Alistair Duncan's Blog, page 11
November 21, 2016
The BFI has made available some excellent footage of Arthur Conan Doyle and his family.
November 15, 2016
Bontempi and the Six Napoleons
In my book An Entirely New Country I wrote about a period when Arthur Conan Doyle got involved, as a business venture, with a device called the Sculptograph. It remains my strong belief that his involvement with this device inspired him to write the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Six Napoleons which came out in 1904.Read more »
November 3, 2016
Working class Holmes - new book on November 11 2016
Melvyn Small has produced two Holmes books in which Holmes is a working-class man based in Middlesbrough.Read more »
November 1, 2016
Guest Post from Alan Lance Andersen
Some time ago I posted about the challenges of writing a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that felt authentic. Naturally I'm not the only person with thoughts on this subject...Read more »
October 18, 2016
October 7, 2016
October 5, 2016
October 4, 2016
"Fun" with Facebook Holmes groups
Since I returned to Facebook in 2015 I have become a member of a number of Sherlock Holmes groups. The trouble is that there are so many of them and it often takes a little while to work out which you want to be a member of.Read more »
