A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural
Available Sept. 24, 2014 It’s nearly impossible for a Sherlockian to remember that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote anything other than the Sherlock Holmes …
Our Mutual Friends excerpt: The Putative Prince
This is the first chapter of the sequel to My Particular Friend. The chapter is titled The Affair of the Putative Prince and …
London Map of 1804
I’ve mentioned this website here before and I’m sure well-traveled authors already know of it, but I recently had reason to revisit mapco.net …
Jane Austen timeline
View this timeline in a separate window: http://cuculcan.com/timeline-assets/Jane-Austen/Jane-Austen-timeline.html Read the accompanying article at The Timeline of the Life of Jane Austen at cuculcan.com.
Smacking Holmes upside the head; an analysis of Silver Blaze
Somedays you just want to smack Sherlock Holmes upside the head. Certainly that was my feeling after re-reading Silver Blaze, the first story in …
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches; was it all a charade?
Sometimes I appreciate a Sherlock Holmes story because of the Great Detective’s inspired logic—“the curious incident of the dog in the night-time”—or because …
Nicholas Nickleby audio book recommendation
I’ve just finished my second Charles Dickens book read by Mil Nicholson at Librivox: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. I can’t …
Another was Holmes based on a real person speculation
A story in the Telegraph of London suggests Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on that of Mancunian …
That British Stiff Upper Lip Exposed!
I was delighted by this documentary exploring the origins of the British “stiff upper lip” presented by Ian Hislop, especially the idea …
The Invention of Murder review
It’s pretty obvious while reading The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, that …