Out of Context Podcast QuotesMay 23
"Sherlock Holmes beats people up." - JOSH CLARK, Sherlock Holmes: The Man, The Myth, Stuff You Should Know #StuffYouShouldKnow #SYSK #SherlockHolmesDay #JoshClark
Naomi NovikMay 23

🔎 Deerstalker hats & calabash pipes out! 🕵️May 22nd is #SherlockHolmesDay & we’re giving away signed copies in two paperback editions of BURIED DEEP, which includes a short story featuring one of the few characters to outsmart Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic super sleuth: “I have been beaten four times – three times by men and once by a woman.” 💄👠

See image for giveaway details. Ends on Sunday, May 24.

Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org

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The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureMay 22

The 12 best Sherlock Holmes stories, according to Arthur Conan Doyle – via @literaryhub

In March 1927, 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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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/

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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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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/

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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

Curently on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3

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BBC World Service - World Book Club, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Join Harriett for a special episode exploring the legacy of Sherlock Holmes.

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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/

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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…”

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

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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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