The Riddle of the Sands review: James Bond it’s not
I am finally done with Erskine Childer’s The Riddle of the Sands, A Record of Secret Service, or as I call it, …
The Sherlockian review: Dan Brown it’s not
Reviewing Graham Moore’s The Sherlockian inexorably makes me want to draw comparisons to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, and for that …
The online world of Sherlock Holmes
Goodness, Sherlock Holmes tweets a lot, or at least the staffer(s) at Hartswood Films who is pretending to be Holmes, tweets a …
Edward Hardwicke obituary
It’s hard to take that Edward Hardwicke, who played Watson to Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, has died. There is a nice obituary …
Doctor Watson’s Neglected Patients meeting
I am a Holmes scion virgin no longer having just attended the May tea for Doctor Watson’s Neglected Patients in Denver.
What I’m reading: Confessions of Jane Austen Addict
It seems hard to believe that I haven’t yet read Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, but I’ve held off because of …
The Royal Mews video
While researching glossary entries for phaetons, barouches and broughams I found this video of the Royal Mews preparing for the wedding, maddeningly …