... arrival on the world stage, the line of dialogue comes across with a wink and a sly grin. For Doyle’s contemporaries, it was something altogether different. The two men agree to take rooms at 221B Baker Street. The second chapter is a dissertation on Holmes’ methods. Like any student in geometry class, one Holmes explains his methods, they seem easy even though Watson scoffs...
Over at David Cranmer's The Education of a Pulp Writer on Tuesday , he posted a few quotes from Rex Stout. One of Stout's comments was his take on the differences between the works of Charles Dickens and Arthur ConanDoyle/Sherlock Holmes. I responded to the thread. David liked my comment and, today, has posted it up on his blog to generate some additional discussion. Head on over to...
... Sherlock Holmes film are enough to drive a Holmes fan like me away. Looks too...wrong. Sir Arthur ConanDoyle must be rolling over in his grave. Comments
Ahead of Robert Downey Jr.'s take on the sleuth, the Billy Wilder Theatre and the Paley Center plan to screen old favorites. "Sherlock Holmes," the latest incarnation of Arthur ConanDoyle's analytical, coke-loving sleuth, opens Christmas Day, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the Baker Street detective and Jude Law as Watson, his cohort in crime-solving
In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur ConanDoyle’s most famous characters, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the [...]
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Sir Arthur ConanDoyle’s famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram’s comic book series by writer/director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular detective, with Jude Law stepping into the shoes of his sidekick, Dr. Watson. Heading up the rest of the cast are RocknRolla’s Mark [...] Related posts:...
... are imbedded in the heel.” “And the motto?” “Nemo me impune lacessit.” “Good!” he said. Arthur ConanDoyle “The Red-headed League” Judging from the awful previews, the new movie Sherlock Holmes renders the first great detective completely anonymous. Contrary to what Hollywood wants you to believe, Holmes is not just like any other boring Hollywood action hero: ConanDoyle’s...
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... of others, including a 19th century curiosity, The Fate of Fenella , whose contributors include ConanDoyle and Bram Stoker. Intriguingly enough, I was asked a while back to contribute to a round-robin novel. Whether it will see the light of day, I’m not sure – but it’s an appealing idea.
As we await, with equal measures of eagerness and trepidation, Guy Ritchie's revisionist reboot of Sherlock Holmes , I thought it might be fun to take a nostalgic look back at Basil Rathbone 's distinctive portrayal of the Baker Street sleuth before seeing what Robert Downey Jr. has done with (or to) Arthur ConanDoyle's character . While you watch Rathbone do the deducting in Dressed...
... suspense, horror, crime or romance: Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov or Pushkin? Maybe Arthur ConanDoyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories? Or Edgar Rice Burroughs’s adventure stories with Tarzan of the apes? Or Dickens, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Herman Melville, Mark Twain? Or maybe Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Bram Stoker? Or any other of the almost two hundred classic...
Here's a book that would make a perfect stocking stuffer gift, particularly for a kid who might become a mystery fan someday: it's a small and inexpensive collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, published by Dover. The stories in " Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories " are among Sir Arthur ConanDoyle's best. Four are from the first short story collection, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."...
... (The Holly Tree, Three Branches, The Seven Poor Travellers, To Be Read At Dusk) * Sir Arthur ConanDoyle (A Cabman’s Story, A Case Of Identity, The Man From Archangel, The Red-Headed League) * H. Rider Haggar (Hunter Quartermain’s Story, Long Odds, Only A Dream, and more) * Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Hollow Of Three Hills, The Seven Vagabonds, and more) * Washington Irving (The Legend...
... an import-only novel onto U.S. bestseller lists. The David Foster Wallace Grammar Challenge. ConanDoyle trained as a physician; likewise, Holmes and Watson didn’t just solve cases—they diagnosed them. The continued typecasting of Colin Firth: gay (out or not), English, and/or Darcy. Thirty years of Lucasfilm Christmas cards—don’t miss the change of address notes at the bottom. Having...