This has been a weird ass July, specifically in terms of temperature. While other states and countries have had record heatwaves, my little section of Northern California has been having the mildest fucking summer I’ve ever seen in my life. Like, we only just got up to the 80’s last week. The week before that, … Continue reading 8/5/2025: Querying Begins, The Amazing Race, and A Distinct Lack of a Heat Wave| My Geek Blasphemy
Hi all: I bring you a book by a classic and very famous writer, although it was quite a surprise to me, and not one I had come across before. It is not one of her best, in my opinion, but it is a f…| Just Olga
Discover key facts and stories about Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective who changed crime fiction forever.| Podcast Notes
I met Sherlock Holmes in the seventh-grade reading lab. Half of our dual classroom set-up with inhabited by books in various modes of storage – book racks, and shelves. I believe the Watermill copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles … Continue reading →| Nashville Book Worm
Il y a quelques années, je suis tombé sur une bd intitulée Dans la tête de Sherlock Holmes. Aimant beaucoup le détective de Baker Street, il m’arrive de m’intéresser à l’une des innombrables œuvres écrites par d’autres que son créateur. Cette bande-dessinée m’avait bien plu et j’ai récemment décidé de la relire.| L'affaire Herbefol
One of the most delightfully odd tales in the Sherlock Holmes canon, “The Red-Headed League” showcases Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s talent for mixing humor, eccentricity, and classic detective work into a perfectly crafted short story. “The Red-Headed League” was first published in The Strand in 1891. The Plot Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story The […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
My Review: “There’s nothing more disarming than a Jack Russell terrier,” according to Mary Russell’s long-absent rogue of an uncle, Jake Russell. Jake was so much the epitome of the black sheep of the family that he managed to fade completely into the shadows for fourteen long, and often dark, years. But now he’s arrived [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
Having given up on no fewer than three Sherlock Holmes pastiches in this final entry for my Tuesday undertakings this month, I return to the source: what was for me the book that got me reading stories about Holmes not written by people called A. Conan Doyle or J.D. Carr, The House of Silk (2011) … Continue reading #1298: No Police Like Holmes – The House of Silk (2011) by Anthony Horowitz| The Invisible Event
A second Sherlock Holmes pastiche from the pen of Robert J. Harris, The Devil’s Blaze (2022) sees him once again take his cue from the Second World War setting of the Basil Rathbone films rather than Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Victorian milieu. As with his debut in this series, A Study in Crimson (2020), we … Continue reading #1295: No Police Like Holmes – The Devil’s Blaze: Sherlock Holmes 1943 (2022) by Robert J. Harris| The Invisible Event
Is there any fictional character who has been showered with parodies, pastiches, homages and adaptations as much as Sherlock Holmes? Has anyone even tried to keep track of all the stories…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs. Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes. The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs. Hudson insists that her friend is innocen…| Swords & Spectres
Pre-orders for the special hardcover edition of A Man Named Baskerville are now available.| Jim Nelson
And that's a wrap—MX Publishing's Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville closed earlier today with 81 backers pledging £1,842 (USD$2,241) toward the upcoming Special Edition hardback. Learn more about A Man Named Baskerville on my web site.| Jim Nelson
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective was released in 1982, apparently to great critical acclaim. I’ve been thinking about it recently because while I play it cooperatively, I think it would be a fine solo game, and solo gaming is having a bit of a moment. It’s also inspired many imitators.| The Benign Brown Beast
The Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville: Special Edition has raised nearly $1,700 in two weeks, and great donor rewards are still available.| Jim Nelson
Sherlock Holmes is often characterised – wrongly, in this reader’s opinion – as cold and distant, or aloof and disdainful, or sometimes explicitly sociopathic. But in “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” which I read every Christmas Eve, we find all the evidence we need that he was in fact intensely social – or, at […]| @Number 71
I’m a fan of Sherlock Holmes, and I’m a fan of a good Sherlock Holmes pastiche, so when Holmes and Moriarty (2024) by Gareth Rubin floated across my radar as being endorsed by the Conan…| The Invisible Event
Sometimes the Holmes canon surprises me; I have very fond memories of certain stories, while others are almost a complete blank.| The Invisible Event
Is this the the best title in the Sherlock Holmes canon? I don’t mean the best story, but rather the most intriguing combination of words put together to entice you in.| The Invisible Event
Many authors and film-makers would seek to overturn this in the years ahead, but as far as the canon goes we find ourselves visiting Sherlock Holmes’ first ever case.| The Invisible Event
Another month, another Sherlock Holmes pastiche, this time from the very enjoyable US TV series Elementary (2012-19). My belated discovery of two novelisations in that universe was a source of imme…| The Invisible Event
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes, solidly 15 of which must be among the most prized creations in the genre. The other 41, then, vary somewhat.| The Invisible Event
Years ago, as a younger and callower man, I swore that the only Sherlock Holmes stories I would read were those written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Then I became a John Dickson Carr fan, and it’s …| The Invisible Event
This slipped by me in February, but today I learned A Man Named Baskerville is reviewed positively at Melisende’s Library: This is the much needed backstory of the character of Stapleton from Conan Doyle’s “Hound of the Baskervilles”. It is exceedingly well done and in keeping with Conan Doyle’s original story. … Heartily recommended for […]| Jim Nelson
If you’re a NetGalley member, my Sherlock Holmes-inspired novel A Man Named Baskerville is now available for download and review. Baskerville is my take on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Told as a journal penned by the original’s villain, it relates his life story from a pauper’s childhood in the Empire of Brazil to life […]| Jim Nelson
My post on the history of Sherlock Holmes' copyright status has been indexed by Google but is not available via search. In other words, Google's servers have seen the post, they've analyzed the content, but they refuse to add it to their search engine for users to discover.| Jim Nelson
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My readers have spoken; I had so many complimentary comments the other day on my attempt to provide very brief comments about some books that, yes, I see your point and I’ll try to do more. Today’s exercise is looking at the books that have been hanging around at the bottom of my iBooks list, […]| Noah's Archives