The Hound of the Baskervilles Redux A Versification   The Baskerville Estate Near the Moors and Grimpen Mire of Devonshire (As Envisioned by Nathalia Mikhalchuk, 1907)   Chapter One: Introduction to the Moors:“When the wind blows cold o’er the moors at night” (“Tam Pierce” English Folk Song)   The skies they were ashen and sober, […]

Is Sherlock Holmes Awake?       A dismal night in London town, a world that’s turning upside down, no hope of help from kin or crown – Is Sherlock Holmes awake? For I heard the Professor’s plan, the Colonel saw me when I ran, but Holmes will help me if he can – Is […]

Sherlock Holmes and The Closed Room Murder Mystery:  The Vicar’s Last Homily   Rev. Alfred E. Critchley, Vicar, St. Swithins BA, MA, Ed.D, DD, D.Min, J.C.D. 1824-1895   Preamble   “Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatchbox with my name, […]