Hi there everyone- I have a question that is rather off topic- but someone here might have an answer. I was cleaning out my secretary desk today, and in one of...
Kristin, I googled "sherlock holmes card game" (no quotation marks) and got a number of hits. I didn't have time to explore the hits thoroughly, and I don't...
Dorothy- That's a great idea. I will google the game, and copy the instructions. Now- I just need to find people who will play an antique card game based...
"There is certainly a diversity of opinions on when the romance between Russell and Holmes began!" I've tought more about this poll, and as always am struck by...
Actually, you could select multiple options when the poll was open, and I pretty much expected most people answering would do so, since there really were 3...
I am a new member (a newbe?). My wife started me on the Mary Russell books, as she did on Laurie King's Martinelli books. (She started me on To Play the...
Interesting question on whether LRK had permission from the estate of Dashiell Hammett to use him as a character in LOCK. First, of course, Hammett was a real...
I believe, although I may be misremembering, that Hammet's descendants read LRK's draft and approved it, or something along those lines. I think that's...
Liz, if you remember where you read that, I'd love to know for sure. I know that Lillian Hellman was Hammett's literary executor, but she's gone now, too. And...
I know, from being married to a distant relative, that most of the Hammetts still live in Southern Maryland (they were one of th efirst families in the state)...
I apologize for the off-topicality. I'm working on a paper examining Lord Peter's role in WWI. I've examined a few scenes dealing with his post-war reactions....
Lord Peter began the war as a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade (which is not a brigade, but a regiment). He ended the war a major with a DSO (Distinguished...
Pringle, Robert W
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My dear bees, Currently, I'm proofreading a book with major classic articles or chapters on child development. It ranges from an interesting article by Charles...
Didn't he also have a problem with sending his men to their deaths---hence havinG Bunter show up and his joy when Lord Peter finally made a decision about what...
Didn't he also have a problem with sending his men to their deaths---hence havinG Bunter show up and his joy when Lord Peter finally made a decision about what...
Iam sure you are right about his reaction about sending people to the gallows. Bunter, I think, is the key link between the war and the future post-war world....
There are so many new/newish tales of WWI, particularly about the British experience. I have enjoyed Justice Hall, especially. There are the now five titles...
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Hi Jocelyn I love Justice Hall and I'm a fan of the Maisie Dobbs stories . There's an interesting discussion of DL Sayers and shell-shock at ...
At some point, I think in Monstrous Rgiment, is contemplating about how, due to physical injuries, mental injuries, and the horrendous death rate of the males...
I keeping with this topic, I'd like to recommend the Inspector Rutledge mysteries by Charles Todd. I haven't kept up with them, but they involve a Scotland...
Hi everyone - Someone mentioned Maisie Dobbs several months ago. I got the first book and loved it, read 2 more and have the 4th to go (a 5th is just now...
Two things happened in Britain: the Great War that killed off a substantial portion of the middle class and left many survivors ahocked by shell and gas, and...
Good reply... As a Vietnam Vet, I hope you will be careful of how you think, and speak, and write of my generation. Everyone who serves in virtually every war...
I haven't read the canon since I was a child, so I may have forgoten this aspect of Holmes' life, but when Russell speaks of Holmes' "lovely lost son", I...
All we know about the son is that he's "lost" -- an adjective Russell uses repeatedly MREG to describe the generation of men who went through the War and came...
Sabine Baring-Gould, I heard, was the first to suggest that Irene Adler was the mother of Holmes' child. (Maybe that's why S B-G figured so prominently in The...
To answer part of James's question. the notion of Holmes having a son is not canonical. But it's the subject of endless speculation and innumerable pastiches, ...
I was pouring a hot bath tonight, and before I got in, I ran to grab the book that I am currently reading. As I stepped into the tub, the irony made me laugh...
