On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
— From “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
Sherlock Holmes’ Indian Daughter to Be Subject of New Deepa Mehta Film ‘Sher’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Asia #Global #News #DeepaMehta #Sher #SherlockHolmes
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sherlock-holmes-indian-daughter-deepa-mehta-new-film-1236350925/
We’ve just seen “Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act,” by David Stuart Davies, performed by Nigel Miles-Thomas, at the Ropetackle, #ShorehamBySea
My son, a 13-year-old Holmes buff, really enjoyed it, although he was confused by the different voices and repetition in the first scene, as all the characters are played by one man. Plenty of recognisable bits, knowing laughs and insight into Holmes’s feelings for his recently departed friend of 35 years. Small, friendly venue. #SherlockHolmes #theatre
His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself — so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity. And yet his first action, when the door had closed behind him, was to stagger against the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearth-rug.
— The entrance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., in “The Adventure of the Priory School”
“And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose — that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.”
— Sherlock Holmes, in “The Adventure of the Second Stain”
In sheer happenstance, I have just sighted a volume that Mr Holmes may have been deeply familar with.
Club Life of London:
With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropoplis, During the 17th, 18th and19th Centuries
by John Timbs F.S.A.
In Two Volumes
Published 1866 by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London
#SherlockHolmes #VictorianLondon #TheGreatWhen #JohnTimbs #RichardBentley #EighteenSixtySix
https://ia600102.us.archive.org/2/items/clublifeoflondon02timb/clublifeoflondon02timb.pdf
Smoking and Sherlock Holmes in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” (2005). #111Words #KazuoIshiguro #NeverLetMeGo #SherlockHolmes #Smoking #KathyH #DetectiveFiction https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/smoking-and-sherlock-holmes-in-kazuo.html
The special #Canucklehead 
#MYG edition of #TVMysteries w/ #GranadaHolmes starts at 8p ET tonight
@LK_877 @silverseasun @frommsb @heavydishongry @MatthewTitus88 @rsmon77 @WorkWithKirk @JoeWynne @secretlybatman @lilymarswrites @JanineFromPgh @culturalgutter @FabULiz @Kinetograph @howler0502 @Stellarkaye @adnerbia @bunnyhero @TheaSabin @kcarr2015 @ManWithPez @AndrewCFrancis @LilyDoe @d3sk @LisaMarieBowman @1an0maly and anyone else who likes #SherlockHolmes or knew Greg
https://mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/114224588361066760
All welcome for 2 eps of #GranadaHolmes with #JeremyBrett starting at 8:00pm ET tonight #WatchPartyAlert
#MYG Miss You Greg
https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/gregory-mccambley-1081916455
The #FriendsOfGregMcCambley #Canucklehead tribute on Tue, 3-25-25 #TVMysteries has some homemade (a\k\a glitchy) 2021 screen recordings from 
and the #SherlockHolmes eps THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL (s1e4) and THE NORWOOD BUILDER (s2e3), as suggested by Greg's brother a #OttawaTom @ottawatom.bsky.social
Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTGXYh23M58qjwO0anNakiTaRw0BHMJWk&si=i35l0CaasnU2Hgkt
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
— Sherlock Holmes, in “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”
I do not wish to be ungrateful to Holmes, who has been a good friend to me in many ways. If I have sometimes been inclined to weary of him it is because his character admits of no light or shade. He is a calculating machine, and anything you add to that simply weakens the effect.
— In “Sidelights On Sherlock Holmes", from Doyle's memoir _Memories and Adventures_
And this not so much for the sake of his reputations — for, indeed, it was when he was at his wits' end that his energy and his versatility were most admirable — but because where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded, and that the tale was left forever without a conclusion.
— From “The Yellow Face”
Wellington Repertory presented a new adaptation of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Jon Jury in mid-August 2024, and I absolutely loved it.
Especially awesome was the "set", which in essence was just a sloping wooden stage and lighting (even from below). But somehow, that's all that was needed, it totally worked.
“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”
— Dr Mortimer, in “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
"A Man Named Baskerville" placed fourth on the MX Publishing audiobook bestseller list for February (its debut month), and currently holds six 5-star reviews on Audible—
I'm so pleased about all of this. Voice talent Michael Langan did a superb job narrating the book.
https://mxpublishing.com/blogs/news/the-top-24-sherlock-holmes-audiobooks-in-february
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Named-Baskerville-Sherlock-Classic/dp/B0DXXMJJK4
“My small experience of cricket clubs has taught me that next to churches and cavalry ensigns they are the most debt-laden things upon earth.”
— Holmes, in “The Field Bazaar”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, *however improbable*, must be the truth?”
— Sherlock Holmes, in “The Sign of the Four”
Continuing my leisurely reread and reviews of the original Sherlock Holmes short stories. Just got to one of my all time favourites, "The Musgrave Ritual". Happy place. https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/tag/sherlock+holmes #Books #Bookstodon #reading #shortStories #SherlockHolmes
Standing on the run between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.
— The description of Lord Holdhurst, in “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty”
