All posts tagged "Sherlock Holmes"
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Mystery
Trailer Watch: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Woman In Black, Chronicle
May 23, 2024This week is rife with compelling but problematic new trailers. Compelling but problematic but informative. Without...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
March 19, 2024There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
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Espionage
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
March 15, 2024Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
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Movies
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
January 9, 2024Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
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Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
December 24, 2023Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
December 6, 2023These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
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Mystery
Gentlemen and Players
November 10, 2023Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Key to the Case
October 19, 2023The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
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Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
October 4, 2023Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
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Television
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
September 28, 2023Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...