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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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