I would like to be Kitty from Illustrious client for a day cos she was quite fiery and got a bit of excitement running from thugs around the dingey streets of London. And as a bonus she got a cosy car...
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Some of you will have already read that I had a Holmesian dream last night. For those who didn't, the details are as follows:
I was in deep trouble. I have no idea what it is I'd done, but it ...
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Have you ever, when reading a Holmes story, actually solved the case before the answer was revealed?
I know they aren't really whodunnits in the Agatha Christie model, but there are some clues tha...
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I know that The Three Students is not one of the most popular tales in the canon. I've heard it much maligned for some inconsistencies about the Thucydides test, and the crime of stealing test ans...
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Holmes, Watson and others mentioned in the Canon have some amazing and interesting quotes attached to them, which have become famous over the years for various reasons.
What are your favourite quotes...
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Hi!! I have recently bought five Reader's Digest books in the Sherlock Holmes series. I was told, that there are nine books in the series, and I am wondering if anyo...
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I just reread The Gloria Scott & noticed something for the first time.
In the beginning of the tale, Holmes comments on his lack of friends at University, stating that his "line of study was ...
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This forum is wonderful and I’d like to know what is a nice edition (publisher, year, ISBN if possible) for the Return, Casebook, and Last Bow. I’m looking for something that has a good sized font an...
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With the Holmes & Watson stories being written in the Victorian period, Doyle never had to explain what half the things in his stories were, but to us, reading them some hundred and twenty (or the...
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Here's an article on the Diogenes Club:
Comfortable Chairs and the Latest Periodicals: A Look at that Queerest of Clubs [http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/DiogenesClub.html]>...
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Found an interesting article about Watson's wives. Check it out: Watson's Wives [http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/WatsonsWives.html]>...
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I just re-read The Adventure of Black Peter and have a question. The last line is:
"If you want me for the trial, my address and that of watson will be somewhere in Norway..."
Now, the story...
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Ask a silly question, but does Colonel Moran's conviction stand up in a legal sense from the evidence we're given in EMPT?
The charge - shooting the Honourable Ronald Adair and presumably his ...
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I've been twice in the Westminster Abbey. The place is full of history. I like so much the 'Poet's Corner', where a lot of writers/poets are remembered (if not buried).
But I was thi...
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A new topic from the one started on Test your Canon Skills Quiz...
What Persian Slipper said:
QUOTE...
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This may be a dumb question, but my copy of Wist says that it happened in 1892. Did I miss something some where, is it a typo, or what? Wasn't Holmes thought to be at the bottom of Reichenbach Fal...
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Sorry I know my title is kinda misleading. Of course Watson didn't make £1200 a year but he had the potiential.
Today a kid in our sherlockian forum said "Watson could make £ 1200 a year...
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With all of the pistol packing that H&W do in their adventures, I can recall only a few occasions where they actually get to shoot something.
The most magnificent example is in The Sign of Four, w...
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According to the Camden House website [http://168.144.50.205/221bcollection/canon/index.htm]>, "The Yellow Face" was first published in the Strand Magazine in February 1893, with 7 illustrat...
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A little animation very well done :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsS16wnsSE [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsS16wnsSE]>
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On youtube the trailer Sherlock Holmes' new book :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE9w5Gt_WM8 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE9w5Gt_WM8]>
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"What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay."
This line has me puzzled.
I am familiar enough with the standard Chopin repetoire, includi...
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I must admit that I was taken aback when I reached the end of this one, as I think most first time readers were.
I felt a bit cheated by the culprit, but on second thought, it was a pretty good idea. ...
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Has anyone read this?
It is interesting in that is was apparently Sherlock's last appearance.
It struck me as Sherlock Lite, in that all of the elements were there, but were either indifferently s...
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This is one of my favorites, and it is the most humorous of the stories.
Only a couple of oddities stand out to me:
Why did Clay keep going down to the basement to persumably develope his photos? What...
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