There’s been all sorts of talk about whether or not a certain young wizard is going to be dispatched on July 20th at midnight. And in all of that talk, there have been numerous comparisons to the death of a certain famous sleuth, a death that turned out to be greatly exaggerated.
It’s probably a good [...]
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Not according to this site, which says Sherlock was perfectly within his rights to use cocaine and morphine.
The recreational use of these substances was not addressed until the (non-binding) International Opium Committee, which convened in Shanghai in 1909. The later International Opium Convention, held in The Hague in 1912, set down guidelines for controlling the [...]
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From Focus and Frogwares, the people that made “Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened,” comes news of another 3D Holmes adventure …
Having grappled with the machinations of a cult of Cthulhu in his last PC adventure (Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened), the world’s greatest detective is now ready to challenge Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief. Lupin, a character [...]
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