All posts tagged "Sherlock Holmes"
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Crime Fiction
Trailer Watch: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Woman In Black, Chronicle
January 14, 2023This 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
November 6, 2022There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
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Best Books
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
November 1, 2022Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
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Movies
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
August 20, 2022Ritchie, 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
August 3, 2022Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
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Literary Themes
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 15, 2022These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
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Crime Fiction
Gentlemen and Players
June 19, 2022Yet 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
May 30, 2022The 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
May 18, 2022Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 13, 2022Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...