The ups and downs of bringing back dead characters

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 [...]

Holmes’ drug use … was it illegal?

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 [...]

New videogame – Holmes vs. Lupin!

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 [...]