SHERLOCK’S SARTORIAL STYLE
BRTISH MEN’S fashion has been jazzed up by Benedict Cumberbatch of BBC’s Sherlock, and thus I believe it’s not inappropriate to examine the sartorial style of the real Sherlock Holmes. … Continue reading
MY FAVORITE ENGLISH DETECTIVE
PAUL TEMPLE is my favorite fictional English detective—as opposed to the tantalizingly real Sherlock Holmes. We have Dr. John H. Watson to thank for chronicling Holmes’ exploits. We can thank … Continue reading
S.S. VAN DINE’S 20 RULES
THE DETECTIVE novelist S.S. Van Dine devised a list of 20 rules for writing detective stories. Whether in observance or willful disregard, the rules first published in 1928 make for … Continue reading
NANCY DREW—THE GIRL
GIVEN THAT, to Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler was the woman, it would follow that, to generations of young women, Nancy Drew was (and continues to be) the girl. Since her debut … Continue reading
HOLMES IN AMERICA?
DID SHERLOCK Holmes ever set foot on the North America continent? I mean actually, not just in those charming, but non-Canonical pastiches. Watson’s chronicles are wonderfully ambiguous in this regard. … Continue reading
DINING WITH HOLMES
ONE OF the best titles of Sherlockiana is “Alimentary, My Dear Watson,” John Bennett Shaw’s study of the Canon’s meals, published in the Baker Street Journal, 1947, 2. In it, … Continue reading
ENGLISH CLUBLAND
NEITHER SHERLOCK Holmes nor his brother Mycroft were English Clubland sorts. True, Mycroft was a Founder of the Diogenes Club, an establishment said to have “the most unsociable and unclubbable … Continue reading
HOLMES AND ANTHRACITE
IT’S ONLY rarely that I offer first-hand knowledge of a Sherlockian locale as described by his friend and colleague, Dr. John H. Watson. True, occasionally travels have taken me to … Continue reading
AFOOT WITH ARCHEOLOGY
SHERLOCK HOLMES was a master at identifying what his chronicler Dr. John H. Watson preferred to call “footsteps.” And, according to Science magazine, 26 July 2013, the San people of … Continue reading
HOLMES’ WHEELS
PERSONAL MOBILITY was essential to Sherlock Holmes in his pursuit of evil doers. And, generally, in London and elsewhere, his travels had nothing to do with internal combustion. (See http://www.wp.me/p2ETap-dK … Continue reading
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