MWA NorCal3d ago

In Berkeley tomorrow? Drop by the MWA booth, or see our speakers at BABF tomorrow! www.baybookfest.org

Two great panels, too!

https://www.baybookfest.org/session/murder-in-mysterious-places/

https://www.baybookfest.org/session/mystery-writers-unmasking-larger-issues/

#crimeWriting #crimeFiction #mystery

Murder in Mysterious Places - Bay Area Book Festival

The talented woman sleuths of this panel have once again found themselves in unexpected conundrums that hit close to home. Join Parisian PI Aimée Leduc on her quest for innocence after being framed for the murder of her daughter’s father in Murder at la Villette, the 21st installment of Cara Black’s New York Times bestselling […]

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

In March 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…

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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

The 12 Best Sherlock Holmes Stories, According to Arthur Conan Doyle

In June of 1891, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first short story featuring everyone’s favorite consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, was published in The Strand Magazine. (A Study i…

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.”

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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #TrueCrime

Arthur Conan Doyle and the Scottish Dreyfus Affair

I may well have shrieked, and I know I nearly dropped the book, though in a crowded New York subway car neither act would have drawn much notice. The time was the mid-’80s. The place was the downto…

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #Spiritualism

Leah Price · One Chapter More: Ectoplasm

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”

—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon

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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #noir

Sherlock Holmes, Hardboiled Detective

I love me a good Sherlock Holmes adaptation. But something that always bugs me about film and television Sherlockiana (especially the more modern, more big-budget adaptations) is how quickly they g…

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective

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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #TV #television #film #cinema #adaptation

The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked

We’re ranking Sherlock Holmes performances. One hundred of them. Not Sherlock Holmes adaptations, but the representations within them of Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, you might think that you…

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames, including Sherrington Hope…”

—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective – & why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay

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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name

His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition. –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” * * * * “A tangled skein,” Art…

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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed Crime fiction forever

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Crimewriting #CrimeFiction #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle

BBC World Service - The Forum, Arthur Conan Doyle: The man behind Sherlock Holmes

The life of doctor and literary star Arthur Conan Doyle.

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MystiMay 22

finally after a LOOOONNNNNGGGGG time, every writing session leaves the page better than when I started. I feel energized, excited to start the next session again.

#CreativeWriting #writing #crimeWriting

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureApr 25

“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before” – @sarahweinman on the fiction of Josephine Tey

@bookstodon

https://lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-like-no-other-before-on-josephine-teys-the-daughter-of-time/

#Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #Crimewriting #Womenwriters #20thCentury

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

I wish I could remember when I first read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time—I must have been around twenty—but I certainly remember how much I loved it, which has only grown with every reread. I…

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