Special Guest Ray Wilcockson of Altamarkings to discuss ‘The Final Problem, Professor Moriarty and Conan Doyle’s Imagination.’

Sherlock Holmes Week just keeps getting better…

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Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget
(I feel Ray looks exactly like this)

Friends I am very happy to be able to announce that in honor of Undershaw and Conan Doyle the illustrious and endlessly witty Ray Wilcockson, a brilliant former English teacher, writer, blogger and fierce Sherlock Holmes fan will be making a very special guest blog appearance right here during Sherlock Holmes Week! Ray will be my first ever guest blogger and just today he announced on his blog ‘Altamarkings‘ what he will be writing about.

He begins “It is half a century since I wrote a history project about the London of Sherlock Holmes. Much as I enjoyed reading the Canon as a schoolboy, an appreciation of Sir  Arthur Conan Doyle’s pre-eminence as one of English Literature’s greatest short story writers has dawned on me only now, in 2012″

He later goes on to reveal “I am currently working on ‘The Final Problem’, which I consider the most complex, sophisticated and revealing of all 56 short Holmes stories. This involves a consideration of Doyle’s presentation of Professor Moriarty and I feel this section of my forthcoming posts on ‘The Final Problem’ will illustrate Conan Doyle’s consummate craftsmanship as a short story writer and provide a fitting contribution to Joe’s blog and this worthy campaign.”

 To read the full post with all the details from Ray please visit:

http://altamarkings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/markings-to-guest-blog-on-world-of-joe.html

Stay tuned for this, I know whatever he writes is going to be excellent!