FIREARMS OF THE HOLMESIAN CANON
IN FULL candor, I’m not much into firearms. By contrast, as chronicled by his friend and sidekick, Dr. John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes certainly knew his way around them. Here’s … Continue reading
SHERLOCKIAN WOMEN
IT’S GOOD fun researching Sherlock Holmes through the chronicles of Dr. John H. Watson as represented by his literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. At this website, for instance, I’ve … Continue reading
“SIT!” SAID THE CYNOLOGIST
A BOOK of Sherlockiana introduced me to the term cynology, “logy” as in “the study of,” cyno from the Greek κυνóς, “dog.” As is usually the case, this book led … Continue reading
FOLLOWING A SCENT
SHERLOCK HOLMES used his highly perceptive senses as essential tools in his deductions. His chronicler Dr. John H. Watson often praised Holmes’s uncanny ability of identifying a culprit’s features or … Continue reading
A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES
SHERLOCK HOLMES and his chronicler Dr. John H. Watson shared Christmastime in “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” This holiday quest involved a jewel sequestered within a Christmas goose. Sherlockian … Continue reading
A MURDER AT TUDOR CLOSE
A SHOW of hands, please, of those who know Professor Plum, Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green or Mrs. Peacock. North Americans suspect these people of murder performed … Continue reading
TEMPLAR AND HIS HIRONDEL
QUICK: NAME a British adventurer who drove really neat cars. Oh, that one? The spy. Yeah, him too. And then there’s Bulldog Drummond, who, I believe, drove an early Aston … Continue reading
HOLMES IN TIBET
IT IS well known that after his struggle with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Fall, Sherlock Holmes had a two-year sabbatical in Tibet. Dr. John H. Watson chronicles the Reichenbach aspects … Continue reading
PHILIP MARLOWE—SHAMUS EXTRAORDINAIRE
RAYMOND CHANDLER’S Philip Marlowe is almost as real to me as the real Sherlock Holmes. An epitome of the hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe has been portrayed by Humphrey Bogart, Dick … Continue reading
NUTSHELL STUDIES OF UNEXPLAINED DEATH
DOLL HOUSES with grisly murder scenes, constructed by a wealthy grandmother? It sounds downright creepy—until you learn that Frances Glessner Lee also founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard … Continue reading
