The childhood home of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle has been rescued and transformed to house children with special needs.
The neglected cottage and garden adjacent to the Cameron Toll shopping centre in Edinburgh, where the author reputedly saw his first fairies, will be home to Dunedin School for educationally fragile children.
The cottage, known as Liberton Bank House, is a listed building and forms part of a site acquired by the Kilmartin Group for the construction of a new medical centre.
The developer assumed the role of good fairy when it agreed, subject to sufficient funds being raised by the school trustees and their partners, to gift the cottage to Cockburn Conservation Trust (CCT) for a nominal £1.
The Texas Radio Theatre Company is gearing up for a new production of “The Final Problem,” and it has spawned some real generosity on their part – they’re gradually releasing recordings of their previous Holmes productions in MP3 format. Here’s their 2002 performance of “The Red-Headed League.” It’s a full-cast recording, in front of a live audience.
The Philadelphia Inquirer just ran a nice story on a handful of local Sherlockian groups, some hardcore, others free-spirited and focused on the fun aspects of reading the canon.
“I do see them as influential,” Anderson said of the stories. “The idea that by observation and thought we can discover the truth is really powerful. It’s a basis of science, and it says your own emotions never color what you’re observing.”
Smith is working on his own adaptation, with plans to self-publish a novel – in the voice of side character Dr. James Mortimer – in April.
But most of the other members are more casual fans, and Smith said it’s fine if people get too busy to read that month’s story. The conversation strays anyway.
The Washington Post just ran a very positive review of the latest Sherlock Holmes computer game, “Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened,” in which everybody’s favorite detective goes up against the Cthulthu nasties of H.P. Lovecraft’s world.
Each conversation and clue is meticulously detailed in a notebook you carry. That is a good thing, because from time to time Holmes will turn to you (in your role as Watson) and ask where you think the duo should travel next. You have to type your answer, so paying attention is required.
The voice acting is excellent, with Holmes portrayed so well you will want to find clues just to trigger one of his calm monologues, in which he proves (again) that he is the smartest guy in the room.
May we also suggest “Another Bow,” the very first PC game to star Sherlock Holmes? It’s an old-school text adventure with glorious four-color graphics – and it’s abandonware, so you can download it and play it at no cost.
This is the attitude you need to approach Holdem with. You need to know that you are capable of discerning the hidden meaning behind any of your opponents’ actions. You need to remember to reason through every choice you make, as well as every choice your opponents make. Are they trying to hide something? Is that a bluff or a true bet? These questions can be answered when you apply deduction and reason to your game.
Rather than inventing forensic science, the Holmes stories instead presented the ’science of criminal detection’ in a positive light in Britain. This was particularly important after the 1859 Smethurst case, in which a leading toxicologist had been forced to admit that his earlier findings of arsenic in the tissues of a dead woman – which had led to the verdict that Thomas Smethurst was guilty of murder by poisoning – had been mistaken. An independent body of specialists later recommended the acquittal of the alleged murderer. After this, forensic science was viewed with suspicion by the British public for half a century. By creating a ’scientific detective’ who could demonstrate the logical steps leading to his invariably correct conclusions, Conan Doyle gave to the public a criminal catcher they could trust. Thus, Sherlock Holmes did not invent forensic science, but he probably did more than any other person, fictional or not, to portray it as a valuable tool in criminal detection.
The Texas Radio Theatre Company is gearing up for a new production of “
The Washington Post just ran a very positive review of the latest Sherlock Holmes computer game, “Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened,” in which everybody’s favorite detective goes up against the Cthulthu nasties of H.P. Lovecraft’s world.
Is there any aspect of life that can’t be enriched by filtering it through the Holmes lens? Apparently not. The web site Launch Poker recently ran a brief essay on