Monday, November 28, 2016

An Elementary rerun: A Study in Not Getting Sued.

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After yesterday's trip through five seasons of two Sherlock Holmes TV adaptations and one procedural that uses the name, it seemed time ...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Three Sherlocks, four seasons -- quality, quantity, or quagmires?

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For a lark this morning, I decided to just run through the later TV series adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories (sorry, Ronald Howard)...
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Friday, November 25, 2016

"Bacon" my way to Sherlock Holmes.

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More than one Sherlockian I know likes to play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with Sherlock Holmes, a parlor game where you connect ...

Black Friday and some easy Sherlock Holmes deals.

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"As to money, well, so far as a fiver, or even a tenner, goes, you can always look to me." -- Godfrey Staunton's skinflint u...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Pilgrims of the Canon . . . the choice!

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One of the best things about the American art of Thanksgiving is that the requirements are very few. Cook a meal, eat a meal. Some overly se...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Two winter's nights with a story from Sherlock Holmes.

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It's the 1880s. Nothing is on television, because television doesn't exist. No smartphone, no laptop, no endless internet of diverti...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Seventeen years, just like the seventeen steps to 221B Baker Street.

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Revisiting the entire Canon of Sherlock Holmes, as one does reading the appreciative essays of About Sixty, one gets reminded of some pretty...