HOLMES’ (AND OUR) SCOTLAND YARDS, PART 2
BY 1887, the Metropolitan Police ran out of room in its original Scotland Yard, even with expansion to buildings near its No. 4 Whitehall location. New headquarters, logically named New … Continue reading
HOLMES’ (AND OUR) SCOTLAND YARDS—ALL OF THEM, PART 1
SHERLOCK HOLMES and we recognize Scotland Yard as exemplifying London’s Metropolitan Police. But describing the whereabouts of this place makes for a three-pipe problem, even for the world’s greatest consulting … Continue reading
DINING OUT, HOLMES STYLE, PART 2
WE SLUMMED around with Holmes and Watson yesterday at Goldini’s Italian Restaurant. One restaurant we visit today was a favorite of the world’s greatest consulting detective and his chronicler. Another … Continue reading
DINING OUT, HOLMES STYLE, PART 1
THIS PAST week has been what began years ago as the Monterey Weekend, and I got to reminiscing about the late lamented Sherlock Holmes Pub & Restaurant in The Barnyard … Continue reading
HOLMES AND THE ALLEGEDLY SINKING PARSLEY
DR. JOHN H. Watson tantalized us in “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” wherein he quoted Sherlock Holmes citing “the dreadful business of the Abernetty family.” Like the possibly better … Continue reading
THE SAD TALE OF BRETT AND HOLMES
BRITISH ACTOR Jeremy Brett portrayed Sherlock Holmes for Granada TV’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes between 1984 and 1994. Basil Rathbone owned this role of the world’s first consulting detective … Continue reading
A HOLMES RIVAL IN DEDUCTION?
THE WORLD’S first consulting detective has exhibited great deductive prowess, but he may have a new rival, a mere junior office clerk in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. I enjoy … Continue reading
HOLMES AND VAMPIRES
I’M NOT really into vampires, apart from the frisson delivered by Bram Stoker’s wonderful Dracula and my appreciation of Buffy Summers (truth be known, it’s actually Sarah Michelle Gellar and … Continue reading
HOLMES AND OUR STAR QUARTERBACK
IT IS A tenuous tie indeed between the world’s greatest consulting detective and our high school’s star quarterback, but typewriters provide the link. Sherlock Holmes used the unicity of typed … Continue reading
HOLMES AND (POLYPHONIC) MOTETS
ROLAND DE LASSUS, aka Orlando di Lasso, was a sixteenth-century Flemish composer of religious music, Italian madrigals, French chansons and German lieder. Among his compositions were 516 motets, choral works … Continue reading
