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Happy Sherlock Holmes Day!

5/22/2019

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So I just figured out that today is Sherlock Holmes Day (also known as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday)! Hope all you Sherlockians out there have a lovely day!
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The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols

4/23/2019

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Okay, I will admit that I have been rather lax of late, as far as this blog is concerned. I don't know where the time has gone! However, something I just heard on a podcast from The Reduced Shakespeare Company inspired me to look up the work of Nicholas Meyer, who not only directed the greatest Star Trek film of all time (Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan), but also wrote a trilogy of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. The best known of his Holmes novels is, of course, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which was also made into a film by the same name. The other two are not as well known, although I'm sure most Sherlockians have heard of them: The West End Horror and The Canary Trainer. 

When I looked those three books up just now, though, I also found that Meyer will be releasing a FOURTH Holmes pastiche in October 2019: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols. You can read more about the upcoming novel at the publisher's website. I enjoyed Meyer's earlier novels, so I imagine I will have to check the new one out when it is released!

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SEVENTY Holmes Films Ranked Best to Worst

3/2/2019

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WOW. I've seen quite a few Top Ten lists of Holmes films: Top Ten Best, Top Ten Worst, etc. But Rob Hunter at slashfilm.com has really outdone himself: he has watched SEVENTY Holmes adaptations from film and TV and ranked them, worst to best. Pretty impressive accomplishment! You can read Part One of this gargantuan undertaking at the link below...

Sherlock Holmes in the Movies: Ranking 70 Feature-Length Films Starring the Iconic Detective (Part One)

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German "Paranoid" cover: Der Hund von Baskerville

3/2/2019

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I stumbled over this AV Club article about a bizarre German cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid,"which for some reason is about Sherlock Holmes. You can watch video of the cover below...the world is a crazy place.
In case your German is a little rusty, I ran the lyrics through Bing's translator, and here's what it spit out:
Fog moves in dense clouds
across the Moor from Forest Hill
Green spooky grins a WISP
it is night in Baskerville
who spread fear and terror
who destroyed, what he wants
everybody is looking to hide
before the Hound of the B
askervilles
Wen they are incurred
This Hound of the Baskervilles, oh yeah
lost
in the fight for Baskerville, oh, yeah
and it dares not soul

in the Dark Moor into
everyone trembles for his life
who is probably the Be next?
Today the mission is completed
that his mad master gave hi
m
silent, how he once got
he sneaks into the bog down
fog moves in dense clouds
across the Moor from Forrest Hill
And hides the puzzle question
to the Hound of the Baskervilles
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This comic strip's punch line made me smile.

2/22/2019

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from the comic strip Fluff (copied from thecomicstrips.com)
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The World of Sherlock Holmes

2/18/2019

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One interesting Sherlockian item I recently picked up from the local library is a book by Martin Fido entitled The World of Sherlock Holmes. It's a nicely illustrated hardcover book that is going to make a neat addition to my Sherlockian library. There's no earth shattering new research in the book or anything like that, but it has a decent amount of basic info about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous character, and it's all presented quite nicely. I found it pretty cheap on Amazon.com, so it should be on its way soon!
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Frock Flicks: Jeremy Brett's Holmes

2/16/2019

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OK, confession time: I happen to be fascinated by a website called Frock Flicks, wherein costume experts review actors and films/TV shows that feature period costume, with often hilarious (and sometimes fairly profane) commentary. From time to time, I check in with the site to see what they've said about this or that period drama. 
Of course, they have been known to tackle Sherlock Holmes from time to time. So, for your enjoyment, here is a link to their article about a few of the costumes from Granada's television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, featuring the marvelous Jeremy Brett as the Great Detective...

Frock Flicks: ​A Historical Sherlock Holmes – No, Not That One!

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A Sherlock Holmes quote for your Wednesday morning

2/13/2019

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"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."
-"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
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Public domain works and the modern world

2/8/2019

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Recently, I've been acquiring a few volumes in Leslie Klinger's annotated version of the Holmes canon entitled The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library. (I did a post on this collection a couple weeks ago.) I encountered a little problem with a third party Amazon seller when I ordered The Sign of Four, that I think demonstrates one challenge that can make public domain works so tricky in this modern world.

A simple Amazon search will find all kinds of editions of Sherlock Holmes very quickly. The problem is, the description of any individual volume does not always match the edition for which you are searching. When I ordered the Klinger edition of The Sign of Four, it showed not only a picture that matched that edition, but even had the correct publication number, including ISBN. Imagine my surprise, then, when I received a very small, cheap reprint with absolutely no annotations. I finally got the situation worked out, but ended up having to order a new copy for several dollars more. I've noticed a similar problem in the past when I was trying to find individual volumes of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. What you search for doesn't always match what comes up. I've also experienced similar confusion with versions of Shakespeare (another public domain classic).

The thing with public domains works is, anyone can reprint them and sell them at a pretty good profit. And there's little in the way of control of information that is available from online booksellers (Amazon isn't the only seller with whom I've experienced this problem in the past). So if you're looking for Sherlock Holmes editions on the Internet, be as careful as you can to be sure you're ordering the right one. Sometimes, even when all the info matches, you still get the wrong one, as I did with The Sign of Four. Don't get me wrong, I am very pleased that it is so easy to find books online, but with public domain works, there are some unique challenges. Happy shopping!

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Studio C does Sherlock

2/7/2019

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One of my favorite sketch comedy shows is out of Brigham Young University's byuTV, a show called Studio C. They did a parody of the BBC's Sherlock in a sketch a few years ago. I wonder if they know how uncomplimentary A Study in Scarlet was to Mormons?
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