The World’s Greatest Detective sure does very little in the way of detecting sometimes, doesn’t he?
Continue reading#1069: Little Fictions – ‘The Engineer’s Thumb’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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#1066: Little Fictions – ‘The Speckled Band’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I think ‘The Speckled Band’ (1892) is perhaps the most fun Arthur Conan Doyle ever had writing about his most famous creation.
Continue reading#1060: Little Fictions – ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes revisiting the classics is a real chore, y’know? And sometimes, like today, it’s a complete delight.
Continue reading#1057: Little Fictions – ‘The Five Orange Pips’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tuesdays in May will see us recommence charting the complete short stories of Mr. Sherlock Holmes as written by his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Continue reading#1044: To Foe of Theirs I’m Deadly Foe… – My Ten Favourite Literary Detectives
Perhaps April Fool’s Day isn’t the best scheduling of this post, but the recent experience of dragging my way through Helen Vardon’s Confession (1922) by R. Austin Freeman got me thinking about the literary detectives I’d follow to hell and back, and I figured that it might be worth expanding upon.
Continue reading#1030: Little Fictions – ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#1027: Little Fictions – ‘The Red-Headed League’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#1021: Little Fictions – ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Today begins a long-range project in which I work through the 56 canonical short stories featuring Mr. Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…some of which I haven’t read in over 20 years. I’m fascinated by Holmes, especially when he is as his creator made him, and, while I doubt I’ll have anything new to say, I intend to enjoy rereading him from first to last.
Continue reading#1014: “I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories.” – A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Having recently enshrined Hercule Poirot as the official World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth, let’s return to the probable holder of the title of World’s Favourite Detective and the very first case to feature Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Continue reading#971: (Spooky) Little Fictions – Ghosts from the Library [ss] (2022) ed. Tony Medawar
With the annual Bodies from the Library collections, which have brought long out-of-print stories of crime and detection back to public awareness, proving rightly popular, editor Tony Medawar turns his attention to another facet of genre fiction with the Ghosts from the Library (2022) collection, in which authors (mostly) better known for their stories of crime and detection have a go at generating some supernatural chills instead.
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The Invisible Event 