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“The game is afoot” at a NYC Sherlock Holmes exhibit – CBS News | Sunday Morning
Updated on: April 10, 2022 / 10:15 AM / CBS News “The game is afoot” at a NYC Sherlock Holmes exhibit It wasn’t easy for Glen Miranker to select what to share from his Sherlockian trove when he and his wife, Cathy, created the exhibit, “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects,” now on display at the…
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Sherlock Holmes, Scientific Detective | The New Yorker
Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation was born into an age of stunning change. How did Holmes react to his era? By Rivka Galchen, January 31, 2022 The Grolier Club, a private society for bibliophiles on the Upper East Side, with its marble foyer and dark wood-panelled gallery, would be a fine stage for a nineteenth-century fictional…
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Biography: Arthur Conan doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were a prosperous Irish-Catholic family. Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur’s father, a chronic alcoholic, was a moderately successful artist, who apart from fathering a brilliant son, never accomplished anything of note. At the age of twenty-two, Charles had married Mary Foley,…
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The Mystery Is Holmes: Why We Return to Conan Doyle’s Stories Over and Over Again ‹ CrimeReads
“if Holmes’s thoughts were laid bare, if his methods ever became commonplace, then Holmes would lose his mystery…” January 21, 2021 By Timothy Miller What’s a mystery all about? The ending? Well, of course, you say—the denouement, the unraveling of the clues, the big reveal. If it’s too easy to guess the ending before that very moment, or…
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If you want to laugh, watch this Mitchell and Webb sketch about two rival actors playing Holmes and Watson ‹ CrimeReads
Holmes and Watson are at it again, this time solving the case of how to make us feel joy again. February 26, 2021 By Olivia Rutigliano Hello chums. This is a very short post whose sole intention is to provide you with access to the following hysterical sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look, the British sketch show featuring…
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Remembering Christopher Plummer – I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere
The world has lost another significant Sherlock Holmes actor. Christopher Plummer passed away today at the age of 91 after suffering a fall. Plummer was a versatile actor, at home on the stage, television, and film, and the variety of his roles underscored his versatility and talent. From his early career on stage and television,…
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Sherlock Series Four Air Date is Now Officially Confirmed — Sherlocks Home
And it’s really not that long to wait. via Sherlock Series Four Air Date is Now Officially Confirmed — Sherlocks Home
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New Sherlock Holmes anthology’s appeal is elementary, my dear! – CSMonitor.com
Deerstalker hat? Check. Victorian-era London? Check. Dr. Watson valiantly trying to keep up? Definitely check. Many of the tales in The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories are as Sherlock Holmesian as they come. But readers will deduce the big twist from the cover: Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t write most of them. Instead, this anthology…
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‘The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories’ and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s ‘Mycroft Holmes’ – The New York Times
We in 2015, we the entertained, who live in a fun house of Sherlocks — Cumberbatch Sherlock, Downey Jr. Sherlock, Jonny Lee Miller Sherlock, etc. — need no convincing of the imaginative vitality of Sherlock Holmes. But the fact that Bret Harte, revered and shaggy forebear, of whose stories Conan Doyle felt his own early…
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BBC – Culture – Film Review: Mr Holmes is a whole new spin on Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes seems to get younger every year. The great detective used to be a tweedy, pipe-smoker – at least in his best-known on-screen incarnations when depicted by Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and, most famously, Basil Rathbone – but he has recently mutated into a hyperactive, blisteringly sexy action hero, as played by Benedict Cumberbatch,…
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BREAKING IN: Elementary, My Dear Screenwriter- 7 Things You Can Learn from “Sherlock” – Script Magazine
As a lifelong Sherlock Holmes buff, I thought I’d hate the BBC TV series, Sherlock, which is based on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories but is updated to 21st century London. I was wrong. How wrong was I? About as wrong as Ptolemy was when he said that Earth– not the Sun– is…
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Sherlock Holmes: Museum of London Exhibition – Telegraph
“This year, the Museum of London welcomes an exciting new exhibition, delving into the mind of the world’s most famous fictional detective; Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes – London’s first on the detective since 1951. Going beyond film and fiction, visitors to the museum will be transported to the real Victorian London – the backdrop…
