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Top 10 Mysteries Set in the British Countryside

July 7, 2017 William Shaw 0

Top 10 Mysteries Set in the British Countryside The British countryside is such a peaceful, bucolic place. Who on earth would want to kill anyone there? Yet we’ve been doing it for years. From Wuthering Heights onward, the […]

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Lyndsay Faye on Sherlock Holmes: “He’s an outsider, a Bohemian, someone who doesn’t fit into a neat and clean box for people to categorize.”

April 6, 2017 Lyndsay Faye 0

Lyndsay Faye on Sherlock Holmes: “He’s an outsider, a Bohemian, someone who doesn’t fit into a neat and clean box for people to categorize.” TSM: What’s your all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes story?LF: This is always […]

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What of Watson? How Important is Dr. Watson?

February 24, 2017 Tim Symonds 0

What of Watson? How Important is Dr. Watson? Readers of any of my five novels or the short stories will realize I’ve very considerable admiration for Dr. John H. Watson. I’m not the first to […]

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What’s Your Favorite Sherlock Holmes Story?

September 20, 2016 Diane Gilbert Madsen 0

What’s Your Favorite Sherlock Holmes Story? According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Sherlock Holmes is the “most portrayed literary human character in film & TV.”   He fascinated the world when Conan Doyle’s stories first […]

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From Spenser to Sherlock Holmes: How Authors Deal with Aging Detectives

May 18, 2016 Jack Batten 0

From Spenser to Sherlock Holmes, how to keep detectives young while writing a book a year…. Age is a tricky concept in crime novels. What I’m referring to is the age of the sleuth figure. […]

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DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride

February 20, 2016 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride (We have a DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride by our film critic Christopher Chan who probes the depth of this hit tv series.) Improbably but thankfully, the BBC series Sherlock, […]

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Top Ten Sherlock Holmes Actors

December 23, 2015 Bob Rivers 0

Basil Rathbone True, some of the films were, at best, loosely based on the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John Watson was played by Nigel Bruce who turned the good doctor into […]

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The Real Sherlock Holmes

March 27, 2015 Angela Buckley 0

The Real Sherlock Holmes On a cold winter’s evening in December 1886, Arthur Foster left the Queen’s Theatre, Manchester, England, with a pocket full of gold and a bejeweled lady on his arm. Stepping carefully […]

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Private Lives of Great Detectives: From Sherlock Holmes to Spenser

March 24, 2015 Dan Simmons 0

Private Lives of Great Detectives: From Sherlock Holmes to Spenser In 1973, I met another one-name tough guy via paperback and began following him, this one a Boston P.I. named Spenser. Robert B. Parker “grounded” […]

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Sherlock Holmes, the Master of Disguise

March 9, 2015 Daniel Smith 0

Sherlock Holmes, the Master of Disguise I recently finished reading Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz’s excellent follow-up to his equally engaging Holmes novel of a couple of years ago, The House of Silk. It’s well worth a read if […]

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