-of-pollux.tumblr.com/post/34028088667" style="clear: right; color: black; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for animated JB from BOSC"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a70dcfd8f00926136e01c6d96356fadf/tumblr_inline_mpstjdDE671qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[Click <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536969/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Animated JB">image</a> for an animated GIF of JB in action in the 1991 Granada adaptation of <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536969/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada BOSC">The Boscombe Valley Mystery</a>; </em>and here for more BOSC animated GIFs.]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><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="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/seminars.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Fighting arts of North America">Bartitsu Club of NYC</a></span> is co-hosting their ‘Third Annual Antagonistics Weekend’, July 27-28 - Join the <span style="font-weight: 700;">Bartitsu Club of NYC</span> as we learn about 19th century fighting arts in North America in both the cities and the frontier. Topics include the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_knife" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Bowie Knife"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Bowie knife</span></a> and how it got its name, and the fierce Irish faction fighting of the mid-19th century - the infamous “Gangs of New York." 19th-century civilian combatives, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Bartitsu"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Bartitsu</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pugilism" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="pugilism"><span style="font-weight: 700;">pugilism</span></a>, will also be explored. The seminars will be taught by historic combat expert <a href="http://youtu.be/Ud6S54zzlF0" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Video of Prof Donnelly showing-off some Bartitsu moves"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mark P. Donnelly</span></a>, Professore di Armes. Attend either or both days as well as our Saturday Evening Social in historic Lower Manhattan. No martial arts experience required. A study in self-defense and in history! More info at <a href="http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/seminars.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Bartitsu in Lower Manhattan">NYC Steampunk</a>. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/edit/www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/seminars.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for fullsized flier and more info"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/d4422e561dd66c3372afab1ab3382261/tumblr_inline_mpsuammnza1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[You can RSVP on their Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/149126491949059/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click to RSVP">here</a>.]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://youtu.be/5le9fc0v2xg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="'Let It Rock' Video Tribute to Moriarty">Video Tribute to Moriarty</a></span> ‘Let It Rock’ was brought to my attention via <span style="font-weight: 700;">Brad Keefauver</span>’s ‘<a href="http://sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2013/07/jim-moriarty-and-living-in-future.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Peoria on loving the current world of Sherlockiana">Jim Moriarty & Living in the Future</a>’, a post that not only celebrates the genre of fan ‘video tributes’, but also argues the point that we live in the best possible of all Sherlockian worlds: "Well, here’s the even cooler thing about this day of Sherlockiana we live in. If you get out on YouTube and start browsing, eventually you’re sure to find something that you do agree with…Our world has gotten that expansive. And I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time." Fan video tributes - essentially, edited clips from a TV show set to music - can be an acquired taste, but every now and then a truly remarkable one appears on the scene. ‘<a href="http://youtu.be/5le9fc0v2xg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="'Let It Rock' Moriarty tribute">Let It Rock</a>’ may not be your style, but I’m willing to bet there’s at least one fan video out there that would float your <em>Aurora</em>.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/5le9fc0v2xg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click to watch the Moriarty tribute video"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/9c5c8f8caf7659865607b6a408c1f843/tumblr_inline_mpkb2epjOi1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[Moriarty and Holmes relishing the last moments of their final dance.]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.com/2013/07/le-figaro-pre-translatededited_4.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Duncan interview">Doyleockian</a></span> posted a translated version of his recent interview for French paper <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/article/serie/76188/un-sherlock-holmes-plus-vrai-que-nature.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Le Figaro interview"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Le Figaro</em></a></span>: What do you think of Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of Sherlock? <span style="font-weight: 700;">Alistair Duncan</span>: “Every actor brings something different to the role of Sherlock Holmes and Cumberbatch is no exception. Although his Holmes is more abrupt than the Holmes of the books it is, perhaps, a more apt portrayal for the setting than the original Holmes would be. I think for a contemporary Sherlock he is perfect." Read the entire translated interview <a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.com/2013/07/le-figaro-pre-translatededited_4.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Duncan interview">here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://betterholmesandgardens.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-meaning-of-this-extraordinary.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of Granada TWIS"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Better Holmes & Gardens</span></a> thoroughly reviewed Granada’s <span style="font-weight: 700;"><em style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0685624/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada's TWIS">The Man With the Twisted Lip</a></em></span>: “in the original short story, after a few hours of sleep at the St. Clair residence, Watson (and therefore, the reader) is awoken by Holmes’s shout of revelation, to find the Detective still smoking and in much the same contemplative position as he was before the Doctor drifted off. Holmes has solved the case, but the readers do not get to witness the actual epiphany. Granada’s adaptation remedies this omission by having the audience witness Sherlock Holmes while in the midst of his method. Immersed in the golden light of a slowly rising sun and subtle clouds of tobacco smoke, the Detective sits in a meditative state." </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/images/twis-08.jpg" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for the original illustration"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/0e7c599f4892177633de4b847e8ed4d1/tumblr_inline_mpnt5snac21qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[<span style="font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Brett</span> portraying one of Paget’s greatest illustrations from "<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/twis.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="TWIS text with Paget illustrations">The Man With the Twisted Lip</a>" - click image for the original.]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/2013/07/sherlock-holmes-advertiser.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes, Advertiser">Dan Andriacco</a></span> continues his musings on Holmes and the Press, this time reflecting on the surprisingly few times Holmes actually placed advertisements: “Sherlock Holmes doesn’t place advertisements in newspapers as often as you might think — and certainly not nearly as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Nero Wolfe"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Nero Wolfe</span></a>. I count only five times in which he took out an advert, from key actions in <a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/1-stud.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="STUD text"><em>A Study in Scarlet</em></a> and <a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/2-sign.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SIGN text"><em>The Sign of Four</em></a> to an ad that finds no takers in "<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/nava.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="NAVA text">The Naval Treaty</a>," to a passing mention in "<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/lady.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="LADY text">The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax</a>."  Most memorable for me is the scene in “<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/blue.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="BLUE text">The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</a>…” Another excellent post from the author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16042246-the-1895-murder" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The 1895 Murder on MX">the McCabe/Cody cycle</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/54977041577/granada-television-postmark-granada-television" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada Television Postmark"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Tea at 221B</span></a> dug up this very obscure yet very cool Granada Television Postmark which apparently was “a special postmark which was used specifically for all correspondence about the Sherlock Holmes series."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/54977041577/granada-television-postmark-granada-television" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Granada TV Postmarkl"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/808e00fadf5376e980707363a22d4c1b/tumblr_inline_mpp0kgvCgc1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[How cool would it be to receive a letter with the above postmark affixed to the envelope?]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://the-baz.tumblr.com/post/54763232780" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Baz illustration">The Baz</a></span>, the Tumblr version of <a href="http://thegreatbaz.wordpress.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Baz blog">The Baz: a Basil Rathbone blog</a>, posted this fantastic illustration of Rathbone as the Great Detective. You can also follow this most excellent Rathbone-themed blog on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Baz/411665375597153" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Baz on Facebook">Facebook</a>. Click image below for a much larger version:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://the-baz.tumblr.com/image/54763232780" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Baz illustration"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/5a598eff2264950d8a529e4f9569a485/tumblr_inline_mpnwdfOLGJ1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.]</span></small></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><b>Scion Links:</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/200464886744008/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Game is On FB page"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Game is On</span></a>, a Sherlock pub quiz, happens this weekend on Saturday July 13, 2013 from 2pm to 7pm at the <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&pc=FACEBK&mid=8100&rtp=adr.~pos.40.6768036_-73.963530183333_the+way+station_683+Washington+Ave.%2C+Brooklyn%2C+New+York+11238&cp=40.6768036~-73.963530183333&lvl=16&sty=r&rtop=0~0~0~&mode=D&FORM=FBKPL6&mkt=en-US" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for directions to the Way Station">Way Station</a> in Brooklyn, NYC. Fill out their <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1f59w3IB_RkUvjfmYlu_2fZKIM1UzubQ8_6ryZ_teOAs/viewform" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="RSVP for The Game is On">RSVP form</a> to join in on the fun - and if I can move a few obligations around I might even be in attendance for what sounds like an excellent way to while away an afternoon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://prioryscholarsnyc.com/events" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="PSNYC Events"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Priory Scholars of NYC</span></a> is nearing ‘sold out’ territory for their Summer Session 2013 meeting happening on July 28 at East of Eighth in Manhattan. Contact Headmistress <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://Judith-Freeman@hotmail.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Judith-Freeman@hotmail.com or Facebook">Judith Freeman</a></span> ASAP to reserve your spot at the intellectual smorgasbord that is the PSNYC discussion and quiz. <a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/redh.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="REDH text">REDH</a> is the assignment, so re-read and come prepared.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/index.html" style="clear: left; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="JHWS webpage"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a92d0123cab015417d7d68c6da8e27d3/tumblr_inline_mpnksdzoZx1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><small>[The man, the myth, the legend…<br />Dr John H Watson.]</small></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.johnhwatsonsociety.com/the-watsonian-blog.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="JHWS Blog"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The John H Watson Society</span></a> continues to expand announcing a number of exciting additions to their ledgers (to name a few): <a href="https://twitter.com/DanAndriacco" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Dan Andriacco on Watsonian (scroll down)"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Dan Andriacco</span></a> of <a href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Baker Street Beat blog">Baker Street Beat</a> blog, <a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Rothman on Watsonian (scroll down)"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Steve Rothman</span></a>editor of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/subscriptions.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Subscribe to the BSJ now!!!"><em>Baker Street Journal</em></a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/113734922799757518165" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Don Hobbs Watsonian profile - scroll down"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Don Hobbs</span></a> collector and <a href="http://inspectorlestradesblotterpage.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Inspector Lestrade's Blotter Page">blogger</a>, and <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://twitter.com/KieranMcMullen" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="McMullen on Watsonian blog">Kieran McMullen</a> </span>pastiche author and <a href="http://kieranmcmullen.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="McMullen's blog">blogger</a> who I believe has actually been to Afghanistan in a soldiering capacity. Exciting times to be a fan of <em>the</em> one fixed point in a changing age! Read Dan ‘Dutch’ Andriacco’s recent <a href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/2013/07/hurray-for-john-h-watson-society.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Andriacco on the JHWS">post about the JHWS</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://thedenverofthesecretnine.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/next-meeting-july-14th-bastille-day/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Next meeting: July 14th (Bastille Day)">The Denver of the Secret Nine</a></span> - celebrators of “PG Wodehouse at altitude" - announced that the “second meeting of <span style="font-weight: 700;">The Denver of the Secret Nine</span> will be July 14th at 12:30 p.m. at<a href="http://www.pintspub.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Pints Pub in Denver">Pints Pub</a> in downtown Denver," which is of course on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Bastille Day">Bastille Day</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.soundofthebaskervilles.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sound of the Baskervilles"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Sound of the Baskervilles</span></a> is a scion society of the BSI based out of Seattle, Washington - and also happens to have one of the cleverest Sherlockian pun names, imo - whose next monthly meeting is August 18, 2013, though they have a John H Watson Picnic planned for July 20th (see <a href="http://www.soundofthebaskervilles.com/upcoming.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SOB events">all events here</a>). The SOB’s (as they affectionately refer to themselves) monthly newsletter, <a href="http://www.soundofthebaskervilles.com/currenttwaddle.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ineffable Twaddle newsletter"><em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Ineffable Twaddle</span></em></a>, is packed with Sherlockian bits of info, news, trivia and happenings.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://221bcon.tumblr.com/post/54190424759/221b-con-upcoming-announcements" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="221B Con 2014"><span style="font-weight: 700;">221B Con</span></a> assured attendees of the first annual 2013 221B Con in Atlanta, GA. as well as those interested in partaking in <a href="http://www.221bcon.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="221B Con main website">future 221B Con activities</a> to “fear not over our recent radio silence! We have been working hard on your <span style="font-weight: 700;">2014 221B Con</span> experience and hope to have some exciting announcements for you in the near future." Make sure to follow <a href="https://twitter.com/221bcon" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="@221bcon">@221bcon</a> for up-to-date announcements leading up to opening day April 4, 2014. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.221bcon.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="221B Con webpage"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/243094c503c85cae3743aff83b2b9f9d/tumblr_inline_mpnkwwMo081qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></span></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[2014 221B Con happening on April 4 - 6, 2014.]</span></small></div></div><div class="info" style="color: #aaaaaa; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 15.59375px;">See additional events - and add your own - </span><b style="color: #262626; line-height: 15.59375px;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/114565123495685504221/events" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">on the Sherlock Holmes Community on Google+</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 15.59375px;">.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.59375px;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div>

Friday Sherlock Links Compendium (July 6 - July 12, 2013)

""Friday!" he cried." - The Adventure of the Illustrious Client A weekly roundup of links across the web related to Sher...

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by Scott Monty

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

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtgIEDOLuPEafLCcMm1hGMsdHI7VbID1abTZZk7jFGbMrKQKOg9ZBdZ5-R0Zk52sNDwa6crZhH6w8ok8OogwmVM4JqHX1SMe896lRpgNi5N3VJlbBZDLQkfUcdfx24EvnqMF27iRtPxki/s1600/1895.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtgIEDOLuPEafLCcMm1hGMsdHI7VbID1abTZZk7jFGbMrKQKOg9ZBdZ5-R0Zk52sNDwa6crZhH6w8ok8OogwmVM4JqHX1SMe896lRpgNi5N3VJlbBZDLQkfUcdfx24EvnqMF27iRtPxki/s200/1895.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <i>"...business is mostly done of an evening. Mr. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening."</i><br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> - The Adventure of the Red-Headed League </div> <br /> A weekly roundup of links across the web related to Sherlock Holmes, courtesy of Matt Laffey from <a href="http://always1895.net/">Always1895.net</a>. As usual, w<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">e welcome your comments and feedback, and if you have any material to include in the weekly roundup, please send to </span><a href="mailto:always1895@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;" target="_blank">always1895@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">.</span><br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sh-whoswho.com/index.php?page=search&criteria=member&id=536" style="clear: right; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Mattias Bostrom on Sherlockian Who's Who"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/d79ab6c1e6869f46cd1e1eb73350576f/tumblr_inline_mpgg40mshW1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Mattias Boström, BSI “The Swedish Pathological Society".]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.se/2013/06/the-adventure-of-swedish-sherlockian.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Bostrom interview"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mattias Bostrom</span></a> was interviewed this week on <span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Street Beat</span> by <a href="https://twitter.com/DanAndriacco" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Dan Andriacco on Twitter">Dan Andriacco</a> about Mr Boström’s recently published<em> <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Från Holmes till Sherlock</span></em> ("From Holmes to Sherlock" in English). Mr Boström’s opus, though currently only available in Swedish, is already causing quite a stir in the Sherlockian world. Like Mr Andriacco, I was fortunate enough to have received an inscribed copy of what is one of the finest looking Sherlockian books published in the last few years - and going by just the end notes and bibliography (which are mostly in English), it’s overwhelmingly clear that the book I’m holding is a meticulously researched scholarly love letter to ACD and his most famous creation. Boström answers questions on how he first discovered ACD and Holmes, how he came to write <em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Från Holmes till Sherlock</span></em>, what his research practices are, if/when we can expect an English translation and the level of popularity of Sherlock Holmes in the Scandinavian countries. A fascinating interview which will leave Sherlockians wanting more: “In my book I present some previously unknown facts regarding the years when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was alive, but in the later half of the book there are big chunks of unknown facts."</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <a href="" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/conan-doyle-9780199674947" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Conan Doyle book on Oxford"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Oxford Press</span></a> announced an intriguing sounding ACD-centric release titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Doyle-Writing-Profession-Practice/dp/0199674949" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Pre-order ACD Book from Oxford via Amazon"><em>Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession and Practice</em></a> (2013) by <a href="http://hku-hk.academia.edu/DouglasKerr" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Douglas Kerr's CV, bio and bibliography"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Douglas Kerr</span></a>, set for release in late July 2013.<em>Conan Doyle</em> is described as: "A critical study of the writings of <span style="font-weight: 700;">Arthur Conan Doyle</span> and a cultural biography, this is a book for students of literary and cultural history, and Conan Doyle enthusiasts. It is a full account of all of his writing, and an investigation of the role of the author as he practiced it, as witness, critic, and interpreter of his times….The subject of this study is what Conan Doyle knew - the knowledge of his own culture, its institutions and values and ways of life, its beliefs and anxieties, which is created and shared by his writing. The book is organized according to a number of cultural domains - sport, medicine, science, law and order, army and empire, and the spiritual life." The author Douglas Kerr is Professor of English at the <a href="http://www.english.hku.hk/staff/kerr.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Douglas Kerr's bio at U of HK">University of Hong Kong</a> and has previously written books on<a href="http://www.amazon.com/George-Orwell-Douglas-Kerr/dp/8126913045/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Kerr's book on Orwell">George Orwell</a>, the English soldier-poet <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wilfred-Owens-Voices-Language-Community/dp/0198123701/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Kerr's book on Wilfred Owen">Wilfred Owen</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Figures-Orient-British-Writing/dp/9622099343/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Eastern Figures book by Kerr"><em>Eastern Figures</em></a>, a fascinating sounding study of Orient and Empire in British Writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. I’m a fan of much of ACD’s non-Literary Agent work, particularly his short stories from <em>The Strand</em>and other magazines collected in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Supernatural-Tales-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/0486237257/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="ACD horror stories">The Best Supernatural Tales</a></em> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uncollected-Stories-Conan-Arthur-Sir/dp/038519028X/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Uncollected Stories of ACD"><em>Uncollected Stories: The Unknown Conan Doyle</em></a> and look forward to this comprehensive study of Doyle <em>qua</em> author.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Doyle-Writing-Profession-Practice/dp/0199674949" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click to pre-order ACD book from Oxford via Amazon"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a15a83961bc5486352547d2da68c88be/tumblr_inline_mpebhup7Vf1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[Cover for <em>Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession and Practice</em>.]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com/episode-42-lestrade-appreciation" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Babes Ep 42: Lestrade Appreciation"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Baker Street Babes</span></a>, who can be found at their new online home <span style="font-weight: 700;">Libsyn </span>(<a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com">bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com</a>) as well as <a href="http://audioboo.fm/channel/bakerstreetbabespodcast" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="audioboo.fm/channel/bakerstreetbabespodcast"><span style="font-weight: 700;">AudioBoo</span></a> ("still a work in progress"), released their 42nd podcast episode "<span style="font-weight: 700;">Lestrade Appreciation</span>”: "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Lestrade" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Lestrade info">Detective Inspector Lestrade</a> doesn’t get the credit he deserves, so we’re here to fix that! Join Curly, Lyndsay, Melinda, Kafers, Ardy, & Sarah as we discuss and coo about our favorite Lestrades, how he’s important to Holmes, how to pronounce his name, & who our favorite Lestrudels are. Yes, Lestrudels." To find out what on earth a ‘Lestrudel’ is, give Episode 42 a listen and join in on the Lestrade-a-thon madness!</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.libsyn.com/episode-42-lestrade-appreciation" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for Ep 42 of the Baker Street Babes podcast"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/1574e2d5b0a655835e490af4e3429933/tumblr_inline_mpcc10bH051qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[Lestrade, still dubious regarding “the Napoleon bust business again,", looks on as Holmes acquires the final bust from the steadfastly honest Mr. Sandeford, of Reading. In a few moments Lestrade will commend Holmes for his workmanlike job in acquiring the famous black pearl of the Borgias: ""Well," said Lestrade, “I’ve seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don’t know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We’re not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there’s not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn’t be glad to shake you by the hand."" (<a href="http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/sixn.htm" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for text of SIXN">SIXN</a>)]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/events_srt13.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SIGN by Post-Meridian Radio Players"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Post-Meridian Radio Players</span></a> are the public face of Hub of the Universe Productions, a radio drama company out of the Boston area doing live shows before an audience in the style of old time radio. They did a production of <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em> during the Summer of 2012 - you can listen to an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iVae4wTok" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Post-Meridian Radio Players do HOUN">eight minute sample of their HOUN production here</a> - and this summer they’ll once again bring the Great Detective to the stage with an adaptation of <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/events_srt13.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SIGN play near Boston"><em style="font-weight: 400;">The Sign of Four</em></a></span>! Opening night is July 11th, 2013 at 8pm at <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=204781412831383179818.00049d4b8dca9d37b724e&ll=42.39478,-71.121004&spn=0.007606,0.006845&z=16&source=embed" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="204 Elm Street, Somerville, MA - Map">Responsible Grace</a> in Somerville, MA., with six showings throughout the month of July. I’ve had a listen to their online sample of HOUN and their approach to interpreting the Canon is both faithful and humorous, making fine use of a full cast, mood-inducing music and judiciously chosen old time radio-style sound fx. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.huboftheuniverseproductions.com/events_srt13.html" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="SIGN adaptation info"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/a05fe32a8e2ec89be867bcf63ca43d75/tumblr_inline_mpc9emfp0i1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[Click image for more info about PMRP’s stage adaptation of SIGN and click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iVae4wTok" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="PMRP's HOUN sample">here</a> for a sample of their previous adaptation, <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em>.]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://gabixlerreviews-bookreadersheaven.blogspot.com/2013/07/outstanding-epic-black-history-novel-by.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of Seven For a Secret"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Book Reader’s Heaven</span></a> posted the first blogoshere review of <span style="font-weight: 700;">Lyndsay Faye</span>’s <a href="http://amzn.to/1abHQmp" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Seven For a Secret"><em><b>Seven For a Secret</b></em></a>. “The complexity of this novel is what keeps readers’ attention! Just when we mystery lovers are on the scent, we are confronted with an entirely new political or criminal issue with the normal police actions taking place. Timothy is so engrossed in fulfilling his promise that he disrupts court proceedings, is involved with the murder of another Copper Star, as well as being forced to attend a political function, dressed up in clothes bought for the occasion by his brother…and then being kidnapped himself and taken, beaten, and sentenced to death by a small group of politicos!" Like I said last week, if you enjoyed Ms Faye’s <em>Gods of Gotham</em>, <a href="http://amzn.to/1abHQmp" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Buy Seven for a Secret on Amazon"><em>Seven For a Secret</em></a> will put you right back into the action and squalor of 1850s NYC,</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://gabixlerreviews-bookreadersheaven.blogspot.com/2013/07/outstanding-epic-black-history-novel-by.html" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of Seven For a Secret"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/28cb0196e2eb6539cebe7625541007bc/tumblr_inline_mpebayE5111qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[Timothy and Val Wilde and their Copper Star friends and enemies are back for another round of intrigue, murder and mystery!]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/54158875473/the-devils-foot-unpublished-photograph-from-an" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Unused scene from Granada's DEVI"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Tea at 221B</span></a> discovered this “unpublished photograph from an unused scene. In the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0685621/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Devil's Foot on IMDB">Granada episode</a>, we only see Holmes tying a tourniquet from a back shot, his arm out. He covers his arm as Watson walks in and unsuccessfully hides the cocaine…" Granada’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0685621/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Devil's Foot"><em>Devil’s Foot</em></a> is one of my favorite adaptations of one of my favorite Holmes stories, and this scene sets the tone for precisely where Holmes is in relation to his habit at the start of the episode; later of course we watch as Holmes discards his syringe and ‘solution’. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/54158875473/the-devils-foot-unpublished-photograph-from-an" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger view"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/5d9888e8dd02403450a6ac0e6480c4b4/tumblr_inline_mp5e3o4peI1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>["Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping; and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes." Watson from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Missing_Three-Quarter" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="MISS">MISS</a>.]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/07/company-resi_4.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Baker Street Blog on Klinger v ACD Estate">Baker Street Blog</a></span> posted a lengthy and thought provoking piece by contributor <span style="font-weight: 700;">James O’Leary</span> that deals with various aspects of the ongoing Klinger vs. ACD Estate case. Making sure we’re all on the same page, Mr O’Leary begins by explaining what’s at stake with an extensive quote from the <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Free Sherlock!"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Free Sherlock</span></a> (ie. Team Klinger) site: “Klinger seeks to have the Court determine that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws and that writers, filmmakers, and others are free to create new stories about Holmes, Watson, and others of their circle without paying license fees to the current owners of the remaining copyrights." Almost every Sherlockian I’ve spoken to about this case has at least a moderately strong opinion regarding what the outcome should be (though most are pro-Klinger), but there is apparently a segment of pro-Klinger stalwarts whom “have taken the Free Sherlock movement to heart. They have “taken up arms”, spiritually if not financially, with Klinger and see the seal of the <a href="http://www.conandoyleestate.co.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="ACD Estate">Conan Doyle Estate Ltd</a>. as something undesirable" - in short, they have called for a boycott of Sherlockian ‘products’ that feature the Estate seal. When asked about this boycott, Klinger responded “While I appreciate the sentiment,<span style="font-weight: 700;"> I don’t think that a boycott is fair</span>. Many licensees have been pressured into obtaining licenses, and not everyone has the freedom (that is, the time or the money) to stand up to the Estate’s bullying and threats of blocking sales. I do have a problem with flaunting “authorized” status, as in the case of <em>The House of Silk</em>" (cf. <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz/article4248100/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of House of Silk">Klinger’s review in <em>The Globe and Mail</em> of <em>House of Silk</em></a> and argument against ‘flaunting’ <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz/article4248100/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Klinger review of House of Silk">here</a>). I strongly encourage you to read <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2013/07/shunning-company-resi.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Boycott ACD Estate licensed products?">the entire piece</a>.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/post/54140797480/selected-sherlock-holmes-sites-in-london" style="clear: right; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock sites in London"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/c82db32a4b1486789563b1cdcbab2150/tumblr_inline_mpebz6qXeo1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Spend some time virtually exploring the London of Sherlock Holmes.]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/post/54140797480/selected-sherlock-holmes-sites-in-londonhttp://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/post/54140797480/selected-sherlock-holmes-sites-in-london" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Map of selected Sherlock Holmes sites in London"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sherlock. Everywhere</span></a>. posted a fascinating, online interactive map of selected Sherlock Holmes sites throughout London. The <a href="http://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=zz7OCIy2oDA4.k6pgNWXmShgE" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Map of 31 canonical locations in London">map</a> is based on <em style="color: black; outline: 0px;"><a href="http://mxpublishing.com/product/9781780922096" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The London of Sherlock Holmes (MX)">The London of Sherlock Holmes</a> </em>(MX) by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Thomas Bruce Wheeler</span> and features over 31 select Sherlock Holmes sites in London, including canonical locations such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's-in-the-Strand" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Simpson's-in-the-Strand">Simpson’s on the Strand</a> (mentioned in DYIN and ILLU) and <a href="http://www.evo.org/sherlock/london/lauriston_gardens.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Lauriston Gardens">Lauriston Gardens</a> (STUD); or Sherlockian places of interest such as the <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes Museum">Sherlock Holmes Museum</a> at 239 Baker Street, NW1. </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.nplh.co.uk/the-great-sherlock-holmes-debate-4.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="NPLH - GSHD4 videos"><span style="font-weight: 700;">No Place Like Holmes</span></a>, the website of Sherlockian video reviewer <span style="font-weight: 700;">Ross K</span>, is rolling out a set of videos from the <span style="font-weight: 700;">Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 4</span> which took place on June 8, 2013 and examined “What The Current Media Adaptions Contribute to the legacy of Sherlock Holmes". The current videos  available cover: <a href="http://youtu.be/N87hQOa93Y4" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Intro to GSHD4">Introduction/Opening Remarks</a> regarding the scope of the GSHD 4; and presentations about: 1) The <a href="http://youtu.be/6kY5PAAi7-0" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="WB Sherlock franchise">Warner Bros Franchise</a>; 2) "<a href="http://youtu.be/NVNppEnvQMw" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The upcoming 2013 Russian series">The Russians</a>" (ie. the upcoming Fall 2013 Russian adaptation), 3) <a href="http://youtu.be/Qei-6mkNCls" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Big Finish Audio">Big Finish Audio</a> (ie. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Briggs" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Nicholas Briggs"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Nicholas Briggs</span></a> as Holmes in a variety of audio adaptations of the Canon) - with five more videos to come. Each video is about 7 minutes long and acts as an informative summary of each major, contemporary Holmes adaptation across a variety of mediums; and taken as a whole, the videos provide a nice overview of how ‘we’ are interpreting Holmes in the beginning of the 21st century, over 125 years after the Great Detective’s first appearance in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Beeton's 1886 w/ STUD"><em>Beeton’s Christmas Annual,</em> 1887</a>. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://youtu.be/NVNppEnvQMw?t=1m2s" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for video"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/55f383765d30bc8701192c1fdc1ea90b/tumblr_inline_mpfqwdYm9r1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[Still from “The Russians" presentation featuring Watson (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659521/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Panin on IMDB">Andrei Panin</a>) in the Fall 2013 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2013_TV_series)" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes (2013) Russian">Sherlock Holmes Russian adaptation</a>. Sadly, Mr Panin <a href="http://ruvr.co.uk/2013_03_07/Andrei-Panin-found-dead-flat/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Panin found dead">died unexpectedly on March 7, 2013</a> in his Moscow apartment.]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/04/thrillers-roundup-reviews" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Review of new pastiche"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Guardian</span></a> mentioned a new Holmes pastiche: “Critic <span style="font-weight: 700;">Nick Rennison</span> is a Sherlock Holmes expert with a special interest in the copycat sleuths who sprang up in his wake. So it is no surprise to find him pastiching Conan Doyle in <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781848871793" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Carver's Quest"><em style="font-weight: 400;">Carver’s Quest</em></a></span>, the first of a projected series starring amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his runtish manservant Quint…" From the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050683-carver-s-quest" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Synopsis of Carver's Quest">Goodreads synopsis</a>: set in 1870 (which would make Holmes about 16 years old), it’s "an elaborate mystery which comes to centre on the existence (or not) of a lost text in Ancient Greek, one that may reveal the whereabouts of the treasure hoard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Philip II of Macedonia">Philip II of Macedonia</a>." (Thanks to Brenda for the tip!) </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/04/thrillers-roundup-reviews" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Carver's Quest review"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/19e46870a755a8508df5cecca494d903/tumblr_inline_mpfruv5rzD1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[A young Sherlock Holmes teams up with archaeologist slash detective Adam Carver “from the foggy streets of London to the bandit-infested wilds of Greece…"]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <small><br /></small></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.tumblr.com/dcd3fd948a1fbc41e5b1207d756e581e/tumblr_inline_mpeaahHV8g1qz4rgp.jpg" style="clear: left; color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="HOUN cover"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/35f0c79b808ed582330f82879adf9963/tumblr_inline_mpebpjWyB31qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: start;">[Albert Morrow cover for HOUN.]</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=369470829842412&set=a.135086686614162.22845.100003384941661&type=1" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Ray Wilcockson's Facebook"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Ray Wilcockson</span></a> posted this very cool piece of art by "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Morrow" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Albert Morrow"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Albert Morrow</span></a> (1863-1927), an Irish poster designer who created this <em>Hound of the Baskervilles</em> cover for <em>Strand Magazine</em>" (seen at left). Read more from Mr Wilcockson at his <a href="http://altamarkings.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Markings blog">Markings</a> blog.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/2013/07/sherlock-holmes-and-agony-columns.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes and the Agony Columns">Baker Street Beat</a></span> in ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Agony Columns’ considers the frequency in which characters in the Canon place and respond to newspaper ads as well as Holmes’ acute awareness of the importance that these cryptic, and often desperate, lines of type represent. "He seems to have regarded “the agony columns,” what we now called classified ads, and news stories as equally file-worthy."</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/03/sherlock-comic-con/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="'Sherlock' going to Comic-Con, premiere set for 2014"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Entertainment Weekly</span></a> notes that BBC "<em>Sherlock</em> is going to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time, bringing PBS’ Masterpiece cult hit to the fan convention later this month. The panel will include <span style="font-weight: 700;">Steven Moffat</span> (co-creator, executive producer and writer), <span style="font-weight: 700;">Mark Gatiss</span> (co-creator, executive producer and writer) and <span style="font-weight: 700;">Sue Vertue</span> (producer)."  Unfortunately, EW also confirms that <em>Sherlock</em> will not make it’s American Season 3 debut until 2014.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/54492450114/behind-the-scenes" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Jeremy Brett - behind the scenes"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Tea at 221B</span></a> dug up this delightful behind-the-scenes Granada photo of Jeremy Brett from the set of what I assume to be <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em>.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tea-at-221b.tumblr.com/post/54492450114/behind-the-scenes" style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Click for larger version of Jeremy Brett"><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/85a556da58b8c308e4f2a434cb4a2206/tumblr_inline_mpec83JBGS1qz4rgp.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 500px;" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <small>[Click for a larger version of JB displaying his single stick prowess against an unknown opponent.]</small></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: 700;">Scion Links:</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://amateurmendicant.blogspot.com/2013/06/mark-your-calendars.html" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="AMSD - next meeting">Amateur Mendicant Society of Detroit</a></span> announced that their next meeting is on “Saturday evening October 5th, at the <a href="http://www.commonwealthclubmi.com/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="British Commonwealth Club">British Commonwealth Club</a>" and will feature <a href="http://www.sh-whoswho.com/index.php?page=search&criteria=member&id=562" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Regina Stinson"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Regina S Stinson</span></a> as their guest speaker. </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/200464886744008/" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Game Is On meetup"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Game Is On</span></a> is a Sherlockian gathering happening in Brooklyn, NY on July 13th from 2pm to 7pm. Click for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1f59w3IB_RkUvjfmYlu_2fZKIM1UzubQ8_6ryZ_teOAs/viewform" style="color: black; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" title="RSVP form for The Game Is On">RSVP form</a> for "The Game is On: A Sherlockian Meet-Up At The Way Station" - 683 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11238.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> See additional events - and add your own - <b><a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/114565123495685504221/events" target="_blank">on the Sherlock Holmes Community on Google+</a></b>.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <br /> --

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

"...business is mostly done of an evening. Mr. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening." - The Adventure of the Red-Hea...

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by Scott Monty

"Shunning Company" [RESI]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-qkyq2RWz1KjV9lI7b67IrKniJwCGHLyf3VV_mZlN9SFGwMK_8_7-Mu3auJCHZyddPd_4eRRt9yyj-RUGF-pRz2VPN3KOQHTEIzN-Ts6FcpbQfNvPMdnzfyTlHvGQHq7t8818J9YolCI/s1600/sh02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-qkyq2RWz1KjV9lI7b67IrKniJwCGHLyf3VV_mZlN9SFGwMK_8_7-Mu3auJCHZyddPd_4eRRt9yyj-RUGF-pRz2VPN3KOQHTEIzN-Ts6FcpbQfNvPMdnzfyTlHvGQHq7t8818J9YolCI/s1600/sh02.JPG" /></a></div> <br /> It maybe hard to believe that the whole world does not know of <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/02/imagine-that-you-can-bully-me-chas_14.html">Klinger vs. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.</a> One can read of the lawsuit in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Economist, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/the-man-whos-trying-to-free-sherlock-holmes">Bloomberg Businessweek</a></i>  and hear of it on NPR. Certainly, it must be on the lips of every Sherlockian and every Sherlockian must have an opinion on the matter. It was a topic on<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/04/episode-51-who-is-sherlockian.html"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i></a>  and Les Klinger has been interviewed by the <a href="http://bakerstreetbabes.com/podcast/episode-38-free-sherlock/">Baker Street Babes</a>. In brief, according to the <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/">Free Sherlock</a>:  <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">Klinger seeks to have the Court determine that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are no longer protected by federal copyright laws and that writers, filmmakers, and others are free to create new stories about Holmes, Watson, and others of their circle without paying license fees to the current owners of the remaining copyrights.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">Klinger says that the litigation came about because he and Laurie R. King, best-selling author of the “Mary Russell” series of mysteries that also feature Sherlock Holmes, were co-editing a new book called “In the Company of Sherlock Holmes.”  This collection of stories by major mystery/sci-fi/fantasy authors inspired by the Holmes tales, is to be published by Pegasus Books. “The Conan Doyle Estate contacted our publisher,” says Klinger, “and implied that if the Estate wasn’t paid a license fee, they’d convince the major distributors not to sell the book. Our publisher was, understandably, concerned, and told us that the book couldn’t come out unless this was resolved….</span></div> <div style="margin-left: .25in;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">“This isn’t the first time the Estate has put pressure on creators,” Klinger adds. “It is the first time anyone has stood up to them. In the past, many simply couldn’t afford to fight or to wait for approval, and have given in and paid off the Estate for ‘permission.’ I’m asking the Court to put a permanent stop to this kind of bullying. Holmes and Watson belong to the world, not to some distant relatives of Arthur Conan Doyle.”</span></div> <div style="margin-left: .25in;"> <br /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6321981775136876837" name="more"></a><br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Some have taken the Free Sherlock movement to heart. They have “taken up arms”, spiritually if not financially, with Klinger and see the seal of the <a href="http://www.conandoyleestate.co.uk/">Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.</a> as something undesirable. This is where 221B Cellars come in to the story. Vintners and Sherlockians, 221B Cellars sent out a mailing offering their 2012 vintage A Study In Scarlet wine, which also featured the Estate seal. This struck some well-meaning FreeSherlockians as a political statement and left them disinclined to sample the Cellars wares.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Don Libey of 221B Cellars was puzzled. As he explained on the <a href="http://www.221bcellars.com/221b-cellars-blog.html">site’s blog</a> on April 27, he was unaware of controversy surrounding the Estate and, indeed, thought he was doing the right thing: </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">We have always been respectful of the U.S. copyright laws and comply with the display of the seal and wording as specified by the license. We do this on the wine and on our books. We thought (and continue to believe) that copyright law requires one to meet the conditions of licenses and contracts, and we do so freely as we live in a society and nation of laws. Apparently, there is some disagreement among Sherlockians regarding that responsibility, and when and if the copyright law is changed, we will comply with the lawful changes. And, frankly, we are also respectful and appreciative of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for what he has given us over so many years.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> He further explained the finances involved with A Study In Scarlet wine:</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">The wine is priced at $39 a bottle plus shipping. It costs us $21 a bottle, including a $1.50 licensing fee to The Doyle Estate Ltd. There is little profit in making one barrel of wine for anyone. Of the $18 gross profit, we will donate a total of $9 (50% of profits), giving $4.50 to the University of Minnesota and $4.50 to the Napa Valley Napoleons of S.H. We hope they will use these small donations for educational or research purposes to further Sherlockian studies, perhaps focusing on youth. <br /><br />We are also donating (no cost) 2 bottles to the Baker Street Irregulars and 1 bottle to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. We hope  they will auction them off and raise a few dollars for furthering Sherlockian  studies (the wine and the shipping will cost me, personally, about $120, and that's my  money).<br /><br />The other half of the profit leftover ($9) we will reserve to partially pay for the production of one barrel next year of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, a first edition Zinfandel. Again, only 200 bottles will be made. Yes, we have $9 of <i>GROSS</i> profit (not Net Profit) on a bottle, but this doesn't even begin to cover the advertising expense (we spent $250 on the back page of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> for this  summer, and that helps the BSI and <i>The Baker Street Journal</i> even more), the $400 in printing and postage for the advertising card mailing, the $1,000 cost of a French oak barrel to age the wine in,  the label costs of $300, etc., etc., etc.  I figure if we are successful…this project is only going to cost me about $2,500 of my own money. But, hey...that's what old Sherlockians do to have fun. Some go to Switzerland and visit the falls before they themselves go over the falls; instead, we made 200 bottles of wine for what we thought was a good purpose</span>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> The question arises, should a FreeSherlockian boycott 221B Cellars? Does the $1.50 that goes to the Estate negate the $9.00 that goes to charity and $9.00 of the Cellars gross profit? If so, does that mean to be ideologically pure one must boycott all who are licensees? After all, many Holmes-related titles published in the U.S. in recent years have been licensed by the Estate, whether with an official seal on the cover or an acknowledgement in small print in the front matter. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dust-Shadow-Account-Ripper-Killings/dp/B004J8HWYQ">Lyndsay Faye’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dust and Shadow</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Secretary-Further-Adventure-Sherlock/dp/0312352042">Caleb Carr’s <i>The Italian Secretary</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-House-Silk-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/0316197017">Anthony Horowitz’s <i>The House of Silk</i> </a>, <a href="http://www.youngsherlock.com/">Andrew Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes</a> series, even <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Complete/dp/0393059162">Leslie Klinger’s </a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Complete/dp/0393059162">The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes</a> </i>have an association with the Estate. As does Warner Bros. Sherlock Holmes movie series with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, CBS’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i>, and PBS’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Masterpiece Mystery!</i> when it airs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i>. The pure ideologue will end up with pretty bare shelves when they are done eliminating the taint of the Doyle Estate.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> I emailed Les Klinger and asked him about the issue of boycotting Estate licensees. He had this reply:<br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal" style="background: white; margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">While I appreciate the sentiment, I don’t think that a boycott is fair. Many licensees have been pressured into obtaining licenses, and not everyone has the freedom (that is, the time or the money) to stand up to the Estate’s bullying and threats of blocking sales. </span></div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal" style="background: white; margin-left: .25in;"> <br /></div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal" style="background: white; margin-left: .25in;"> <span style="color: blue;">I do have a problem with flaunting “authorized” status, as in the case of <i>The House of Silk</i>. I wrote about this in my review of that book for the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-house-of-silk-by-anthony-horowitz/article4248100/"><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1367503880577_2676">Toronto Globe & Mail</i></a>. What makes an “authorized” product better than an unauthorized one? That is a more subtle issue, however, than the basic question of whether one <i>must</i> be authorized to sell wine. I find that position ludicrous. The Estate does <i>not</i> own a trademark in the name “221B” or “Sherlock Holmes” and will have a very difficult time establishing their case. There is no copyright infringement that I can see even possible in calling one’s wine “221B Cellars” or using the name or logo of Holmes in marketing it. There are hundreds of businesses that do so.</span></div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal" style="background: white; margin-left: .25in;"> <br /></div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal"> In a follow up email to me he added, “<span style="color: black;">If the owners of 221B Cellars choose to obtain a license, that is their decision; however, they should not be legally compelled to do so under a baseless threat of restraint.</span>” </div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal"> <br /></div> <div class="yiv6726998559msonormal"> <span style="color: black;">What should a FreeSherlockian do? Should they shun all those hold truck with the Estate, or perhaps have certain exceptions like a vegetarian who none the less cannot pass up veal marsala because it tastes so good? If the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. is Charles Augustus Milverton, </span>the king of all the blackmailers who would use Holmes, then are we to paint the victims of “bullying and threats” with the same brush and find them no better than the blackmailer? Who would suffer under such a boycott, the blackmailer or the victim? Or should FreeSherlockians go about their Sherlockian lives, support Les Klinger and let the courts decide the matter?</div> <br /> <i>James O'Leary is a frequent contributor to this site and a rabid fan of the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere podcast.</i><br /> --

"Shunning Company" [RESI]

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