NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Mystery Writers of
America (http://www.mysterywriters.org) is proud to announce on the 198th
anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2007
Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction,
television and film published or produced in 2006. The Edgar Awards will be
presented to the winners at [...]
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Even though the Holmes Museum in London is technically located at 239 Baker Street … well, we must allow a little bit of room for artistic license. The address is one of several myths surrounding the Great Detective dispelled in this short, worthwhile article.
“Let’s talk about the meerschaum pipe he never smoked, the deerstalker cap [...]
Filed under: Readings on April 24th, 2007 | No Comments »
On the one hand, this would seem like a no-brainer – you would think Holmes would have been an avid fan of this most logical of games. But according to this editorial in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the game (er, chess, that is) is only mentioned once in the canon, and not in the most [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on April 22nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Boy, this is strange. I’m not totally sure I get it, and in fact I’m not sure there is much of anything to get.
And yet, I’m strangely drawn to today’s installment of Ryan North’s “Dinosaur Comics,” which finds a T-rex who wants to write a Holmes pastiche. It will be called “Sherlock Holmes and the [...]
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Remember the great board game 221B Baker Street? Well, of course you do, and chances are you still play it from time to time. But you might not be as familiar with the DOS version of the game, which is now “abandonware” and available for download here.
It was released by Datasoft in 1987 – yes, [...]
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The witty folks at The Morning News have combined two of my literary passions – Sherlock Holmes and the TV show Lost – in this very enjoyable read. It’s worth sticking with to the end.
“We interviewed the family of the deceased,†Lestrade continued. “Apparently the dead man kept his regular routine this morning, leaving his [...]
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Today would have been the 100th birthday of Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa. His work included the scores for great films like Double Indemnity, Spellbound, The Lost Weekend and Ben Hur.
But up until now, you haven’t been able to hear the full score he wrote for Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. That [...]
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It’s times like these that I really, really wish I had enormous sums of disposable income: a handwritten, original copy of “The Adventures of the Three Gables” is about to be put on the auction block at Sothesby’s. It’s expected to fetch at least a quarter of a million pounds.
Marsha Malinowski of auctioneers Sotheby’s said: [...]
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