Alistair Duncan's Blog, page 8
September 8, 2017
Review: From Holmes to Sherlock
Yesterday I completed reading Mattias Bostrom's magnum opus From Holmes to Sherlock (I refuse to use the absurd UK title anymore).
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September 5, 2017
Spiritualist Church in Danger
I've recently been contacted by a Wendy Stokes who is campaigning to save a Spiritualist Temple in Camden with Conan Doyle links.
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September 1, 2017
Conan Doyle the Architect and a building in danger.
I received an email a few days ago from actor Brice Stratford regarding the Lyndhurst Grand Hotel in the New Forest.
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August 16, 2017
From Holmes to Sherlock - initial thoughts
I'm only twenty chapters into this massive tome so please understand that this is a preliminary opinion.
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July 27, 2017
Visit to the grave of Arthur Conan Doyle
On July 7th I visited the grave of Arthur Conan Doyle in Minstead. It was the second time I'd been but the first on the actual anniversary of his death.
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July 26, 2017
Wow it's been a month
I do apologise for the lack of recent blog posts. Truth be told, I simply haven't been getting up to much on the Sherlockian front.
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June 28, 2017
Review: Jack The Ripper - Case Closed by Gyles Brandreth
"What, another one?" I hear you cry. Yes, we have a novel about the solving of the Jack The Ripper crimes.
I normally avoid these like the plague. They tend to be either historically inaccurate or have anti-climactic conclusions.
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I normally avoid these like the plague. They tend to be either historically inaccurate or have anti-climactic conclusions.
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June 14, 2017
Review: Granada's Greatest Detective: A Guide to the Classic Sherlock Holmes Television Series
I've made no secret of my opinion that Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock Holmes bar none. Spare me your Wilmer, Rathbone and Cumberbatch - Brett is the Zeus of this pantheon. The Granada series is, for me, the zenith of canonical fidelity (and yes I know standards fell towards the end).
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June 12, 2017
Defending Roy
Not long ago I took part in a Facebook conversation about Conan Doyle and dogs. It was suggested by some on the thread that Conan Doyle possibly did not like dogs based on the way they were presented in the Holmes stories.
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June 5, 2017
Review: Churchill & Orwell - The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
To begin with I openly state that I was given an advance reading copy for free by the publisher.
You'll have to excuse my sojourn away from the work of Conan Doyle and Holmes for this post. I am making an exception because both of the subjects of this book were contemporaries of Conan Doyle for varying amounts of time and one of them met with Conan Doyle more than once.
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You'll have to excuse my sojourn away from the work of Conan Doyle and Holmes for this post. I am making an exception because both of the subjects of this book were contemporaries of Conan Doyle for varying amounts of time and one of them met with Conan Doyle more than once.
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