What’s Your Favorite Sherlock Holmes Story? According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Sherlock Holmes is the “most portrayed literary human character in film & TV.” He fascinated the world when Conan Doyle’s stories first appeared, and today he’s still calling “the game is afoot” to Dr. Watson as they hail a hansom cab […]
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From Spenser to Sherlock Holmes: How authors deal with aging detectives…
From Spenser to Sherlock Holmes, how to keep detectives young while writing a book a year…. Age is a tricky concept in crime novels. What I’m referring to is the age of the sleuth figure. When this sleuthing person gets involved in tracking a killer, it’s essential for the sake of believability that he or […]
The Real Sherlock Holmes
The Real Sherlock Holmes On a cold winter’s evening in December 1886, Arthur Foster left the Queen’s Theatre, Manchester, England, with a pocket full of gold and a bejeweled lady on his arm. Stepping carefully through the throngs of hawkers and street sellers, the striking couple hailed a hansom cab. As they settled inside the […]