Alistair Duncan's Blog, page 5

April 1, 2019

What is your best source of Sherlockian / Doylean reference material?

As my more regular readers will know, I have written some books and articles in addition to this blog. To be able to do so with any reliability and accuracy I needed good sources of reference material.

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Published on April 01, 2019 01:37

March 26, 2019

Some local news.

Arthur Conan Doyle lived in the Surrey town of Haslemere for six months before moving to nearby Hindhead. Haslemere doesn't make much of the connection regrettably but this changed, in a small way, around three years ago.

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Published on March 26, 2019 03:57

March 6, 2019

Revisiting the past

Due to the lack of Sherlockian activity (or activity interesting to me) I have been struggling with topics to write about.

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Published on March 06, 2019 00:24

February 25, 2019

Holmes and Watson: Thoughts

Everyone else appears to have made a statement on this film so I am going to join them and no I haven't seen it.

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Published on February 25, 2019 05:14

January 18, 2019

Coming soon (I hope)...

Some of you may have noticed me referring to a Doylean commission on social media over the last few weeks.

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Published on January 18, 2019 00:36

December 10, 2018

Xmas recommendations 2018

Well we've had quite a year of books in our favourite field in 2018. These are my personal recommendations for present ideas for the Doyleockian in your life.

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Published on December 10, 2018 08:46

December 5, 2018

Solar Pons - some thoughts

Most fans of the Sherlock Holmes stories are aware of the amount of pastiche and homage efforts out there. They come in many categories.

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Published on December 05, 2018 01:53

November 27, 2018

Review: The Complete Paget Porfolio

When I first saw the earlier adverts for The Complete Paget Portfolio I was excited and the book does not disappoint.

The Sidney Paget Holmes drawings are, in my opinion, definitive. They set the standard for depictions of Holmes in pretty much all media. As such I really want to know all I can about them.

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Published on November 27, 2018 01:47

November 23, 2018

Another tenuous post but needs must...

As I believe I have said before, I'm not a massive fan of Sherlock Holmes pastiche...

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Published on November 23, 2018 05:47

October 23, 2018

Apologies for the lack of activity

Once again I find myself having to apologise for the lack of recent activity on my blog.

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Published on October 23, 2018 00:26