PINow, a match-making site for people trying to locate private investigators, recently published its list of the ten greatest private detectives. Guess who was number 1?
Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character that author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle grew to hate, was the first one to make a deerstalker cap and magnifying glass something besides hopelessly geeky. [...]
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Here’s a nice commentary that ran today in the Savannah Morning News, written by avid Sherlockian George Hubbs, on how Holmes’ approach to solving crimes can be used as a template for life in general. Well worth a read.
Worldwide, Sherlock Holmes lives on in hundreds of Sherlockian societies that study and celebrate his cases. Rumor [...]
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Adventure Gamers has published a first look at the new Holmes PC game, “The Awakened.” Looks promising …
It’s perhaps a bit excessive to highlight a game’s load screens as a noteworthy feature, but there’s only one chance to make a good first impression, and The Awakened definitely gets off on the right foot. Rather [...]
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The first reviews are in on the new PC game “Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.” The verdict? Looks like we’re still waiting for a truly excellent Holmes game. Perhaps someday.
While trying to capture the artistic and extremely detailed quality of graphics seen in many adventure games, Frogwares has succeeded in a number of areas. On many [...]
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Alexander McCall Smith recently offered up this nice appreciation of Holmes – a pointed one, noting how the Holmes stories break so many of the perceived “rules” of mystery fiction. And they’re all the better for it.
Holmes, in fact, is a mass of contradictions. If a writer today described a character as being a fine [...]
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Julian Barnes’ “Arthur & George” is turning up on lots of year-end best-of lists. Noel Murray at The Onion A.V. Club says it “proves that the turn-of-the-century historical thriller is still eminently capable of illuminating its times and reflecting ours.” The Arizona Republic said the book portrays both men “with quiet sympathy in a book [...]
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