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Annotated Sherlock Holmes

When you’ve read the 60 stories in the Canon a few times, or maybe on the very first reading, you may start to wonder about some of the terms used, some of the places mentioned, some of the people...

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Holmes Christmas List 2009

With the case of the Blue Carbuncle just chronologically around the corner and people beginning to think about gifts, here are ten possibilities for your Christmas list. 1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes...

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The Carleton Hobbs Sherlock Holmes Collection

The BBC has released a set of three volumes of cases from the Canon starring Carleton Hobbs as Holmes and Norman Shelley as my good self. Carleton Hobbs portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 80 radio...

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I keep a bull pup [STUD]

The new Sherlock Holmes film has revived a minor controversy that has puzzled students of The Canon for quite a while. This is brought about by the existence in the film of Gladstone, a young bulldog....

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Very sincerely yours, Sherlock Holmes [FINA]

After the tragic events of May 1891 it was a couple of years before I could publish the account in The Final Problem. I found even the mention of Switzerland, Meiringen, and especially the Reichenbach...

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Come at once if convenient – if inconvenient come all the same [CREE]

Having recently visited Prague, the singular facts concerning Professor Presbury that I layed before my readers in The Creeping Man naturally came to mind. This story, in The Case-book of Sherlock...

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Everything is in order [CHAS]

When I heard recently that someone had set themselves a summer reading project to read the entire Canon of sixty stories including all the short stories and the four novels, I suggested an unusual...

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I hear of Sherlock everywhere [GREE] – American Radio Part 2

At the end of Part 1, I said the heyday of Holmes on the radio in the USA was coming to an end with the series of 39 shows with Ben Wright as Holmes and Eric Snowden taking my part. This series lasted...

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Eliminate the Impossible

“Eliminate the Impossible” is the first of two books by Alistair Duncan on Holmes. His second Holmes book, “Close to Holmes” in which he looks at the historical connections between London, Holmes and...

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56 Stories in 56 Days

As part of the lead up to the Great Sherlock Holmes Debate, Charlotte Anne Walters, author of Barefoot on Baker Streethas reviewed each of the 56 short stories. The reviews are quite short but neatly...

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Discovering Sherlock Holmes

Stanford University is located between San Francisco and San Jose in California and is one of the world’s leading teaching and research universities. Its Victorian Reading Project has produced...

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