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June 8, 2012
Alphonse Bertillon on Stuff You Missed in History Class
Digging through the treasure trove that is Stuff You Missed in History Class, I realized that I’ve failed to mention Sarah and Deblina’s podcast about Alphonse Bertillon. His is such a classic story of success and failure and of course his methods of identification strongly influenced Sherlock Holmes. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr. [...]
June 5, 2012
Christopher’s brainwave regarding Jane Austen’s Library Passage: Emma Thompson
Actually, this is not so much an update on my friend Christopher Sandrawich’s efforts protect Jane Austen’s Library Passage in Worthing as it is just an opportunity to offer a charming glimpse at his personality. You can click here for information about the Library Passage and Chris’ efforts to save it from closure. What I [...]
June 4, 2012
Musings about The Musgrave Ritual
The Sunday Outpatients’ Meeting of Doctor Watson’s Neglected Patients, the Denver Sherlock Holmes scion society, discussed The Musgrave Ritual this past Sunday. I couldn’t stay long for the meeting, however, because we had tickets for a Colorado Rockies game (we won 3-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers) and so missed out on the quiz. But [...]
May 27, 2012
Another preview of “Jane, Actually or Jane Austen’s Book Tour”
This preview needs a little setup—actually it needs a lot of setup. Jane Austen is that famous disembodied Regency author we all know and love and almost two hundred years after her death, has landed a contract with Random House to publish her completed Sanditon. Of course the publisher wants a likeness of Jane to [...]
May 22, 2012
Preview of “Jane, Actually, or Jane Austen’s Book Tour”
The following is the first chapter of a book that combines the world of the AfterNet with Jane Austen. Click here to find out some of the rules of the AfterNet. Incidentally, the errors in the news story are intentional. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death — [...]
May 19, 2012
My Particular Friend free for Kindle Sunday, May 20
My Particular Friend can be downloaded for your Kindle for free on Sunday, May 20. What, don’t have a Kindle? Well with Kindle for the PC or Kindle for the Mac or Kindle for the iPad or Kindle for your Android device or Kindle for your toaster, you can read Kindle books without a Kindle. [...]
Think like Holmes and talk like Jane
Or it might be the other way around. Regardless, I thought I might share a few occasions in which I’ve achieved the former and failed the latter. When I was much younger, I met a friend upon the street and after a few minutes conversation, I asked how well her wisdom teeth extraction was healing. [...]
May 16, 2012
Elementary first look
The Syfy channel has some footage from the new CBS show Elementary, which teams Sherlock Holmes with Dr. Joan Watson in modern-day New York City, something of which I’m sure most Sherlockians are aware. The casting of Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Lui as Watson and the decision to place it in modern [...]
Elementary first footage
The Syfy channel has some footage from the new CBS show Elementary, which teams Sherlock Holmes with Dr. Joan Watson in modern-day New York City, something of which I’m sure most Sherlockians are aware. The casting of Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Lui as Watson and the decision to place it in modern [...]
