From the department of Thank Heavens They Caught That In Time: At Cambridge University, some 170,000 books have been found in the library tower that were originally tossed aside as “little more than pornography.”
Among the stash: first editions by Doyle, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Sir Walter Scott.
Yikes! Read the whole sordid affair here.
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Here’s an excerpt from a very positive review of Laurie King’s newest work, “The Art of Detection”:
Mary, who signs on as Holmes’ apprentice and ends up as his wife, doesn’t make an appearance here, but her husband solves the case in an unpublished story rumored to have been the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [...]
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This does seem strange … as I’m sure you noticed, Google celebrated the birthday of Sir Arthur last week with the image seen here at the top of its home page. The much-loved search engine has made a habit of commemorating interesting days and holidays with custom graphics.
And yet, as this post points out, Google [...]
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburgh, to Irish parents Charles Altamont Doyle and Mary Doyle. He was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left the school in 1875 he rejected Christianity to become an agnostic.
From 1876 to 1881 he [...]
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We were saddened to learn of the passing of Frankie Thomas, TV’s Space Cadet – and the author of the Holmes pastiche “Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders.” Here’s the announcement, from the Associated Press:
LOS ANGELES – Frankie Thomas, who became famous in the 1950s for his starring role in the TV children’s show “Tom [...]
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Why am I including this story here? No, it’s not in hopes of getting some Google-love by mentioning Brown’s opus (although …).
No, it’s this clever reference made at the end of a virulently anti-”Da Vinci” review:
If you liked “The Da Vinci Code� you should try reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle [...]
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Two Sherlock Holmes titles will be among the inaugural run from Bed Books, makers of a very strange new product: books with the text turned sideways. The idea is that people laying down in bed will find it more comfortable, since they won’t have to hold the book open. Or something like that.
TRINIDAD, Calif., May [...]
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I enjoyed the film “Young Sherlock Holmes,” but had no idea how important it was from a technological standpoint – according to this story in PC Magazine, it was the first film to use digital effects to simulate a real-world item.
In earlier films like Alien and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, digital images [...]
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