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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection | Arthur Conan Doyle

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I‘ve finished listening to over 70 hours of Sherlock Holmes stories narrated by Stephen Fry! This is a wonderful audio collection. I‘m not really sure what my plan is now for finishing the rest of the stories as I‘ve gotten so used to my weekly listen.

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes #Sherlocked #audiobook

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Holmes ! Looking at you @dabbe 😁

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dabbe You know I am #sherlocked! Thanks for sharing! 🤩♥️🤗 4d

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Ruthiella Ooh! And @Bookwomble 4d

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dabbe #sherlocked 🖤 1w

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Morr_Books

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

If you are in or around the Houston area, definitely go see Todd Waite's final Alley performance. He is and has always been amazing as Sherlock. I thoroughly enjoyed this show. ❤️

dabbe I wish I could! #sherlocked 🖤 1w

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AnnCrystal

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Pretty Books - Painted Editions): A Collection of Holmes Adventures | Arthur Conan Doyle

Anyone else excited about this new series? 📺🔍🧐🔎🥳 Seems like the show is going to have a strong female leading character.

Haven't been this excited about a Sherlock book (influenced) to TV adaptation since the 2016 Houdini & Doyle, which was a historical-fiction based on Doyle's relationship with Houdini and not so much about Doyle's character, Sherlock.

@dabbe
#Sherlockians
#sherlocked
#sherlockholmes

#californiananncrystal 📚💫📺🥳💝.

dabbe I'll have to check this out! Thanks for the heads up! 🤩😍🤩 2w

AnnCrystal @dabbe 😎👍🏼 I believe this begins on the 16th on the CW channel 📺💝. (edited) 2w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵👍🏻💙 2w

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Untitled | Anonymous

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Day 1. Detective
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Eggs Classic👏🏻 2w

dabbe #sherlocked! 🤩😍🤗 2w

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dabbe

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#LadyCarfax

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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eeclayton I wasn't happy with this ending at all. The lady clearly made a choice and it should have been respected. 2w

CogsOfEncouragement Yeah…Almost like Doyle met his word count and said That‘s it for me! From other stories of how SH has acted, I fully expected him to stick around long enough to make sure she was set up safely somewhere again. This seems out of character to me. 2w

Librarybelle Agreed, @eeclayton . This set off so many alarm bells. 2w

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Cuilin At this point in the cannon I‘ve become accustomed to Sherlock‘s frantic energy in an investigation and then leaving at the end. It‘s not justice or closure he is interested in but the solving of a puzzle. 2w

AnneCecilie I agree @eeclayton and @Librarybelle 2w

eeclayton @Cuilin That's a great point. 2w

dabbe @eeclayton @CogsOfEncouragement @Librarybelle @Cuilin @AnneCecilie ... all excellent points. The frustrating thing is that we only know Green's side of the story of his and L. Carfax's relationship. We never get to hear a peep from her, and we leave her in a drugged state with her STALKER! 😱 This is beyond brutal for Holmes, but I agree, @Cuilin, his only interest is the puzzle itself. Once it's solved, time to move on. Cold machine indeed. 2w

CogsOfEncouragement @Cuilin @dabbe I always think of The Adventure of the Copper Breeches, about the governess who could find no work, so takes a horrible placement…and at the end of everything Watson accuses SH of not caring once the puzzle is solved, but then immediately mentions she found employment as head of a private school with considerable success. ⬇️ 2w

CogsOfEncouragement IMO we are to conclude SH situated her there and took no credit for the doing so. This is for us to be “smarter than Watson” again to know this. I like to think that is how SH behaves. I respect your view on him as well. 2w

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement that‘s so interesting, he often has information that he does not share with Watson therefore doesn‘t make it on the page then this is absolutely plausible. The question becomes why would Doyle not have his hero shine in this way? 2w

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Excellent point. In that story, it is highly plausible that Holmes did find a placement for her in BEECHES. In many other stories he shows acts of goodwill as well. IMO, though, not in this one. At all. Perhaps even our hero detective can have a bad hair day or story. 🤣 And my overall view of Holmes is that I am completely #sherlocked and always will be. I adore him, just not in this story. 2w

CogsOfEncouragement @cuilin Do you think the original readers read the stories over and over, waiting for the next? Subscription wide book club? Doyle knew this? He dropped a couple hints about SH doing nice things and let the reader enjoy being in on the secret? Just like his relationship with Mrs. Hudson. I think SH did a BIG thing for her and SH & Hudson have a relationship W doesn‘t quite understand - but the reader can. Maybe? 2w

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement I truly love to think and believe that and it continues to this day! All the Sherlockian clubs around the world prove that. And a lot of them reread the stories (as if they were real) and discuss every minute detail. I'd love to be a wallflower at a meeting of the Baker Street Irregular Society! 🤩 2w

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Bookwomble

The Sherlock Holmes File | Michael Pointer

One of the chapters is an account of the first Sherlock Holmes Society of London's pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland in 1968.
The society Flickr account has an album of photos showing their journey, in costume, from London to Switzerland, including several luminaries of Holmesian studies. It was gratifying to find a couple of photos including Michael Pointer.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shsl/albums/72157640063611234/
#Sherlocked

Bookwomble The photo shows the pilgrims meeting Adrian Conan Doyle at his Swiss home, Chateau de Lucens. Holmes is Society member Tony Howlett, and as Irene Adler, Dominique Joos, an actor hired for the role, who performed in a “whodunit“ scene at the Society banquet in Geneva. (edited) 1mo

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Bookwomble

The Sherlock Holmes File | Michael Pointer

"If Conan Doyle had really meant business when he attempted to get rid of Sherlock Holmes, he should have killed off Dr Watson. That's the key to it. Without Watson there really can be no Holmes."

Pointer giving the good doctor his due recognition, both as a character & as a narrative device.

Of all the Watsons, Nigel Bruce's incarnation (despite the un-Canonical bumbling) is always the one that springs to my mind.
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes #Sherlocked

bibliothecarivs Okay, Bruce's Watson is the one that comes to mind, but which is your favorite portrayal in film/ television? 1mo

Bookwomble @bibliothecarivs While Jeremy Brett is my favourite Holmes (though only a hair's breadth ahead of Basil Rathbone), and both Watson actors in that production were good, neither emanated the warmth of character that Bruce installed in his part. It's not always an accurate depiction, but captures Watson's faithfulness, dependability and vulnerability. So, it is Nigel Bruce for me 😊 1mo

Bookwomble @bibliothecarivs Pointer's opinion of Bruce's Watson is: "regrettable"! I accept, myself, that he's not a good representation of Doyle's Watson, but I guess he seeped into my consciousness as a child. My least favourite Watson portrayals are Jude Law and Martin Freeman, as they always present to me as being themselves pretending to be the part they're playing, rather than actually being the part. 1mo

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bibliothecarivs Fascinating. Thanks for sharing, my friend. 1mo

dabbe Nigel & Basil! 🖤🖤🖤 1mo

The_Book_Ninja I used to watch the Rathbone Sherlocks when I was a kid too and absolutely loved them. Imagine my surprise when I eventually read a book and there was no incredulous buffoonery from Watson. I now consider Bruce‘s Watson as beyond ridiculous 1mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Not at all accurate, but I'm still fond of him 😊 1mo

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Bookwomble

The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes | Michael Pointer

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I really enjoyed Pointer's knowledgeable critiques and reviews of the Great Detective's appearances off the page and on the boards, the silver screen, the airways, the idiot box, and vinyl.

It could have been a dense info-dump, but Pointer cleverly distilled that into the 80-odd pages of Catalogue at the back of the book, delivering 116 initial pages of deftly handled history and anecdotes.
On the strength of this, I've ordered a copy of his 👇

Bookwomble ... "The Sherlock Holmes Files", which, by the same publisher within a year of the present book, I trust doesn't do much recapping of this material.
David & Charles published a series of Holmesian studies in the early to mid '70s, which all seem to be fairly highly rated. It would be a pleasant thing were some other titles to appear on my shelves ?:
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/389564/David-and-Charles-Holmesian-Studies 1mo

Bookwomble #NoPlaceLikeHolmes #Sherlocked 1mo

dabbe #stacked #sherlocked 🤩 1mo

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