A Sherlockian’s Farewell to House MD— Page Moved
By Lyndsay Faye
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From the day I started watching House MD on November 16, 2004, right up until this last month when the eighth (and final) season finished delicately extricating my heart with a dull ice cream scoop, the show has been a mainstay of my highly selective television viewing. Because, see, I don’t have a television. My…
‘… The accounts of these cases are too bound up with events in my personal life which, although they may provide a plausible commentary to much of my dealings with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, can never be made public while he or I remain alive …’ “Rescued from oblivion by Rohase Piercy,” here are two previously…
As of May 2011, Guinness World Records claimed that Sherlock Holmes was “the most frequently recurring character on screen,” having been portrayed in 238 films. As far as books that chronicle Holmes and Watson’s adventures, there have been countless volumes published, in addition to those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Trying to determine how many…
The other day we were discussing characters we would like to see in fiction and I mentioned that I would love to see a series starring Oscar Wilde. Today, I am much in the debt of friend and co-worker Chris Morgan for finding me the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries by Gyles Brandreth. The first book…
“A door opened and shut. An instant later, steps crept down the passage – steps which were supposed to be silent, but which reverberated harshly through the empty house….” The Empty House was published in 1903, the first of the so-called “Return of Sherlock Holmes” stories which were written after Conan Doyle had already killed…
The other day, I was cruising the site of one of our bloggers, William I. Lengeman III, and I came across an absolutely astounding post describing a movie I simply must see. The post title alone gives me chills: The Worst (Robert) Sherlock Holmes Movie Ever? I adore bad movies. I am addicted to them,…
I never intended to make an informal survey of the many appearances of Harry Houdini in the annals of mystery fiction. It just sort of happened that way. Quite frankly, until I began investigating the matter I didn’t realize that he was a character so beloved by mystery writers—and writers in general, even celebrity authors…
There’s nothing like a good crime story, or is there? What about a good thriller or mystery… and what’s the difference anyway? I did a little research. According to some; mysteries are cerebral and likened to solving a puzzle; thrillers are emotional with excitement moving at a breakneck pace; crime stories are plot driven about…
My opinions are subject to revision, of course, but when first hearing the official news (hat tip: digital spy) about CBS’s Sherlock-series pilot late last week, I thought, UGH! Can’t possibly NOT suck. I know, I know, there are talented Justified alums involved, but that doesn’t guarantee lightning strikes twice. Are any of these hard-core…